African Species of the Genus Acraea. 59 



The type of A. iturina, now in the Joicey collection, 

 is a <^ . Tlie locality in Grose-Smith's original description 

 is somewhat vaguely given as the "great forest of Central 

 Africa." Two ^ ^ in the Tring collection are labelled " 2 

 days from Fort Beni," and a third " 15 days " from the 

 same locality. A ^ in the Oxford collection was taken in 

 1905 in Uganda between Lakes Albert and Victoria Nyanza. 

 The species may readily be distinguished from other some- 

 what similar forms by the peculiarity of the h.-w, neuration. 

 This feature is faithfully represented in the figure in Rhop. 

 Exot, The claspers of the ^ armature have a peculiar 

 toothed structure on the inner edge. Aurivillius {I. c.) 

 suggests that iturina may be a variety of cerasa. It is 

 however quite a distinct species, as shown by the structure 

 of the male armature and the complete reduction of the 

 scales to hairs in the latter species. 



14. AcRAEA QUIRINA. PI. VII, f. 18. PI. XVI, f. (5. 



Acraea qiiirina, Fabricius {Pap.), Spec. Ins., 2, p. .36 (1781) ; 

 Godart (.4.), Enc. Meth., 9, p. 231 (1819) ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. 

 Zeit., 38, p. 193 (1893) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aetli., p. 86 

 (1898) ; Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 923 (1900) ; Aurivillius, 

 Ann. Mus. Genov., p. 19 (512), (1910). 

 = dice, Drury (Pap), 111. Exot. Ins., 3, p. 23, pi. 18, f. 3, 4 (1782) ; 



HerlDst, Nature. Schmett, 5, p. 24, pi. 83, f. .3, 4 (1792). 

 Trimen {A.), Rhop. Afr., Austr., p. 95 (1862). 

 Senegal; S.Leone; Lagos; Liberia; Togoland ; Gaboon; 

 Congo (Mukenge, Kassai, Kwidgwi I.) ; German E. Africa 

 (Dar-es-Salaam) ; British E. Africa (Kisuniu). 



A. quirina rosa, subsp. nov. 

 British E. Africa (Kitui, Rabai). 



A. quirina quirina. 



!^ . 34-50 mm. F.-w. transparent, the transparency^ caused 

 by the scales being reduced in width in the discal area and 

 represented by hairs in the marginal area. Base powdered 

 with black, and beneath the median a basal black streak extend- 

 ing nearly to a point below the origin of nervure 2. (Drury 

 describes the f.-w. as having a round black spot below this streak 

 but I have not seen an example with any spots on the f.-w.) 

 The h.-w. is rosy red dusted with black at the base and having 

 a broad well-defined transparent margin. Upon the red area 

 are numerous black spots usually better defined in the ^ (for 

 position of these spots see description of 9 )■ The underside 

 resembles the upper but there is a whitish basal suffusion in 



