216 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



base of Ic broadly black with two crimson spots, base of lb and 

 la black, the latter with two lemon-yellow sjjots. 



Head black, collar with two red tufts, thorax black, abdomen 

 black above with pale yellowish lateral dots. Claws unequal. 



5 resembles the ^ but is slightly larger, the colours gener- 

 ally are duller and the basal red is in some cases replaced by 

 yellowish. Both wings have a submarginal border of reddish 

 internervular spots. 



By the peculiar and very beautiful pattern of the h.-w. 

 underside A. excelsior is easily distinguished from any 

 other specie.s. 



84. ACRAEA MIRABILIS. PI. XIII, f. 13. 



Acraea rairahilis, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 760, pi. 47, f. 1 

 (1885) ; in James, Unknown Horn of Africa, p. 236, pi. 

 f. 1 (1888); Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 103 (1898) ; Dixey, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 11, pi. 1, f. 4 (1900). 



Central Somalilaxd (Bundu Maria, Aoho). 



^ . Expanse 40-46 mm. Wings orange-ochreous. F.-w. 

 narrowly black along costa, apex, and hind margin. Subcostal 

 nervure narrowly black. A small black, more or less wedge- 

 shaped mark on upper part of discocellulais. Ends of nervures 

 at apex and hind margin black. Midway between end of cell 

 and apex an ochreous spot extending from costa to middle of 

 area 4, and outlined with black. 



H.-w. with a very little black at base of Ic. A narrowly black 

 hind margin, and ends of 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 rather broadly black. 

 A black spot in cell showing through from underside and the 

 peculiar pattern of the underside faintly indicated. 



Underside. F.-w. orange ochreous, costa, apical area and hind 

 margin greyish ochreous, the nervules thereon narrowly black. 

 In the internervular spaces at margin are patches of the ground- 

 colour, that in 6 long and reaching inwardly to the pale discal 

 spot which is as above but paler. A narrow black hind-marginal 

 line, and in 4 and 5 a black internervular ray between pale 

 discal spot and orange marginal marks. 



H.-w. Base pale ochre-yellow with some irregular black about 

 bases of nervures. A black spot in 8 some distance from pre- 

 costal, one in cell near base, and one in la. A pink flush in 

 9, 7, Ic, and la. Across middle of wing a curved band of pale 

 grey having on both sides a narrow broken black outline, and 

 irregularly flushed with pink, notably in 7, 5, 4, cell, Ic, and 

 lb. A minute black spot at base of 5 and 4. Following this 

 grey band a parallel immaculate band of pale ochre yellow. 



