214 Mr. Butler's Descriptions of 



of eight conspicuous black spots ; outer margin broadly 

 black, bordered internally by a series of eight minute 

 white dots : body, thorax black, white-spotted, palpi 

 tawny : abdomen black at base and anus, tawny in the 

 centre, white spotted : wings below sericeous, paler than 

 above ; the taAvny spots brighter : the white spots larger ; 

 primaries with base greyish, exhibiting three or four 

 distinct black spots ; secondaries black at base, white 

 spotted ; otherwise as above : expanse of wings, 2 inches, 

 3 1 lines. 



" Quanza, August, 1872." (/. J. Montdro). B.M. 



A very distinct and beautiful little sjiecies having a 

 vague resemblance to A. Lycia of Fabricius. 



SUB-FAMILY NYMPHALIN^. Bates. 



GENUS PSEUDACILEA. Wcshvood. 

 8. Pseudacreva Fulvaria, n. sp. 



Male above smoky-brown ; the ■ nervures and folds 

 black ; primaries with a broad strongly angulated tawny 

 band, widening from subcostal nervure to inner margin ; a 

 black elongate spot enclosing two white dots at base ; 

 a spot near the end, and two, (placed obliquely), in 

 the middle of the discoidal cell; a spot near base of 

 interno-median interspace, black with a tawny margin ; 

 secondaries with central area, from subcostal nervure to 

 inner margin, tawny-ochreous, deeper coloured at base ; a 

 black spot enclosing a whitish dot at base and six black 

 spots in two triangular series beyond it ; body, thorax 

 black, white-spotted, abdomen ochreous, with black dorsal 

 line : wings below paler, apical area reddish or ochraceous 

 brown, the nervures and folds blackish ; primaries with 

 transverse band orange ; secondaries with basal area bright 

 tawny, with about ten conspicuous black spots and two or 

 three white dots ; central area crossed by a diffused white 

 band : expanse of wings, 3 inches, 1 line. 



Female above smoky-brown ; the nervures and folds 

 black ; black spots as in male ; primaries with an oblique 



