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41. (8.) Acrsea Doubledayi, Guerin. 



$ AcrcBa Doubledayi, Gu6r., Voy. Lefebv. en Abys., vi. p. 378 (1847). 

 5 „ „ Reiche, in Ferr. et Gal., Yoj. en Abyss., iii. pi. ^Z^ 



ff. I, 2 (1849). 

 ^ and $ Acrcea Owctea, Hopff,, " Monatsber. Verb. Akad. BerL, 1855, 



p. 640, n. 6;" and Peters' Eeise nach Mossanib., p, 375, pi. xxiv. 



ff. 5-8 (1862). 

 Var. A. $ and ^ Acrcea Onccea, var. Neluslm, Obertliur, Etudes d'Ent., 



liv. iii. p. 25, pi. ii. fif. 2, 3 (1878). 

 Var. B. (J Acraea Axina, Westw., App. Gates' Matabcle Land, \). 344, n, 2,3, 



pi. F, ff. 5, 6 (1881). 



Exp.al.^ I in. io| lin. — 2 in. 2 lin. 



$ Pale creamy recldisJi-ochrcous., with a slight tinge of pink ; with 

 small hlach spots and narroio hlack horders. Fore-wing : semi-trans- 

 parent ; basal portion rather dusky, the base itself narrowly black ; in 

 discoidal cell, rather beyond its middle, an elongate spot ; at upper 

 part of extremity of cell a similar thinner spot ; a little beyond cell an 

 oblique row from near costal edge of five small spots, of which the first 

 or second (sometimes both) are obsolete, and the fifth, below third 

 median nervule, is distinctly separate from the rest; below cell, in a 

 line with its terminal spot, two spots, one above, the other below, first 

 median nervule ; nearer to base than all the others, a small round spot 

 below median nervure ; black border merely linear along costa till near 

 apex, where it widens to form rather a wide apical tip, but thence 

 becomes very narrow along hind-margin and linear near posterior 

 angle ; along hind-margin the border emits linear nervular rays ; 

 between upper radial and second median nervule, two (sometimes 

 three) inter-nervular short linear black rays, not united with hind- 

 marginal border. Hind-iving : base suffused with blackish, principally 

 below discoidal cell ; in cell two spots, the outer one larger, elongate ; 

 a spot at upper part of extremity of cell ; another on costa before 

 middle ; another below median nervure ; a very irregular discal row of 

 seven spots, of which the first, fourth (just outside end of cell), and 

 sixth are nearer to base than the rest ; the border along hind-margin 

 varies from consisting of a terminal thin edging, preceded by a suffused 

 festooned streak (failing towards anal angle) enclosing spots of the 

 ground-colour, to being moderately- broad and unspotted. Cilia pale 

 greyish-ochreous. Under side.' — Hind-wing pale creamy-yclloivish, 

 varied with dull-pink basally, inner-marginally, and towards hind- 

 margin ; spots of fore-wing less, those of hind-wing more conspicuous 

 than on upper side. Forc-%ving : two small spots on costa at base ; no 

 basal blackish ; very narrow linear costal and hind-marginal black 

 edging inwardly bounded by pale-yellowish irroration, most noticeable 

 at and near apex ; the incomplete subapical black inter-nervular streaks 

 are continued to hind-marginal edging as orange-ochreous streaks ; 

 above them one long wholly orange-ochreous inter-nervular streak. 

 Hind-wing : a small spot at origin of costal nervure ; another on costa 



