ACHJEA. 515 



torinis; a pale subtermiual line from vein 3 to termen at vein 1 ; a 

 white spot at apex ; the termen tinged with red-brown at middle 

 and with a series of black points before it ; cilia white towards apex, 

 then blackish with a pale line at base. Underside reddish brown, 

 irrorated with blackish ; fore wing with black discoidal lunule, a 

 large patch of black suffusion on postmedial area below middle from 

 before the postmedial line, a faint waved whitish subterminal line 

 excurved below costa, the termen suffused with white ; hind Aving 

 with the inner area suffused with blue-grey, two curved postmedial 

 lines and a subterminal line defined on outer side by whitish. 



Hah. Madagascar, Betsileo (Coivan), 1 J type, $ in Coll. Ken- 

 rick. E.rp, 70 millim. 



TG^O. Achffia echo. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 17.) 



Ophisn-M echo, Wlk. xiv. 1374 (1858). 

 'Ackcsa mariaca, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit. xli. p. 299 (1880). 



Head and thorax pale red-brown ; abdomen greyish brown. 

 Fore wing with the basal area red-brown to the medial line towards 

 which it is darker; subbasal line brown defined on outer side by 

 whitish, excurved below costa, then oblique and ending at sub- 

 median fold ; traces of an oblique sinuous antemedial line; medial 

 line dark brown, incurved, slightly excurved above inner margin ; 

 medial area pale rufous with slight black points at the angles of 

 cell ; postmedial area reddish brown, extending on costal half to 

 before the slight dentate black postmedial line, which is excurved 

 below costa, then incurved; some whitish points on costa towards 

 apex ; a black-brown line downcurved and rather diffused on inner 

 side from apex to vein 6, then rather indistinctly double and in- 

 curved to tornus where there is a slight whitish mark on it, the 

 area beyond it whitish tinged with red-brown and irrorated with 

 dark brown and with slight white streaks on the veins ; a series of 

 black points before the fine brown terminal line ; a whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown ; an indistinct whitish line 

 from middle of costa to tornus and a faint pale line from vein 3 to 

 termen near tornus ; a wedge-shaped white apical patch ; the 

 termen whitish irrorated with brown from below apex to submedian 

 fold ; some slight blackish points before the fine brown terminal 

 line : cilia white except at tips towards apex. Underside greyish 

 suffused with brown and irrorated with dark brown ; fore wing with 

 slight dark discoidal bar and postmedial line excurved below costa, 

 then incurved, with some whitish before it at middle and large 

 fuscous patch beyond it ; hind wing with dark discoidal striga and 

 two slightly waved dark postmedial lines except on inner area. 



Hah. SiEKRA Leone {Morgan, Mitford), 2 c? ; S. ISTigebia, Ilesha 

 {Humfrey), 1 5 ! Mashonaland, Umtali [Marsliall), 1 S ; Trans- 

 vaal, Lydenburg (ZutrencJra), 1 J ; Natal, Durban (LeigJi), 1 2 • 

 Exp. 66-74 millim. 



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