84(3 'Sh\ H. Eltringham's Monograj^h of flic 



SUPPLEMENT ON THE ORIENTAL SPECIES 

 OF ACBAEA. 



Key. (Applying to both sexes,) 



F.-w. more or less transparent ...... (a) 



F.-w. fully scaled (3) 



(«) F.-w. with numerous blackish spots . . . . • {^) 

 F.-w. without spots, or at most with a dark mark at end of 



cell ((0 



(?') H.-w. black spots but little confluent andromnche 



andromacJie (346) 

 H.-w. black spots tending to coalesce and form a patch 



((udnimaclte f. oe»une (347) 



II. -w. black spots very confluent and forming a black basal 



patch ..... andromaelw sanderi (347) 



(c) Subraarginal spots of h.-w. underside orange colour . . ((/) 

 Submargiual spots of h.-w. underside ochreous . . (e) 



(d) H.-w. cell on underside nearly devoid of scales 



mulnccana p<(rce (348) 

 H.-w. cell on underside almost entirely scaled with black 



mulnccana huoiennis (348) 



(e) H.-w. upperside with a broad diseal orange band 



mulnccana meyeri (348) 



H.-w. upperside without a diseal orange band . . . (/) 



(/) H,-w. upperside with a continuous, or almost continuous, whitish 



band ..... mohiccana dohertyi (348) 



H.-w. upperside with broken white band or only an inner 



marginal pale patch . . mohiccana moluccana (347) 



(;/) H.-w. beneath with basal black spots enclosing or tending to 



enclose pale markings vlolae (348) 



H.-w. beneath without basal spots or markings . vesta (349) 



1. ACRAEA ANDROMACHE. 



Acraea andnmiache, Fabricius (P((i). andromacht*), Syst. Ent., 

 p. 4eo (1775) ; Schmeltz, Verb. Zool. bot. Gesell. Wien., p. 593 

 (18G6); Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4, v. p. 3G1 (1870); 

 Schmeltz, Verb. Ver. Hamburg, ii, p. 186 (187G) ; In Journ. Mus. 

 (xodetfroy, xii, p. 174 (1877) ; Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., p. 85, 

 pi. 33 (1885) ; Ollift' (metam.), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, 1, p. 359 

 (1888); Mathew (metam.), Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 14.3, pi. VI, f. 14, 

 14a (1888) ; Fruhstorfer, Stettin Ent. Zeit., 68, 1, p. 21 (1907). 



* I have not hesitated to alter the last letter of the name. It is 

 printed undromacha in Syst. Ent., but there can be little doubt that 

 it is a misprint for andramache. 



