African Species of the Genus Acraea. 95 



an oblique transverse bar of coalescent black spots extending 

 from costa to nervule 4, followed by a spot in area 3, which 

 may be very minute or so large as to be confluent with those 

 above it. In area 2, a little beyond origin of nervule 3, a spot 

 of very variable size (sometimes absent). In lb immediately 

 below this there may be another spot. (In examples from 

 Mombasa these two spots are nearly always large and well 

 developed.) 



H.-w. brick red. A fairly well-defined basal black patch, 

 extending to nearly half the length of cell. A hind-marginal 

 black border of very variable width (4 to 10 mm.) the inner 

 edge of which may be well defined or much suffused. Rarely 

 seven minute whitish subniarginal dots. In one or two examples 

 before me there are a few minute discal spots, visible only on 

 the upperside, their position being the same as in A. astrigera. 



Underside. F.-w. Black markings as on upperside. Ground- 

 colour a little paler. The subapical area with a considerable 

 powdering of white scales. H.-w. Black markings as on upper- 

 side. Marginal band bears seven small white spots, that in 

 area Ic being doubled. In area lb close to inner margin a 

 narrow white streak. (Sometimes also in la.) Basal black 

 patch bears about eight or nine white spots. Discal area pale 

 pink bordered with darker pink basally, distally, and at inner 

 margin. (Along the inner edge of the black hind-marginal 

 border this dark pink nearly always forms a more continuous 

 band than in A. xoelwitschil.) Thorax black with white spots 

 above and below, abdomen black shading to deep ochreous 

 towards extremity, brown to ochreous beneath, and bearing 

 white lateral spots. Claws unequal. 



9 . 6.5-70 mm. Ground-colour above and below duller than in 

 ^ and h.-w. sometimes dusky brown. Abdomen usually blacker. 

 Other features as in ^ and with about same range of variation. 



A. aneniosa f. arcticincta, Butl. 



A form with an unusually narrow h.-w. hind-marginal 

 border. 



A. aneraosa f. internqda, Thur. 



The reddish yellow ground-colour extends into cell as a 

 narrow wedge-shaped spot in the black basal area of the f.-w. 

 from the subcostal towards the median, so that an elongated 

 quadrate spot about 2 mm. broad is thereby produced. (1 S 

 Uganda.) 



A. anemosa f. mosana, Suff. 



Discal spots absent in f.-w. (1 (^ in Berl. Mus.) 



