African Species of the Genus Acraea. 285 



A. penelope translucida, subsp. n. PI. IV, t i (^), i. 6 (2)- 



^. Bather smaller than typical 7)e»ie?of>e. F.-w. transparent. 

 Costa, apical area, and hind margin black, this colour being 

 somewhat edeutate on the nervules. Some black powdering 

 in and beyond cell, and a slight blackish longitudinal streak 

 in cell. A little dusting of red scales in basal half of area lb, 

 and distal portion of la. 



H.-w. much as in typical penelope but dark basal suffusion 

 only sliglit and hind-marginal border rather narrower. 



Underside as in typical jyenelope, but the greater part of 

 f.-w. devoid of scales and vitreous. H.-w. clear ochre yellow 

 with a greenish tinge at base and on hind-marginal border. 



$ . r.-w. more rounded than in r? but otherwise similar, 

 though more thinly scaled, the dark portions having a grey 

 appearance. 



H.-w. salmon pink, the spots of underside irregularly repro- 

 duced. Hind margin powdered with sepia scales, the nervule 

 ends and rays slightly accentuated. Underside much as in (^ 

 but the nervule ends and rays brownish rather than black. 

 The usual variability occurs in the black spots. 



This form has hitely been bred near Lagos by Mr. W. 

 A. Lamborn. Unfortunately none of the larvae were 

 preserved on that occasion, and a further supply has not 

 yet been obtained. They feed on the same plant as the 

 larvae of A. peneleos. Miss Sharpe's A. newtoni from the 

 Island of St, Thomas is probably also a form of A.ijeneloiye. 

 I have not however been able to see the type of this 

 form which is in the Lisbon Museum, my appeal to the 

 authorities of that institution not havino- elicited the 

 courtesy of a reply. 



104. Acraea newtoni. 



Acraea neivtoni, E. M. B. Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 554 

 (1893) ; Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. (Acraea), 5,-p. 17, 

 pi. 5, f. 8, 9 (1894); Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 113 

 (1898). 

 Sao Thome. 



^. Expanse 50 mm. F.-w. elongated, black brown. A sub- 

 apical band of three dusky translucent spots separated by 

 nervules 6 and 5, and a somewhat larger similar spot near 

 base of area 2. 



H.-w. black brown showing a few black spots near base and 

 having a narrow (3 mm.) orange red curved central band which 

 scarcely reaches the inner margin. 



