192 MISS E. M.SHARPE ON NEW [Mar. 3, 



Exp. 2 inches. 

 Hah. Sotik, Sept. 1889. 



Allied to B. raffrayi of Oberthiir (c/. Etudes d'Entomologie, p. \7, 

 pis. i. &iii.). 



Subfam. AcR^iNiE. 

 8. AcRiEA EXCELSIOR, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig. 3.) 



Of the same group as A. bonasia, but with a yellow subapical 

 patch on the fore wing and a yellow patch on the hind wing. The 

 underside differs from that of any species of Acrcea which I have 

 yet seen. 



Fore wing. A large basal area of deep orange-rufous extending 

 over two thirds of the cell and over all but the hind margin of the disc, 

 so that it occupies the major portion of the wing. The base black, 

 extending as a broad border along the costal margin to the apex, 

 and round the hinder margin and along the inner margin, though 

 here it is much narrower ; where the rufous portion touches the black 

 which borders it, there is a slight indication of a yellow intermediate 

 line, near the costal margin and the outer posterior and inner 

 marginal border. The subapical patch of pale yellow is tinged with 

 rufous, and in shape is long and oval, extending from near the 

 costal margin almost to the hind margin, crossing the base of the 

 subcostal nervules and radial nervules almost to the posterior 

 margin of the third median nervule. This yellow patch is separated 

 from the rufous area by a black band from the costa to the hind 

 margin. 



Hind wing. Basal area black, with a rufous spot above the 

 subcostal nervure ; the centre of the wing crossed by a broad 

 band of yellow, from the costa to the inner margin, washed with 

 rufous towards the former and above the disk ; the hind margin 

 with a broad black band which occupies, at least, a quarter of the 

 wing. 



Under surface. More than the basal half orange-rufous, streaked 

 with yellow at the bass and along the costal m.argin, which is other- 

 wise dusky black as well as the apex and hind margin of the wing, 

 the latter narrowing towards the anal angle and ornamented with a 

 mesial streak of crimson on the hinder margin between each 

 nervule. A yellow subapical patch is enclosed by a band of black, 

 exactly as on the upper surface. 



Hind wing. Beautifully varied with yellow and crimson, the greater 

 part of the wing being yellow. The base is crimson, enclosed in a 

 triangular line of black, with a white spot at the base of the internal 

 nervure. About the middle of the costal border is another tri- 

 angular patch of crimson, enclosed by black, reaching to the hind 

 margin of the discoidal cell. The hind margin of the wing is 

 occupied by a broad border coequal with that of the upper surface, 

 the nervules marked by a broad line of ashy black, the intervening 

 spaces being crimson with a well-marked subterminal spot of white, 

 the hind margin being fringed with black. 



