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Genus ACRAEA. 
The insects of this genus are generally below the 
middle size, and of a brownish-red colour, variously 
striped and spotted with black. With the exception 
of a small division, which ought probably to be 
referred to another genus, they arc natives of the 
old world, principally of the western coasts of Africa. 
The palpi are slender and nearly cylindrical, the 
terminal joint minute, forming a kind of nipple on 
the apex of the second which is very long ; antenna: 
rather short and terminating somewhat suddenly in 
a club ; anterior tarsus spatulate, scarcely toothed at 
the extremity; internal edge of the inferior wings 
not embracing the abdomen. The caterpillars are 
either spiny, like those of Argynnis , or covered with 
rigid hairs, but we are yet acquainted with very few 
of them. The chrysalis is suspended by the tail. 
