II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



ai. Interior. — " Tati (Oates)." — Westwood. 



44. (11.) Acrsea Stenobea, Wallengren. 

 Plate III. fig. 2 ( ^^ ). 



Acr(sa Stenobea, Wallengr., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., i860, p. 35, n. 9; 



and K. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1872, p. 49, n. 24 \_S\ 

 $ AcrcBCi Acronyda, Westw., App. Gates' Matabele Land, p. 346, n. 36, 



pi. F, ff. II, 12 (1881). 



Var. A. — Acra'a Lygus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, P- 4°8) ^- 21. 

 „ $ Acrcea Natalica (variation), Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 



1870, p. 346. 



Exp. al., 2 in. — 2 in. 6 lin. 



$ Fale creamy yellow-ochreous, the fore-ioing darker and tinged 

 with broton, the hind-wing pa/er and tinged ivith pink; black spots 

 few ; bases strongly suffused toith blackish. Fore-wing : a very narrow 

 black edging from base to posterior angle, widening slightly at apex ; 

 a large spot in discoidal cell towards its extremity, and a small spot 

 nearer base below median nervure, are almost indistinguishable in the 

 basal suffusion ; a large spot at extremity of cell ; below it two smaller 

 rounded spots, one above the other, the first median nervule passing 

 between them ; between end of cell and apex, but nearer to the 

 former, a well-marked oblique bar of five spots, of which only the 

 lowest spot is separated from the rest ; all the nervules finely but 

 distinctly black in outer portion of wing. Hind-wing : basal suffusion 

 very much more restricted than in fore-wing, extending usually to 

 about middle of discoidal cell; spots in and at extremity of cell as in 

 fore-wing, but smaller ; a small spot on costa before middle ; a discal 

 row of only three (or sometimes two) widely-separated spots ; between 

 the costal and subradial of these spots (which are always present), 

 occasionally traces of two very small spots ; a moderately-wide hind- 

 marginal blackish border, indented regularly with the ground-colour 

 on nervules, and enclosing faint indications of paler spots. Cilia 

 whitish. Under side. — Paler ; hind-wing creamy-whitish, more or 

 less generally clouded with reddish-pink. Fore-wing: basal suffusion 

 almost obsolete ; spots duller, slightly suffused ; blackish edo-ino- 

 nari^ower ; two small spots on costa at base ; some whitish scaling near 

 apex, chiefly on costa ; from hind-margin , a series of rather indistinct 

 inter-nervular orange-ochreous rays ; occasionally a very small spot 

 below first median nervule near hind-margin. Hind-iving : no basal 

 blackish suffusion ; the reddish-pink clouding leaves a whitish ring 

 . round each spot, and a well-marked whitish inner edging to the hind- 

 marginal border, — it is strongest near base and towards hind-margin ; 

 discal row of spots less imperfect, the number varying from four to 

 eight, the most constant additional spots being two small ones on 



