ACHJJA.. 523 



towards extremitj-. Fore wing pale rufous tiuged with purplish 

 grej- and. slightlj^ irrorated with 1)lack ; a small Llack and white 

 tuft of hair at base below the cell ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, 

 oblique, waved, \ery indistinct waved medial and postmedial lines, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved; a very indistinct waved 

 subterminal line ; the terminal area rather brighter rufous with a 

 series of minute black points before termen ; cilia oclireous except 

 at apex and towards toruus. Hind wing grey-brown ; a narrow 

 oblique white medial band from vein 6 to submedian fold, the 

 area beyond it blackish Avith terminal white spots at apex and 

 discal fold and a whitish subterminal bar in submedian interspace ; 

 cilia with some white at the spots and some blackish at vein 2. 

 Underside grey suffused with brown and irrorated with black ; 

 fore wing with dark discoidal bar with some white beyond it, 

 curved postmedial line with large blackish patch beyond it at 

 middle, the termen whitish on apical half; hind wing with black 

 discoidal point, curved medial line except on inner area, slightly 

 waved postmedial line, traces of subterminal line, a series of black 

 points before termen. 



Ah. 1. Fore wing with the ground-colour darker. 



Ab. 2. accelerans. Fore wing with the lines distinctly double 

 and with lunulate fuscous marks on them. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with rather diffused oblique black medial band 

 just beyond the cell. 



Hab. SoKOXRA, Adho Dimellus (0. Grant), 1 c? , 1 5 ; Br. E. 

 Africa, Pemba I. (Burtt), 1 6 ; Porttjgtjese E. Africa, Pungwe 

 E. (Marshall), 1 S ; Naxal, Durban (ClarJc), 1 d ; Madagascar; 

 India, 2 (S type accelerans; Bombay, 1 5, Kanara (Ward), 1 5; 

 Ceylon, 1 c? ; Singapore {Ridley), 1 c? , 1 $ ; J aya (H or sfield), 

 1 c? , o $ . J^^T- 48-62 millim. 



Larva. Colour variegated pale and dark violaceous and olive- 

 grey with numerous dark violet-brown speckles ; spiracles black ; 

 4th somite with two dorsal violet-brown spots; 11th somite with 

 pair of ochreous prominences; Ist pair of claspers aborted; head 

 violet-brown in front. Food-plant, liicinus co^nmunis. 



Pupa. Deep purple-brown. 



*7651. Aclisea seychellarum. (Plate CCXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Achcsa seychellarum, Holl. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mas. sviii. p. 272 (1895). 

 Achcea immunda, Holl. Pr. U.S. Wat. Mas. xviii. p. 272 (1895). 



J. Head and thorax pale greyish rufous; antennse brown; 

 abdomen greyish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous rufous ; a rather 

 diffused waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 a diffused waved oblique black antemedial line ; a small blackish 

 orbicular spot ; reniform obscurely defined by blackish, elliptical ; 

 medial line blackish, slightly waved, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved, the interspaces beyond it suffused with black to 

 the postmedial line, which is excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line only defined by diffused waved black lines 



