1 24 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monogra'ph of the 



coloured for the wet season forms is apt to be a little 

 nnsleading. The dry season forms are certainly less 

 spotted than the wet, also the actual tone of colour i& 

 usually paler, but many of them have a rather bright 

 pink suffusion, whilst the wet season forms though mure 

 heavily coloured are generally of a less rosy tint. A fine 

 series taken by Neave in Nyassaland, mostly at an 

 elevation of about 4,000 ft., contains examples taken in 

 March, and also in June and July. Nearly all the former 

 are of a rather dusky ground-colour whilst the latter have 

 a rosy pink suffusion. 



Though closely allied to A. violarnm I consider asema 

 to be a distinct species, botl) ^ and ^ genital armatures 

 showing marked differences. Moreover I have seen no 

 obvious intermediates. 



43. ACRAEA OMRORA. PI. IX, f. 5. PI. XV, f. 21. 



Acraea omrora, Trimen, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 24, note (1894). 

 = asema, Trimen, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 68, pi. 8, f. 9, 10, 10a 



(1891) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 95 (1898). 

 S. Angola ; Damaraland (Ovampo R.). 



A. omrora umbrata, subsp. 

 = violarum umbrata, Wichgraf, Berl. Ent. Zeit., p. 242, pi. 6, 



f. 5, 6 (1908). 

 = violarum omrora, Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 14 (1910). 

 N.E. Rhodesia ; Katanga. 



A. omrora omrora. 



^. Expanse 40-60 mm. F.-w. dark ochreous with a slight 

 basal black suflusion and a very little black at apex continued 

 as a fine marginal line to hind angle. Black spots as 

 follows : — One large transverse spot in cell, and a spot on disco- 

 cellulars. Beyond cell a transverse row of three spots in 6, 5, 

 and 4, of which the second is slightly more distally placed. 

 Beneath them and still more distal a spot in 3. A submarginal 

 series of five small spots, the first in 5, the second in 4 rather more 

 distal, and the third in 3 still nearer margin, the fourth and fifth 

 in 2 and lb are at the same distance from margin as the third, 

 and that in lb is doubled. A spot near base of area 2, beneath 

 it but rather nearer margin a spot in lb, and a double spot near 

 base of same area. 



H.-w. with ground-colour as in f.-w. and having a black hind- 

 marginal border about 3 mm. wide which tapers to a point at 

 anal angle. A slight black basal suffusion and some of the 

 black spots of underside reproduced though most are obsolete. 



