African Species of the Genus Acraca. 105 



by the form brun7iea and by intermediates. The white 

 or typical form appears only to occur in Angola, but is 

 there accompanied by the hrunnca form and by inter- 

 mediates. Thus strictly speaking astrigera is a subspecies 

 in relation to the typical pseudolycia whilst hrunnea is a 

 form of both. 



The male genital armature of all these forms is the 

 same, but differs from that of anernosa and wehvitschii. 



35. ACRAEA TURNA. PI. VIII, f. 9. 



Acraca turna, Mabille, Pet. Nouv. Ent., 2, p. 158 (1877) ; 

 Hist. Nat. Mad. Lep., 1, p. 99, pi. 12, f. 8, 9 (1885-7); 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 95 (1898). 



f. marmorata, Smith & Kirby (A. marmorata), Rhop. Exot., 

 19 (Acraea), p. 9, pi. 3, f. 7, 8 (1892); Aurivillius, 

 Voeltzkow Exp., p. 315 (1909). 

 Madagascar (Morondava, Tulear, Mahobn). 



(J. Expanse about 60 mm. Wings creamy white with sepia 

 black spots and markings. F.-w. base sutTused with sepia 

 extending to two-thirds the length of cell, slightly into area 2, 

 in upper part of lb nearly to middle, and slightly less in la. 

 Costa dusted with sepia. An apical and hind-marginal border 

 about 5 mm. wide at apex narrowing to about 2 mm. along 

 margin to hind angle and bearing ochreous internervular spots. 

 A small spot in cell rather before middle followed by a larger 

 obliquely transverse spot, and visually a black mark on disco- 

 cell ulars. Beyond the cell a discal band of spots, wide at costa, 

 becoming narrower posteriorly, and ending (in area 3) in a 

 large rounded spot. A large spot in 2 close to median. A sub- 

 marginal and a subbasal spot in lb. H.-w. with a slight basal 

 suffusion and a hind-marginal border about 4 mm. wide, the 

 inner edge of which is rather indistinctly defined but with a 

 marked indentation of the ground-colour in area 4. On this 

 border and close to margin is a row of seven minute inter- 

 nervular white spots. Margin slightly serrated and fringes 

 spotted with white. A discal row of eight spots, the first four 

 (in 7, 6, 5, 4) lie almost in a straight line from middle of costa 

 to middle of hind margin (sometimes this line of spots has a 

 slight outward curve). The fifth spot is in 3 and further from 

 margin, tlie sixth in 2 near median, the seventh and eighth (in 

 Ic and lb) nearer margin. The basal and subbasal spots are 

 more easily seen on underside, but those in cell and Ic are 

 well developed above. 



