822 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monogra'ph of the, 



A few minute black spots of which there are, one at base in 

 9, one in 8, 2 in 7, two in cell (rlose together, the second just 

 before origin of nervule 2) and two in Ic, lb, and la. 



Head and thorax black with a few yellowish spots. Abdomen 

 black above with dark ochreous lateral spots and segmental 

 lines. Claws unequal. 



5 . Expanse 50 mm. Resembles ^ but in some examples 

 there is a dusting of ochreous scales near end of f.-w. cell and 

 the brown basal colour is sometimes not quite extended to the 

 marginal border, the subapical and hind-marginal patches thus 

 being continuous. In the h.-w. the inner edge of the marginal 

 border is rather more suffused than in the $ and is sometimes 

 slightly powdered with orange ochreous scales whilst the dark 

 colour is narrowly edentate on the nervules. 



On the underside the h.-w. base a curved suffused band of 

 brownish colour beyond the cell, followed by a paler area, and 

 the marginal border is inclined to reddish brown. 



This species appears to be fairly common some 20 m. N. 

 of Kisumu, whence a good series has been received by the 

 Oxford Museum from Mr. C. A. Wiggins. Examples 

 from other localities than Nandi have usually much heavier 

 black markings. It is a much smaller insect than A. 

 jodutta, and is easily distinguished from A. alciope by 

 the extension of the f.-w. dark costal colour to the margin, 

 and by its duller ochreous colour. At the same time it is 

 very closely allied to alciope, though the latter has equal 

 claws in the $ . 



127. ACRAEA ALCIOPE. PI. XIV, f. 11. 



Acraea alciope, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. (Acraea), pi. 1, f. 4(9 



non S ), 1852 ; Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeit., 38, p. 196 (1893) ; 



Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 116 (1898) ; Eltringham, Af. 



Mim. Butt., p. 44, pi. 3, f. 23 (1910); Poulton, Bedrock, p. 



59 et seq., ft". 3, 4, 8, 9, 10 (1912). 

 ^( = cydonia), Ward, Ent. Mo. Mag., 10, p. 59 (1873) ; Karsch, 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 38, p. 196 (1893) ; Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr., 



14, p. 278 (1893) ; Eltringham, Af. Mim. Butt., p. 44, 



pi. 3, f. 16 (1910). 

 Ivory Coast ; Ashanti ; Togo ; Cameroon ; Fernando 

 Po ; Congo (Inkissi R., Aruwimi R., Kassai R.) to Uganda 

 (Toro, Entebbe). 



$ f. maearina, Butler, Proc. Zool, Soc, p. 221, pi. 17, f. 6 

 (1868) ; Hewitson, Exot. Butt. {Acrae((), pi. 1, f. 5 (1852) ; 

 Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr., 14, p. 278, f. 6 (1893) ; Rhop. 



