•34(3 Mr, H, Eltringham's Monogo^aph of the 



SUPPLEMENT ON THE ORIENTAL SPECIES 



OF ACRAEA. ' 



Key. (Applying to both sexes.) 



F.-w. more or less transparent (a) 



F.-w. fully scaled [g) 



ia) F.-w. with numerous blackish spots . . . . • {b) 

 F.-w. without spots, or at most with a dark mark at end of 



cell (c) 



(h) H.-w. black spots but little confluent andromache 



andromache (346) 

 H.-w. black spots tending to coalesce and form a patch 



andromache f. oenone (347) 



H.-w. black spots very confluent and forming a black basal 



patch ..... andromache sanderi (347) 



i(c) Submarginal spots of h.-w. underside orange colour . . (d) 



Submarginal spots of h.-w. underside ochreous . . (e) 



>(d) H.-w. cell on underside nearly devoid of scales 



mohiccana parce (348) 

 H.-w. cell on underside almost entirely scaled with black 



mohiccana bnniensis (348) 

 ■(e) H.-w. upperside with a broad discal orange band 



violuccana meyeri (348) 



H.-w. upperside without a discal orange band . . • (/) 



(/) H.-w. upperside with a continuous, or almost continuous, whitish 



band ..... mohiccana dohertyi (348) 



H.-w. upperside with broken white band or only an inner 



marginal pale patch . . mohiccana moluccana (347) 



(g) H.-w. beneath with basal black spots enclosing or tending to 



enclose pale markings ..... violae (348) 



H.-w. beneath without basal spots or markings . vesta (349) 



1. ACRAEA ANDROMACHE. 



Acraea andromache, Fabricius (Pap. androm,acha*), Syst. Ent., 

 p. 466 (1775) ; Schmeltz, Verb. Zool. bot. Gesell. Wien., p. 593 

 (1866); Butler, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 4, v. p. 301 (1870); 

 Schmeltz, Verb. Ver. Hamburg, ii, p. 186 (1876) ; In Journ. Mus. 

 Godeff"roy, xii, p. 174 (1877) ; Staudinger, Exot. Schmett., p. 85, 

 pi. 33 (1885) ; Olliff (metam.), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 6, 1, p. 359 

 (1888); Mathew (metam.). Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 143, pi. VI, f. 14, 

 14a (1888) ; Fruhstorfer, Stettin Ent. Zeit., 68, 1, p. 21 (1907). 



* I have not hesitated to alter the last letter of the name. It is 

 printed andromacha in Syst. Ent., but there can be little doubt that 

 lit is a misprint for andromache. 



