African Species of the Genus Acraea. 215 



H.-w. with some blackish at base followed in 2, Ic, lb, and la 

 by pale yellow. Traces of the underside black spots especially on 

 upper discocellulars. Central area pale tawny orange. Hind- 

 marginal border much broader than in {^, and having pale 

 orange marginal internervular spots. 



Underside a rather less brilliantly coloured replica of that of 

 the S. 



A. goetzi is nearly allied to A. excelsior, but there is a 

 slight difference in the structure of the ^ armature. 



•83. Acraea excelsior. PI. XIII, f. 12. 



Acraea excelsior, E. M. B. Sharpe, Proc, Zool. Soc, p. 192, pi. 17, 

 f. 3 (1891) ; Karsch, Ent. Nachr., 23, p. 371 (1897) ; Auri- 

 villius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 104 (1898). 

 Nyassaland (Zomba) ; German East Africa; British East 

 Africa (Kikuyu, Kenya). 



^ . Expanse 40-42 mm. F.-w. black, with a large central brick 

 red patch, edged with lemon-ochreous, and covering the greater 

 part of cell, a small portion of base of 3, more than half of 2, nearly 

 the whole of lb, and the central part of la. A sub-marginal 

 band of lemon ochreous spots divided only by the nervules 

 in 9, 6, 5, and part of 4. 



H.-w. with a rather clearly defined black basal suffusion, its 

 •outer edge bounded by a straight line at right angles to inner 

 margin and traversing cell just beyond the middle. A conspicu- 

 ous black linear spot on upper part of discocellulars, above 

 which in 7 is a deep crimson mark marginally powdered with 

 black. Central portion of wing leraon-ochreoui?, darker from 

 ■costa to nervule 3, followed by a black hind-marginal border, 

 the inner edge of which runs parallel to apical margin as far as 

 3, where it becomes suddenly wider and runs straight to the 

 inner margin. 



Underside. F.-w. The red area corresponding to that-above, 

 •costa ochreous dusted with black, remainder black as on upper- 

 side with a similar but slightly larger lemon-yellow subapical 

 patch. Reddish orange marginal internervular marks. 



H.-w. lemon-yellow with a black hind-marginal border as on 

 upperside. On this border is a series of broad deep crimson 

 internervular rays each edged with sooty black and tipped with 

 white at the outer extremity. Midway between base and inner 

 ■edge of marginal border is a crimson black-bordered triangular 

 mark, its base on the co.sta, and its apex nearly reaching end of 

 ■cell. Area 9 crimson. Base of 7, cell, and 2 narrowly black. 



