African Species of the Genus Acraea. 177 



ppedes. In the ^ the h.-w. black margin is rather ill-defined 

 inwardly and beneath has heavy black arches enclosing whitish 

 spots. The 5 is like the ^ but has the h.-w. margin broader, 

 and more suffused, and is without a white subapical bar in f.-w. 

 Examples taken by Neave in the Iringa District, German E.Africa, 

 in December (wet season) show that the 9 of this subspecies does 

 not become black in the wet season, the ground-colour being much 

 the same as in the ^ . 



A curious aberration of the 9 '^^'^^ taken by Neave in the 

 Luangwa Valley in Aug. 1910. The ground-colouring re- 

 sembles that of the first form above described, except that the 

 apical black and the subapical white are contiguous. Tlie spots 

 are reduced to one (large) in middle of f.-w. cell, and a black 

 mark on discocellulars. In h.-w. there is a spot in cell and one 

 at base of 6 and 5. On underside the h.-w. marginal border 

 consists merely of a thin double black line broken by a black 

 mark on end of each nervule. 



A. oncaca is an abundant species and Neave records it 

 as common at all seasons in the Luangwa Vallev. The 

 male armature is quite distinct in form. The species 

 has been much contused with A. douhledayi, Gu«^r., from 

 which, however, it is quite distinct. 



66. ACRAEA EQUATORIALIS. PI. XII, f. 6. PI. XV, f. 28. 



Acra^ea equatorialis. 



= A. douhledayi efpuitorialis, Neave, Novit. Zool., 11. p. 327 



(1904) ; Eltringham, Novit. Zool., 18, p. 151, note (1911). 

 British E. Africa (Kisumu). 



A. equatorialis anaemia, subsp. nov, 



= A. douhledayi equatorialis, Aurivillius, Sjostedt's Exped., 

 p. 4 (1910). 



British E. Africa (Kikuyu Escarpment, Campi-ya-Simba, 

 Rabai, Zanzibar, Pemba I.); German E. Africa (Kilimandjaro). 



A. equatorialis equatorialis. PI. II, f. 10 ((^), f. 11($). 



(J. Expanse 46-48 mm. Wings rather lightly scaled, delicate 

 pinkish ochreous. Costa, apex, and hind margin very narrowly 

 black, slightly broader at apex. Just inside this black border, 

 a narrow band of orange divided by the black ends of nervules, 

 and followed inwardly by a grey area bearing black inter- 

 nervular rays. Black spots as follows : — One in cell at or just 

 before origin of 2, one on upper part of discocellulars, a row of 

 five beyond cell, the first in 10, often very small or obsolescent, 

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