MIMACRAEA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
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M. fulvaria Auriv. (63 a). Forewing black with an orange-yellow, posteriorly broader transverse band fulvaria. 
leaving free the base of the areas 1 a to 5; on the under surface the transverse band is lighter and the apical 
part decorated with light and dark rays. Hindwing above with a black basal area reaching the middle of the 
cell and being sharply defined, then with an orange-yellow median band of about 10 mm width and a black 
marginal band of about 7 mm width in the middle, being proximad radiantly prominent and reaching the 
proximal margin. Hindwing beneath with a red-brown, black-spotted basal area distally bordered by the small 
cliscal dots almost combined to a transverse line; the large marginal part with very long, dark and light longi¬ 
tudinal rays almost reaching the discal dots. Congo District on the Ubangi River. 
M. paragora Ebl. is somewhat smaller than fulvaria, from which it deviates by the bright reddish- paragora. 
yellow median band of the forewing being curved almost in the shape of an S and reaching the posterior angle, 
the dark basal area of the hindwing above being shorter, but almost reaching the middle of the costal margin, 
the black marginal band of the hindwing above being narrower and not reaching the posterior angle, whereby 
the reddish-yellow median band of the hindwing above is narrow at the costal margin, but posteriorly very 
much expanded, covering the whole proximal margin with the anal angle. In the primeval forests on Lake 
Tanganyika. 
M. eltringhami Ham. Druce (63 d). Forewing black, beneath in the apical part with indistinct longi- eltringham 
tudinal rays, on each side with an orange-yellow median transverse band being just as broad or broader at the 
costal margin than at the posterior margin and in the area 4 distally angularly broken. Hindwing above with 
a black basal area reaching the apex of the discal cell in the $, and with a black marginal band being equally 
broad in the <J and only about 3 mm broad, whilst in the $ it is about 8 mm broad at the apex of the wing, 
tapering off towards the posterior angle; the median band in the <$ is 9 o 1 - 10 mm broad reddish, only at the 
proximal margin in the areas 1 a to 2 white, whilst in the $ it is all white, only about 6 mm broad and not 
reaching the costal margin, which is blackish. Hindwing beneath with a dark red-brown, sharply defined, 
black-spotted basal area; the marginal area is in the proximal part white, particularly in the areas 1 a to 4, 
distally darkened with very long, black longitudinal rays. Unyoro in the Buyoma Forest. — It resembles 
Planema quadricolor (58 c). 
M. landbecki Ham. Druce (63 b, c). Forewing above black in the middle between the cell and apex landbecki. 
of the wing with a yellow subapical band composed of 5 spots of the areas 4 to 6, 8 and 9, and a triangular, 
reddish-yellow spot of the posterior margin, reaching the vein 4, but not covering the base of the areas 1 a to 3; 
the spot in the area 3 is small, not or little longer than it is broad; the undersurface only differs by the 
apical part showing dark longitudinal rays, the subapical band being almost white, and the spot on the 
posterior margin yellow. Hindwing above as far as the base reddish-yellow, with a black marginal band, which 
is broader in the $ than in the ; beneath almost monotonously dirty-yellow or brownish-yellow, not or 
scarcely darker at the base; 9 black basal dots (in 1 c, 2, 7, and the cell) and in the marginal part very long, 
fine, black longitudinal rays reaching or almost reaching the discal cell; no discal dots. 
M. darwinia Btlr. The genus Mimacraea was, in 1872, founded on this species according to a specimen darwinia. 
from an English private collection. Whether the typical specimen is-still preserved, is unknown to me; the 
under surface is neither figured nor described by Butler, for which reason I was unable to place the species 
in the review'. Judging from the design of the upper surface, it greatly approximates the follow'ing species. 
Forewing above black, with an orange-yellow subapical band in 4 to 6 and 8, and a broad, trapezoidal, orange- 
yellow spot on the posterior margin, ending broadly at vein 4, being 12 mm broad at the posterior margin, 
7 mm broad at vein 4 and leaving free the base of the areas 1 a to 3. Hindwing above orange-yellow' with a 
black, proximally somewhat lobate marginal band being 4 mm broad in the middle. West Africa ( ?). 
M, apicalis Smith & Ky. (62 b). Forewing above black with a yellow subapical band composed apicalls. 
of 4 or 5 spots of the areas 4 to 6, 8, 9, and a broad, trapezoidal, orange-yellow spot on the posterior 
margin reaching the base of the areas 1 b to 3 or being there only little scaled black, and ending transversely 
at vein 4. Beneath there are at the apex and margin light and dark longitudinal rays and a reddish 
spot on the posterior margin forming also a longitudinal streak in the discal cell. Hindwing above orange- 
yellow with a black marginal band of 4 mm width, tapering off towards the proximal margin and uniformly 
emarginated on the proximal side. Hindwing blackish-grey with a light yellow median band of 4 or 5 mm 
width, separating the black-spotted basal area from the marginal band of about 8 mm width, decorated with 
light and dark longitudinal rays. If M. danvinia has a similar under surface, apicalis is probably only a form 
of this species, distinguished by the light yellow subapical band of the forewing. Togoland as far as the Kuilu 
River. 
M. neurata Holl. is unknown to me and is described, as follows: forewing dark brown with a narrow, neurata. 
orange-red subapical band of 4 spots, the uppermost of which is small, the two following ones square and the 
last in area 4 triangular and nearer at the margin than the others; behind the subapical band a broad, orange-red 
spot on the posterior margin anteriorly bordered by the discocellular and parted by the black veins; on the 
under surface the reddish-yellow markings are lighter, and the marginal part is decorated with light and dark 
longitudinal rays. Hindwing above in the basal part orange-red with a very broad; black marginal band, a 
