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6. P. Formosa, n. sjh 



Male above dark brown, primaries with basal area black- 

 brown, limited by a broad strongly angulated, internally 

 trisinuated tawny band from costa to inner margin : 

 secondaries with a central narrow white band, narroAving 

 from inner margin to costa ; base black spotted, nervures 

 and folds black ; body, thorax black, white spotted, 

 abdomen black above with the edges of the segments tawny, 

 below tawny ; wings below paler than above, apical area 

 red-brown, the nervnres and folds blackish ; primaries with 

 transverse band, orange ; secondaries with basal area bright 

 tawny, with about sixteen large spots : expanse of wings, 

 3 inches, 6 lines. 



Female similar to F. Ficri/ta ? , but with the white l«nd 

 of primaries carried uj) more squarely to costal nervure, 

 not sinuated internally at end of cell, but deeply excavated 

 at base of second median interspace ; the lunate subanal 

 spot merely indicated by a whitish nebula enclosing a 

 black spot ; outer two-thiids of inner margin creamy ; 

 spots at base of secondaries smaller and differently 

 arranged : expanse of wings, 3 inches, 8 lines. 

 d". Cabinda, ? . Ambriz {J. J. Monteiro). B.M. 



The most handsome of the species of Flanema : it is 

 allied to F. Furt/ta. 



GENUS ACR^EA. Fidrldm. 

 SECTION TELCHINIA. Douhkday. 



7. Acrcva Fscudohjcia, n. sp. 



Wings above with the central area broadly white, base 

 liroadly blackish, with black spots, partly encircled with 

 white ; primaries Mdth four conspicuous black spots on the 

 white area, the first in cell, the second near base of first 

 median interspace, the two others on interno-median inter- 

 space ; a large irregular black blotch at end of cell, beyond 

 which is a slightly oblique sub-apical white l)and, tri- 

 sinuate externally, so as partly to enclose the first three 

 of a submarginal series of six tawny spots ; external area 

 smoky-brown ; secondaries with an irregular discal series 



