African Species of the Genus Acraea. 319 



Underside. The tawny colour of a duller shade. F.-w. slightly 

 darkened at base. Between end of cell and the outer tawny 

 spots, as dark as on upperside, the spots paler, and the apical 

 and marginal area dull red brown. 



H.-w. with a faintly indicated dusky curved band beyond 

 cell extending from costa to inner margin. A few small black 

 dots variable in number, the specimen with the greatest number 

 of these shows one at base in 9 and Ic, one in 8, two in 7 the 

 second well beyond origin of nervule 7, two in cell, the second 

 before origin of nervule 2, faint indications of discal spots in 

 6, 5, 4, and 3, and two in Ic, lb, and la respectively. 



Head and tliorax black with two reddish tufts on collar, 

 abdomen black above with yellowish lateral white dots. 



The three other examples of this species now before me ditl'er 

 from that above described in the following manner : — 



(1) The central band of f.-w. is pale tawny, the spots ratiier 

 darker in shade. The h.-w. is pale creamy white, slightly 

 blackened at base. 



(2) All the light areas in both wings pale ochreous. 



(3) F.-w. central band and the whole of h.-w., except at base, 

 pale creamy white. F.-w. subapical spots pure white. 



This peculiar species seems to occur only on the east 

 side of L. V. Nyanza, two of the above examples being 

 labelled Nandi country, one " 60 m. along the Anglo- 

 German Boundary," the fourth Limoru, at mile-post 407 

 on the Uganda Railway, It is remarkable that they 

 should be all % $, and one is tempted to suppose that 

 they are merely one more form of the polymorphic A. 

 conjuncta. Though such may well be the fact, it seems 

 better, with the present paucity of material, to keep the 

 form separate. 



125. Acraea conjuncta. PI. XIV, f. 13. 



Acraea conjuncta, Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., v, p. 351 (1898) ; 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 117 (1898) ; Grose-Smitli, 

 Ehop. Exot. {Acraea\ vi, p. 22, pi. G, f. 11, 12 (1901). 

 f. intemqAa f. n. 

 9 f. silacea f. n. 

 $ f. mutata f. n. 

 $ f. pica f. n. 

 5 f. lutealba f. n. 

 $ f. stiff usa f. n. 



British E. Africa (Kavirondo, Nairobi, Aberdare Hills, 

 j\lt. Kokaujero). 



