132 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



h.-w. spots, and I have assigned acutipennis to Obertliiir's 

 species. The form of 7whara here described appears in 

 several collections over the label fjidllemei, but no specimen 

 I have seen agrees with Oberthiir's figure. The $ arma- 

 ture is identical with that of nohara nohara, but the ^ 

 plate is of a more rudimentary structure. In the 

 Staudinger collection there are two ^ ^ and three $ $ of 

 this form labelled oncrata, and the locality is given as 

 Delagoa Bay. Whether they came from Delagoa Bay or 

 not they are certainly not A. onerata, which is a some- 

 what obscure western species of which only about three 

 examples are known. 



The early stages of noliard. nohara are thus described by 

 Miss Fouutaine (/. c). 



" This larva feeds like several others of this same 

 genus on Wormsldoldia lonrjc'pediLnoulata, a small, wayside 

 Hower, salmon-pink in colour, which grew abundantly in 

 -and about Macequece, a village in Portuguese E. Africa. 

 The larva is most difficult to describe, longitudinally 

 ■streaked with pale and dark ochreous-yellow, finely outlined 

 with thin black lines, the spmes are also black ; they 

 feed by preference on the flower itself of their food-plant, 

 •the salmon-pink colour of wliich is almost identical in 

 tone with the salmon-pink colour of the freshly emerged 

 hutterflies. The pupa which is suspended, is very long 

 and thin in shape, wing cases pale slaty grey, veined with 

 black, and the abdomen cream colour with rows of 

 ochreous-yellow dots, encircled in black." 



According to Miss Fountaine's figure the ground-colour 

 of the larva is deep yellow. 



46. ACRAEA CHAMIiEZI. PI. IX, f. 10. 



Acraea chmnhezi. 



= A. nohara chambezi, Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 21, pi. 1, 



f. 5 (1910) ; Eltringham, Novit. Zool., xviii, p. 153 (1911). 

 N.E. Rhodesia (Chambezi Valley, near L. Young). 



^ . Expanse 52-58 mm. Wings rosy red inclined to orange 

 •at apex. Costa very narrowly black from a short distance 

 beyond base to apex. An apical and hind-marginal black border 

 about 1 mm. wide at apex and gradually tapering to hind angle. 

 A very slight black basal suffusion widest in lb. Black spots as 

 follows : — A linear transverse spot in cell above origin of nervule 

 2. A spot on discocelluhirs. Beyond cell a row of four (some- 

 times five) spot?. The first in 11 (often absent). The next two in 



