ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 
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381. (11a.) Acraea Acrita, Hewitson. 
Acroea Acrita^ Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iii. pi. 8 (Acraea iii.), f. 18 [(^]. 
Exf. al, {$) 2 in. 4-6 lin. 
$ Deep oclireous-red, ivith a ferruginous tinge^ spotted with hlach ; 
wide apical area of fore-iuing ochreous-gelloiv, paler on its inner side ; 
cilia luhite. Fore-iuing : a good-sized ovate black spot in outer half 
of discoidal cell, and another (more elongate) at extremity of cell ; in 
an oblique line below latter spot towards posterior angle, two other 
spots, the upper one large, rounded, above first median nervule, — the 
lower one smaller, narrower, below that nervule ; sometimes a small 
round spot below median nervure, some way before origin of the first 
nervule ; costa very finely black-edged from about middle ; apex nar- 
rowly or broadly black-bordered ; hind-margin narrowly black-edged 
from end of apical border to posterior angle ; boundary between 
ochreous-red and apical ochreous-yellow areas not sharply defined, the 
latter beginning about extremity of cell. Hind-ioing : paler on its 
margins ; base in the middle very narrowly irrorated with blackish ; 
a small spot in discoidal cell close to base ; an irregular sub-basal row 
of four spots, of which the first and fourth (respectively next costa 
and inner margin) are very small and indistinct, and the second is in 
cell ; immediately beyond upper disco-cellular nervule a rather small 
rounded spot ; an exceedingly irregular discal row of six moderate-sized 
spots, of which the first and fifth are nearer base than the rest ; a 
rather broad black hind-marginal border enclosing seven large spots 
of the ground-colour, but rather paler. Under side. — Hind-wing and 
moderately hroad apical area of fore-iuing with a ground of clear 
yellowish-creamy^ largely ohscured in the former hy hroad didl lake-red, 
in the latter hy narrow reddish-ochreous, internervular ra.ys. Fore-wing : 
black-edging everywhere linear ; black spots as on upper side ; ner- 
vules crossing apical creamy space very finely black. Hind-iving : 
except in discoidal cell for about two-thirds of its length from base, and 
in a more restricted space between median and submedian nervures, 
the internervular lake-red rays leave only a creamy clouding on neura- 
tion and round spots ; latter as above, but three small additional ones 
close to base ; spots of hind-marginal border clear yellowish -creamy, 
and so enlarged that black is reduced to a very distinct and well- 
defined inner and outer edging to, and nervular lines of separation 
between, them. 
$ Dushy-hroivn, with the suhctpical space heyond extremity of dis- 
coidal cell conspicuously paler ; all spotting similar to that of $ ; colour- 
ing of under side much duller. 
There is much probability that the $ of this striking and distinct 
Acraea is in life of considerably brighter colouring than appears in my 
description, which was made from Hewitson's types and from a ^ cap- 
tured in 1883 by Mr. Selous. I include the species in this Appendix, 
