118 Mr. H. Eltringliam's Monograph of the 



base of 5, a subbasal in Ic, beneath it a spot in lb and a dot 

 in la, also a subbasal in the latter area. 



Head black with a reddish tuft between eyes and two on 

 collar. Thorax black above. Basal half of abdomen black 

 above with yellowish lateral spots, remainder orange. Claws 

 unequal. 



9 . Like $ but with much more rounded f.-w. and somewhat 

 less apical black. 



One ^ of this species from Angola in the collection of 



Herr J. N. Ertl has very little black at apex of f.-w., 



but the nervule ends are heavily scaled with black. The 



discal spot in h.-\v. area 5 is represented by a mere dot, 



and is absent in one wing on the upperside. 



I have seen only very few examples of this rare species, 

 though in many collections a form of A. nohara is labelled 

 ;guillemei. I was much struck with the rather peculiar 

 arrangement of the h.-w. spots in Oberthiir's guillemei, and 

 observed that this arrangement corresponded to that in 

 Lathy's actttipennis. When examining the Staudinger 

 •collection I found a single example agreeiui^ with Ober- 

 thiir's figure, but it was a % , and Oberthiir's specimen is 

 <lescribed as a ^. I therefore wrote to that author re- 

 questing him to again examine the type, and he informs 

 me that he thinks it is a ^. If this be so I cannot doubt 

 that acutipennis is its male, and I feel sure that the 

 acquisition of further material will confirm this conclusion, 



Wliether the substitution, in the Angola example, of 

 black nervules for the f.-w. apical patch as described above 

 be peculiar to that region I have not sufficient material to 

 decide. Staudinger's specimen is merely labelled W. Africa, 

 and so affords no assistance. 



The $ armature is quite distinctive. 



40. ACRAEA BtlTTNERI. PI. IX, f. 1. 



Acraea hUttneri, Rogenhofer, Ann. Mus. Wien., 4, p. 553, 



pi. 23, f. 8 (1889) ; Verb. z. b. Ges. Wien, 42, p. 575, f. 3 



(1892); Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 95 (1898); Neave, 



Proc. Zool. Soc, p . 14 (1910). 



= felina, Trimen, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 65, pi. 8, f. 5, 6 (1891). 



Congo State (Abuinonbasi, Bopoto, Stanley Falls, Luebo R., 



Kassai R., Popokabaka, Uboto, Lufupa P., Lubudi R.) ; N.W. 



Rhodesia (Kansanshi); Angola (Mkweta, Muene, Indali); 



Damaraland (Humbe, Cunene R., Omrora, Otiembora, 



Okavango R.). 



