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MIMACRAEA. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
black costal margin and black veins; beneath the basal third is red-brown with 9 o^ 10 black spots; then follows 
a light yellow median band indistinctly defined and growing broader towards the proximal margin; distally 
it borders on the broad marginal band decorated with longitudinal rays. Liberia. 
neokoion. M. neokoton Ham. Bruce (63 c). Forewing above black with a light reddish-yellow subapical band 
and a very large, orange-yellow spot on the posterior margin covering both the base of the areas 1 a to 4 and 
almost the Avhole discal cell; only at the apex of the cell a bk ck transverse spot; the under surface only deviates 
by exhibiting in each of the areas 2 to 7 a dirty yellow marginal spot proximallv rounded off. Hindwing above 
orange-yellow with a black marginal band of about 3 mm width, beneath yellowish, scarcely darker at the base 
which is decorated with 11 black dots; at the margin in each area with a triangular, greyish-yellow spot sharpley 
defined by black. South East Rhodesia and Gaza District. 
marshalli. M. marshalli Trim. (62 c). Forewing above black with a white subapical band composed of 4 oi 5 spots, 
and a large, reddish-yellow spot on the posterior margin, almost entirely covering the areas 1 a and 1 b as far 
as the margin, the greatest part of the areas 2 and 3, the base of the area 4 and a large part of the discal cell; 
beneath it is marked as above, but with large yellowish marginal spots. Hindwing above reddish-yellow as 
far as the base, with a narrow, black marginal band, beneath greyish-yellow with 12 or 13 black dots in 
the basal half, and a black marginal band being only 2 mm broad in the middle and strongly narrowed in front 
and behind. Mashuna District, Rhodesia and Nyassa District. — By the distribution of the colours it reminds 
us of Danaida chrysippus and Acraea encedon (56 e). 
doheriyi. M. dohertyi Rothsch. Both wings above light orange-yellow, with a fine black marginal line, the forewing 
with a black costal-marginal stripe reaching the cell, extended behind the cell as far as vein 5, usually also 
forming a spot in area 4, and terminating about in the middle between the cell and apex of the wing; behind 
it generally a small, black costal-marginale spot; beneath entirely as above, but lighter. Hinclwing beneath with 
black basal and discal dots, otherwise as above. British East Africa. — It corresponds to Danaida dorippus 
and Acraea encedon f. daira (56 g). 
costleyi. M. costleyi Ham. Druce is very much like M. marshalli (62 c) and deviates only by the white sub¬ 
apical band of the forewing being much broader and touching the reddish-yellow spot of the posterior margin 
at vein 4, by the marginal band of the hindwing above being narrower and particularly by the hindwing 
beneath at the margin exhibiting triangular spots bordered by oblique black lines. Nyassa District. 
skoptoles. M. skoptoles Ham. Druce. Forewing above black with a white subapical band formed of 4 or 5 spots 
of the areas 4 to 6, 9 and 10, and with a large, orange-yellow spot of the posterior margin, covering the whole 
basal half except a black transverse spot at the cell-apex, a black line in the cell and at the costal margin; the 
under surface deviates only by yellowish marginal spots bordered by black rays. Hindwing above as far as the 
base orange-yellow with a black marginal band of 3 or 4 mm width, beneath monotonously yellow with 9 black 
basal dots and long-extended, triangular, greyish-yellow marginal spots bordered by a thick, deeply dentatecl, 
black line. Nigeria. 
gelinia. M. gelinia Oberth. (62 b) so much resembles skoptoles that it suffices to state the differences. The 
white subapical band of the forewing consists of two parts touching each other at vein 6; the anterior part is 
composed of 3 .spots in 6, 8 and 9, the posterior part, being situate more towards the margin, consists of two 
spots in 5 and 4, of which that in 4 is very small and punctiform or absent; besides there is a white submarginal 
spot in area 2, at a distance from the margin of about 4 mm. The black marginal band of the hindwing above 
is proximacl bordered somewhat irregularly. The hindwing is beneath reddish-yellow with black veins bordered 
by a light yellow in the discal area. Usambara. 
poultoni. M. poultoni Heave (= luteomaculata Griinb.). Forewing above black with an almost straight, equally 
broad, sulphureous-yellow subapical band and a reddish-yellow spot of the posterior margin, reaching vein 4, 
being in front narrowed and often reaching the base of the areas lb to 3; beneath the whole discal cell is red 
with some black dots, and the marginal part has the usual dark longitudinal rays. Hindwing above black 
with a redclish-yellow median band of about 8 mm width, beneath with a yellowish-grey, black-spotted basal 
area, a light yellow median band of about 5 mm width, and a marginal band of 7 mm width enclosing 6 greyish- 
yellow, triangular marginal spots and black longitudinal rays. British East Africa; Cavirondo and Uganda. -—- 
By its colouring and marking it is very much like Acraea sotikensis E. Sharpe (56 a). 
neavei. M. neavei Eltr. (63 b). Wings above black with a joint, ochreous-yellow, median transverse band of 
about 6 mm width, extending from the proximal margin of the hindwing as far as vein 4 of the forewing, being 
bent on the hindwing and straight on the forewing; forewing besides with an ochreous-yellow subapical band 
formed of three spots of the areas 5, 6 and 8. Wings beneath of a dark grey ground-colour and long, blackish, 
triangular marginal spots bordered with a light yellow; the median band is whitish-yellow, on the forewing 
broader (9 mm), on the hindwing narrower (4 mm) than above; the subapical band of the forewing is almost 
white; the basal area of the hindwing is large with 16 to 19 black basal and discal dots, some of the 
latter, however, being situate in the transverse band. Cameroon. — It strikingly imitates Acraea oberthuri 
