African Sjoecies of the Genus Acraea. 171 



$ . F.-w. entirely transparent as in male. Submarginal 

 orange spots only indicated. Spots in 3 and 2 absent or very 

 faint. H.-w. white with black basal suffusion. Marginal 

 border rather broader than in other forms. Spots as in typical 

 examjjles. 



Whether Somaliland specimens constantly differ as 

 above described I am unable at present to say. 



A. braesia f. regalis. 



cJ. Differs from typical e.xamples in having the f.-w. fully 

 scaled on the ujjperside. Deep brick red as far as the discal 

 spots. Just beyond these a pink subapical band followed by a 

 band of grey broad at nervule 6 and tapering to nervule 3. 

 Orange siibmarginal spots large and confluent. H.-w. brick I'ed 

 with the spots only faintly indicated. 



$ . The few ? $ I have seen resemble the ^ though rather 

 duller and paler. 



A. hracsia is a distinct and easily recognisable species. 

 There is a little variation in the shape of the ^ claspers, 

 and at one time I thought the differences were sufficiently 

 constant to warrant the separation of the regalis form 

 as a species, but a series of preparations shows that 

 whilst there is a general tendency for the armature of 

 regalis to differ slightly from that of hraesia such differ- 

 ences are not constant. The ^ plates are the same. The 

 regalis form may be regarded as being on the verge of 

 separating off as a species though at present it occurs 

 in company with the type form and is probably syngamic 

 therewith. 



64. Acraea doubledayi. PI. XI, f. 6. 



Acraea douhledmji, Guerin, Lefebre, Voy. Abyss., 6, p. 378 

 (1849) ; Reiche, Ferret and Galinier, Voy. Abyss., pi. 33, 

 f. 1, 2 (1849) ; Aurivillius, Ehop. Aeth., p. 99 (1898). 

 = gaekwo.ri, Em. M. B. Sharpe, Entomologist, 34, Suppl., p. 2 



(1901). 

 Abyssinia ; Somaliland. 



5 f. Candida, f. nov. 

 Nyam Nyam. 



A. doubledayi syhed, subsp. 



Em. M. B. Sharpe {A. .vjkesi), Entomologist, p. 279 (1902). 



= mystica, Neave, Novit. Zool. xi, p. 327 (1904). 



Uganda (Entebbe, Wadelai) ; British E. Africa (Kumi, 

 L. Salisbury) ; German E. Africa (Bukoba). 



