African Species of the Gemis Acraea. 291 



Underside. F.-w. as above but thinly scaled and somewhat 

 glossy. H.-w. with reddish brown base on which the black 

 spots are ill defined and confluent. Central area occupied by 

 a conspicvious broad curved pink band. Marginal border red- 

 dish brown marked as in ^ . 



Head, thorax, and abdomen with the pale spots rather more 

 conspicuous. 



Acraea conradti seems to be a well-defined species of 

 narrow distribution. 



In the Vosseler collection at Berlin there is a fine series 

 of 18 ^ and 5 $, taken in German E. Africa. Two 

 examples in the Tring collection are from Nguelo. 



108. Acraea buschbecki. PI. XIII, f. 20. 



Acraea huschhechi, Dewitz, Ent. Nachr. 15, p. 102, pi. 1, f. 2 

 (Apr. 1889) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth. p. 112 (1898). 



= zaire^ Eogenhofer, Ann. Mus. Wien., 4, p. 551 (Dec. 1889). 



Congo State (Quango, Stanley Falls, Luebo, Kassai R.) ; 

 Cameroon (Bitj6 R., Asokko). 



^. Expanse about 54 mm. F.-w. narrow and elongated. 

 Brownish black. Cell as far as origin of 3, basal two-thirds of 

 area 2, basal three-quarters of lb, and subbasal portion of la, 

 brick red. An oblique subapical series of three elongated con- 

 tiguous quadrate brick-red spots in 6, 5, and 4, followed by a 

 smaller, more rounded, and isolated spot in 3. Projecting into 

 cell from subcostal, above origin of nervule 2, an outwardly 

 curved blackish brown spot. In area la a large subtriangular 

 blackish brown spot, its base on the submedian, and its apex 

 meeting nervule 2 just beyond the origin of the latter. A 

 linear basal black mark in area 2. 



H.-w\ brick red, yellowish at inner margin and with a slight 

 blackish basal suffusion. A blackish brown hind-marginal 

 border, some 2 mm. wide, its inner edge somewhat edentate on 

 the nervules and rather less so between them. A series of black 

 spots somewhat ill defined and partly confluent. 



Underside. F.-w. as above but basal red areas orange 

 ochreous, subapical spots dull ochreous, and the apex and hind 

 margin striated by ochreous internervular marks, each divided 

 by a narrow central dark ray. Costa dull ochreous. 



H.-w. dull ochreous with a blackish brown hind-marginal 

 border as on upperside but bearing a series of marginal inter- 

 nervular ochreous spots each of which is divided by a short 

 internervular ray which scarcely reaches the margin. Black 



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