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(2) The border is not followed by a definite brown area but 

 the whole of the rest of wing is dusted with brown scales. 



(3) The border is nearly all black except for the marginal 

 spots which are greyish white ; area 7 is nearly all black, and 

 the base is black with some ochreous scales in 9, 8, 7, lb, and la. 

 Remainder of wing dark brown. 



The series contains various intermediates between the 

 above three forms. All were taken by Neave on Mt. 

 Kokanjero, but a similar variability seems to occur in other 

 localities. 



A. uvui balina, subsp. 



The type of Karsch's balina is either an aberration or its 

 colour has been damaged by an excess of cyanide in the killing 

 bottle. The pale marks are reddish yellow and the dark areas 

 are pale brown. Had I seen only the type I should have been 

 inclined to regard it as merely an aberration, but there are 

 examples having a perfectly normal appearance in the Tring 

 collection, so that, in view of the fact that the structure of the ft 

 armature is identical with that in uvui, I regard balina as the 

 western subspecies of the latter. In appearance it differs from 

 uvui principally in the rather smaller extent of tlie tawny red 

 area, and in the pattern of the hind-marginal border on the 

 underside which is broader and has red internervular marks 

 above the marginal white spots. 



A. v.vui may be distinguished from honasia and alicia 

 by the arrangement of the black at base of f.-w., the outer 

 edge of which runs straight up, continuously with the 

 triangular black of the h.-w., nearly to the upper distal 

 part of cell. It is also much smaller than the other 

 species referred to. 



86. Acraea lumiri. PI. IV, f. IQ {$)■ PI- XIII, f. 15. 



Acraea lumiri, Bethune-Baker, Ann. Nat. Hist., 2, p. 471 (1908). 

 Congo (Kissegneis to Albert Nyanza) ; Cameroon (Asokko, 

 Ja R.). 



^ . Expanse 34 mm. Wings orange red. F.-w. with a black costal 

 margin extending into upper half of cell with a slight projection 

 over origin of nervules 2 and 3 and becoming very narrow beyond 

 cell (where it is invaded by the subapical patch) and continued 

 at apex into an apical and hind-marginal border about 2 mm. 

 wide rather broader at apex and narrower at hind angle. 

 From costal black at end of cell, to middle of marginal border 

 an oblique bar of black, cutting off a large rounded subapical 



