134 Mr. H. Eltringhatn's Monograph of the 



of the hind-raargiaal black, and from both these forms ia 

 the very faint development of black on the nervules of the 

 f-w. apical area. 



47. ACRAEA MANSYA. PI. I, ff. 13 ((? ), 12 ( $ ). PI. IX, f. 11. 

 Acraea inansya, Eltringhain, Novit. Zool., xviii, p. 153 (1911). 

 = A. nohara cJiambezi (part), Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, 



p. 21 (1910). 

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



^ . Expanse 40-50 mm. Wings rosy red with black spots 

 and markings. To give a full description of this species would 

 be merely to repeat that of A. chambezi with the exception that 

 the spot in area 3 of li.-w. is nearly midway between end of cell 

 and the inner edge of marginal black and thus lies either imme- 

 diately below the spot in 4, or is more distally placed. This is 

 the only constant difference I have been able to discover. The 

 tarsal claws are unequal. A careful comparison of the six 

 examples before me with five of chamhezi also shows that the 

 pale spots on the marginal black on h.-w. underside are, though 

 variable in size, more rounded in viansya than in chambezi. 



Tlie specimens show a great variation in size. One (^ is 50 

 mm. in expanse and differs from the rest in having broader 

 black margins, a small discal spot in area 5 of h.-w., and two 

 small spots on h.-w. discocellulars. One c? li^^s a whitish 

 suffusion at base of lb in f.-w. In only one specimen is there 

 a subbasal spot in lb in f.-w. and that only on one side. The 

 type specimen has no spot in area 2 in f.-w. though this spot is 

 present in varying degrees of intensity in the other examples. 

 Two small ,^ t^ are dull orange ochreous instead of rosy red. 



9. The single female in the series is small (40 mm.). The 

 wings are dull smoky ochreous, with a tendency to orange in 

 the apical area. All the spots in f.-w. except that on disco- 

 cellulars are l)Ut faintly indicated on the upperside. The 

 abdomen is black above with lateral white spots, and yellowish 

 white beneath, and the "seal" is somewhat similar to that 

 described by Trimen in the $ onerata. In this 2 and in 

 three of the (J (^ the f.-w. discal row of spots forms a nearly 

 straight line across the wing, in the others the line is angulated 

 though not so sharply as in A. chambezi. 



In examining the eleven examples of Neave's " nohara 

 chambezi" in the Oxford Museum, my attention was at- 

 tracted to the small ochreous $ above described and from 

 that to the small males which appeared to correspond with 



