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II. Other African Kegions. 
A, South Tropical 
ai. Interior.— "Tati (Oates)." — Westwood. 
44. (11.) Acraea Stenobea, Wallengren. 
Plate III. fig. 2 (c^ ). 
Acrcea Stenobea, Wallengr., Wien. Ent. Monatschr., i860, p. 35, n. g; 
and K. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1872, p. 49, n. 24 
^ Acrcea Acronijda, Westw., App. Gates' Matabele Land, p. 346, n. 36, 
pL F, ff. II, 12 (1881). 
Var. A. — Acroea Lygus, Druce, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, P- 4oS> ^- 21- 
„ $ Acroia Natalica (variation), Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 
1870, p. 346. 
Exp. al, 2 in. — 2 in. 6 lin. 
^ Pale creamy yelloiu-ochreous, the fore-iving darker and tinged 
with hroivn, the hind-ioing j^a/cr and tinged with pink; black spots 
few ; bases strongly suffused ivith blackish. Fore-iuing : a very narrow 
black edging from base to posterior angle, widening slightly at apex ; 
a large spot in discoidal cell towards its extremity, and a small spot 
nearer base below median nervure, are almost indistinguishable in the 
basal suffusion ; a large spot at extremity of cell ; below it two smaller 
rounded spots, one above the other, the first median nervule passing 
between them ; between end of cell and apex, but nearer to the 
former, a well-marked oblique bar of five spots, of which only the 
lowest spot is separated from the rest ; all the nervules finely but 
distinctly black in outer portion of wing. Hind-wing : basal suffusion 
very much, more restricted than in fore-wing, extending usually to 
about middle of discoidal cell; spots in and at extremity of cell as in 
fore-wing, but smaller ; a small spot on costa before middle ; a discal 
row of only three (or sometimes two) widely-separated spots ; between 
the Postal and subradial of these spots (which are always present), 
occasionally traces of two very small spots ; a moderately-wide hind- 
marginal blackish border, indented regularly with the ground-colour 
on nervules, and enclosing faint indications of paler spots. Cilia 
whitish. Under side, — Paler ; hind- wing creamy- whitish, more or 
less generally clouded with reddish-pink. Fore-iuing : basal suffusion 
almost obsolete ; spots duller, slightly suffused ; blackish edging 
narrower ; two small spots on costa at base ; some whitish scaling near 
apex, chiefly on costa ; from hind-margin a series of rather indistinct 
inter-nervular orange-ochreous rays ; occasionally a very small spot 
below first median nervule near hind-margin. Hind-wing : no basal 
blackish suffusion ; the reddish-pink clouding leaves a whitish ring 
round each spot, and a well-marked whitish inner edging to the hind- 
marginal border, — it is strongest near base and towards hind-margin ; 
discal row of spots less imperfect, the number varying from four to 
eight, the most constant additional spots being two small ones on 
