184 MESSRS. GODMAN AND DISTANT ON [Mar. 2, 



AcR^A CHILD, Godm., n. sp. (Plate XIX. figs. 4, 5.) 



(S . Exp. 2-7 in. 



Brick-red : costa and outer margin of primaries black, the latter 

 marked with seven red spots ; three black spots within the cell — one 

 at the end, one in the middle, and the third towards the base ; a 

 transverse line of three confluent black spots beyond the cell, three 

 immediately below the median nervure, and one towards the anal 

 angle ; secondaries blackish at the base, with exterior margin black, 

 faintly spotted with red, seven or eight black spots on the inner 

 area. Beneath as above, but paler ; secondaries pinkish white, 

 marked throughout with scattered black spots; exterior margin 

 black, strongly marked with a row of white spots. 



2 . Larger and paler ; primaries diaphanous. 



Hab. Kalamet,^ebka valley, Abyssinia (Jesse). 



Mus. G. & S. / 



Two specimens only of this species have come under our notice, 

 a male and female, brought by Mr. Jesse from Abyssinia in 1868, 

 and these have remained unnamed in our collection ever since. It 

 does not appear to have any very close allies. 



AcR^A iNSiGNis, Distant, n. sp. (Plate XIX. fig. 6.) 



(5 . Upper wings above with rather more than basal half reddish 

 orange, remaining apical portion and costa smoky hyaline, with the ner- 

 vures darker ; the basal reddish portion extends to end of cell, where 

 there is a small black spot, and is then slightly curved to posterior 

 angle ; the inner margin is faintly black, and there is a small linear 

 basal streak of the same colour. 



Lower wings above reddish orange, with the hind margin narrowly 

 black, and two somewhat large black spots in the cell, one at base and 

 the other at apex ; a spot of the same size and colour between second 

 and third median nervules, immediately adjoining median nervure, 

 from which the space to abdominal margin and median nervure is 

 also almost completely suffused with black. In a second specimen 

 these spots are all fused into one irregular large black basal patch. 



Underside. — Upper wings as above, but the reddish basal portion 

 very much paler. Lower wings pale ochreous, with a red sub- 

 marginal band adjoining the black marginal border ; black spots 

 as above, but rather larger and more fused, with a few small basal 

 ochreous spots near abdominal margin. 



2 . Resembles S ; fore wing with spot at end of cell larger, and 

 bind wings with the black spots somewhat smaller and more 

 segregated. 



Exp. wings 2-j2j inches. 



Hab. Magila, East Africa. 



This species belongs to the section of the genus represented 

 by A. horta, Linn., to which it is allied ; but it differs in the 

 less number of spots in both wings, and in the much larger size and 

 arrangement of those in the lower one; the posterior marginal border 

 to the lower wing is also continuous and not macular as in A. horta. 



This is almost certainly the species described by Mr. Hewitson 



