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line of fore wing, less irregular postmedian and more 
ochreous hind wing, marked more as in faver, Holl. Rather 
variable in colour and especially in the strength of the 
markings; an aberration in which the antemedian lines are 
weak and the median shade strong and black may be named 
ab. unilinea, ab. n. 
26. Achea cymatias, sp. D. 
& .—77-80 mm. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous-brown, above darker. 
Palpus with third joint rather short. Antenna almost 
simple ; mid-tarsus without hair ; first and second joints of 
hind tarsus fringed with hair above. 
Fore wing warm brown (ochreous mixed with dark 
olivaceous brown), between antemedian and median lines 
much paler, strongly overlaid with violaceous, in distal area 
variegated ; antemedian line fine, almost straight, from one- 
third costa to two-fifths hind margin, whitish-edged distally ; 
reniform narrow, crescentic, darkest and thickest at its 
ends, placed midway between antemedian and median ; 
median line gently excurved in anterior part, incurved in 
posterior; postmedian from two-thirds costa to four-fifths 
hind margin, strongly bicurved (outwards between R* and 
M’, inwards between M! and hind margin), dark-shaded 
proximally and edged by a fine white or whitish line distally; 
distal area whitish violaceous near the postmedian line and 
in an ill-defined oblique shade from middle of subterminal 
to termen about fold, narrowly darkened at termen from 
this point to near apex, otherwise mostly olive-brownish; an 
oblique blackish shade from apex towards outer lobe of 
postmedian; faint traces of zigzag whitish subterminal 
line; a black dot at fold close to termen ; terminal dark 
line ill-defined ; fringe with a pale line at base and a second 
beyond middle. 
Hind wing more fuscous ; an indistinct slightly curved 
oblique pale median line; very faint indications of other 
pale lines or shades distally ; ; a whitish apical spot ; termen 
and fringe nearly as on fore wings, the fringe paler anteriorly 
than posteriorly. Both wings beneath “grey-brown with 
crescentic cell-mark (on hind wing rounder), curved median 
and crenulate postmedian line and vague pale crenulate 
subterminal, accompanied proximally by a dark shade; 
terminal area paler, especially in distal half, which contains 
a row of small interneural black dots. 
Bitje, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 feet (Bates), 3 ¢ g, the 
13% 
