Afo'icaji Species of the Genus Acraca. VS 



Senegal ; S. Leone ; Liberia ; Togo ; Dahomey ; Lagos; 

 AsHANTi ; Gold Coast ; Nigeria ; 1. Old Calabar ; French 

 Sudan (Bammako to Wagadugu). 



A. neobule arabica, svibsp. 



= A. arabica, Rebel, Denksch. Akad. Wiss. Wien., 71, 2, p. 28, 



p. 29, f. 1, 2, p. 30, f. 3, 4, 5, pi. 1, f. 1, 2 (1907).* 

 S. Arabia. 



A. neobule neobule. 



^. Expanse 50-65 mm. F.-w. semi transparent, scales being 

 reduced in number and width, and near margins becoming 

 slender and bifid. Costa and apex more or less dusted with 

 black. A red basal suffusion, pale or bright, extending a little 

 beyond cell, slightly into area 3, and thence in a nearly straight 

 line to hind margin just beyond the angle. Often a slight 

 ochreous suffusion at apex. Black spots more or less distinct, 

 three beyond cell in 6, 5, and 4, one at end of cell on disco- 

 cellulars, one in cell rather beyond middle, one small in 3 near 

 to cell, one larger in 2 just below median, two in lb, one discal 

 and one subbasal, and a linear basal spot in same area. H.-w. 

 pale to bright red. A narrow hind marginal black border bear- 

 ing seven small spots of the ground-colour (the last in Ic doubled) 

 which are more completely enclosed than in horta, and may even 

 be obsolete. Basal and discal black spots varying greatly in size 

 and arranged as follows : — A discal row of eight, the first four in 

 7, 6, 5, and 4 approximately parallel to margin and decreasing in 

 size, the fifth slightly further from margin in 3, the sixth much 

 further from margin in 2, the seventh in Ic and in line with the 

 fifth, the eighth in lb in line with the sixth. A minute spot just 

 outside cell at origin of 6, a larger one on lower discocellular at 

 origin of 4, a subbasal spot in 7, one median and one subbasal 

 in cell, the rest confused on upperside in a basal suffusion. Near 

 inner margin the spots may be absent on upperside and only 

 showing through from beneath. Underside f.-w. scaled only at 

 costa. H.-w. as upperside but powdered with whitish' scales. 

 Marginal border edged inwardly with reddish and spotted with 

 white. Basal aggregation of spots enclosing three or four whitish 

 marks. Thorax black with whitish lateral spots. Base of 

 abdomen black with lateral yellow spots, remainder orange and 

 rather paler beneath. Claws unequal. 



$ . Expanse 50-70 mm. Resembles ^ but red replaced by 

 dull ochreous. Spots on h."-w. border usually larger. 



* A previous reference is given in tliis publication to the Sitz- 

 berichtigungen Akad. Wiss. Wien., p. 359 (1899). There is no trace 

 of such reference at the page and date given. 



