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band is edged with black, leaving the base of costa and part of area 9 

 brick-red. The two bands meet on the inner margin, and the space 

 between them is brick-red traversed by the veins here thickly scaled 

 with black. The submarginal area is brick-red, and traversed along the 

 veins by somewhat ovate and pointed stripes which extend from the 

 outer edge of the band to the margin ; these stripes bear each two 

 creamy lines within the margin. The distal margin is edged with 

 ochreous, forming spots between the stripes in lc, 2 to 7. 



Head, thorax and antennae black ; palpi ochreous, collar with two 

 reddish tufts. Abdomen black, ventral surface buff, two ventro-lateral 

 buff stripes, and a row of lateral creamy spots. Legs with trochanter 

 and base of femur black, remainder ochreous. 



? similar to the male. Fore wing with reduced creamy-white 

 markings, and wider band on the hind wing. Taken separately the 

 latter character is not distinctive. On the underside of the hind wing 

 the space between the two bands is narrower than in the male and 

 bears three smaller and more widely separated brick-red spots. 



10. A. bettiana aberr. Kissejensis ab. nov. 



One male specimen departs from the type in possessing on the 

 fore wing a black spot in the pale area, placed proximally just above 

 the submedian. On the hind wing the discal band is extended to 

 near the base, the extension being marked here and there with black 

 scaling, and there remains also the black edge of the band at the 

 cell end, and a blackish quadrate costal spot. 



As this interesting aberration suggests a mimetic approach to 

 the cabira type of Acraea we thought a name should be given it. 



Length of fore wing : 3 ? 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Kisaba Forest, Lake Kivu, September (Type $ and 

 four others) ; Lava Plains, Karissimbi, Kivu, October (Type 2 ) 

 Kisseji Eiver, Lake Kivu, September (f. Kissejensis.) 



Described from a series of six $ $ one ? . 



11. Acraea disjuncta forma alciopoides form. nov. (pi. IX, fig. 10). 



This form of disjuncta Gr. — Sm. presents a startling likeness to 

 alciope Hew., and occurs in the Ituri District. No typical specimens 

 were taken here. 



$ . Upperside of both wings pale ochreous. Fore wing with 

 black-brown apical area and narrow distal margin. The distal edge 



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