African Species of the Genus Acraea. 57 



5 . Expanse 56 mm. Resembles ^ but red areas paler and 

 duller and less well defined outwardly. Spots of h.-w. underside 

 may be entirely absent. 



The types which are in the Tring collection were taken 

 at Kabras in British E. Africa. Co-types from Ran, Nandi 

 country. In his catalogue of the African Rhopalocera Prof. 

 Anrivillius placed this species as a synonym of A. humilis, 

 not having then seen either insect. Its nearest allies are 

 A.cerasa,2iXidi A. kraka. The similarity between the male 

 armature and that of the latter species entitles unimaculata 

 to be regarded as the eastern representative of kraka, 

 though at the same time the differences are sufficient to 

 give the two forms specific rank. Until recently the only 

 example known to me besides those in the Tring Museum 

 was a $ in the Oxford collection, taken by Dr. Wiggins on 

 the Uganda Ry. 15 m. N. of Kisumu. Latterly, however, 

 the species has been taken in some numbers by Neave in 

 British E. Africa, on the Yala R., N. Kavirondo. 



13. Acraea iturina. PI. VII, f. 13. 



Acraea itnrina, Gr. Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 465 (1890); 

 Smith & Kirby, Rhop. Exot., 21 {Acraea), p. 12, pi. 4, f. 3, 

 4 (1892) ; Griinberg, Sifzb. Ges. Nat. Fr., jj. 148 (1910). 



S. Cameroon ; Belgian Congo (near Ft. Beni) ; Uganda 

 (Sesse I, Albert to Victoria Nyanza). 

 A. itirrina kakana, subsp. 



Eltringham, Novit. Zool., xviii. p. 150 (1911). 



Abyssinia (Adie Kaka, Kaffa), 

 A. iturina iturina. 



(J . Expanse about 50 mm. F.-w. rather transparent clouded 

 with smoky brown along costa and hind margin. This cloud- 

 ing varies in intensity in different exarajjles. Transjjarency 

 caused by narrowing of the scales. The basal area having a 

 brownish red suffusion (probably bright red in fresh specimens) 

 extending nearly to end of cell and two-thirds of length of inner 

 margin. A large black spot in the cell somewhat beyond the 

 middle, and varying considerably in intensity. (One example 

 before me has a minute black spot in area 2, near the cell, and a 

 black powdering on the discocellulars.) A small black linear 

 spot at base of area lb. 



H.-w. red with semitransparent smoky brown margin con- 

 siderably widened near apex. Base black. Two black spots in 

 area 7 rather close together. A discal row of seven spots, the 

 first four usually smaller than the rest and the fourth nearer the 



