Africayi Sjpecies of the Genus Acraca. 167 



follows : — Discal spots. One in 7 about middle, one in 6 nearer 

 margin, and immediately beneath it or very sliohtly nearer 

 margin, a spot in 5 ; a spot in 4 close to end of cell, one in 3 

 about 2 mm. from end of cell, one in 2 near median, one in Ic 

 nearer margin, one in lb on a level with that in 2. 



A spot in 8 near precostal, two in cell, one in 5 on m.d.c. 

 and a dot on l.d.c, a subbasal in Ic, and one in lb rather more 

 distally placed, and a small spot slightly beyond the middle of 

 la. Some irregular black at base of wing and a basal black line 

 ■on inner margin. Head and thorax black with some reddi.sh 

 hairs, base of abdomen black with white lateral spots, and seg- 

 mental lines, remainder white with some yellow hairs at tip. 

 Claws unequal. 



The above description is from the cotype in the National 

 Collection. It appears to resemble the figure accompanying 

 Wichgraf s description, but all the figures on this plate are so 

 poor that they are of little value. 



The $ is described (I. c.) as having a smoky chocolate brown 

 ground-colour, the pale subapical area being represented by a 

 sharply defined white patch, somewhat suffused in area 3. The 

 ' spot in f.-w. cell distinctly larger. 



A specimen in the Oxford collection taken by Neave on 

 the Lofu River, N.E. Rhodesia, aarees with the ficr. and 

 description of rhodesiana ^ with tlio exception that the 

 f.-w. subapical area is ochreous instead of white. 



The locality given in the original description is merely 

 *' Rhodesia." The types are in Herr Wichgraf's collection, 

 and there is a ^ co-type in the London and Stockholm 

 Collections. 



62. ACRAEA MIMA. PI. XII, f. 8. 



Acraea mima, Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc.,p. 22, pi. i, f. 8, 9 (1910) ; 

 Eltringham, Af. Mim. Butt. p. 39, pi. iii. f. 5 (1910). " 

 N.E. Rhodesia (Serenje) ; Congo (Katanga). 



(J. Expan-se 56-60 mm. F.-w. greyish-black with black 

 costa and black apex. Base of costa and median powdered 

 with orange brown. Area la, lb, and sometimes 2 and lower 

 half of cell, suffused with salmon orange. A conspicuous white 

 discal bar about 3 mm. wide at costa in 10, 9, 6, 5, 4, and upper 

 part of 3. In one example this white area is dusted with red- 

 dish scales. Black spots as follows : — One in cell slightly beyond 

 origin of nervule 2. At end of cell an irregular spot tlie greater 

 part of which is beyond the discocellulars. A very sJiort distance 



