BALACRA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
B. testacea Aur. (7 a) is of a bright ruddle-red colour; forewing with 3 {$) or 4 (?) red discal spots testacea. 
which are light-centred in the $. Abdomen of $ with dark bands. In an aberration the $ may also lack the 
light centres of the discal spots. West Africa, Uganda. -—■ In ab. micromacula Strd. the spots are smaller and micromacu- 
without yellow centres. la ' 
B. haemalea Holl. (7 b) chiefly differs from testacea in the deep hemochrome colour of the whole haemalea. 
body; apical part of hindwing tinged with yellowish. Cameroon, Gabun, Congo. 
B. germama Rothsch. (7 b). $. Colour of body and wings very bright red, but lighter than haemalea. germana. 
Hindwing with prominently dark veins; centre of abdomen with black bands. Sierra Leone. The $ has apparently 
not yet been found. 
B. intermedia Rothsch. (7 c). In the $ the body is of a very bright light red, the forewing brown intermedia. 
with red discal spots, the spot in the submedian area being very large and centred with whitish. Sierra Leone. 
B. flavimacula Wkr. (= decora Oberth.) (7 c) differs from the quite similar testacea in the showing fiavimacula. 
the white spots of the fore wing with much larger white centres, and the $ showing no black belts in the centre 
of the abdomen. Beside this typical form there also occur specimens (in Cameroon) with more intensely 
purple pink hindwings, and such without any yellow spots on the forewing (= ab. monotonia Strd.). West monotonia. 
Africa. 
B. preussi Aur. (= guillemei Oberth.) (7 d) differs from the preceding in the distinctly defined white, preussi. 
not yellow hyaline spots, 4 or 5 of which are combined to a subapical chain in the forewing, whilst 2 smaller 
ones are in and below the cell. In the $ the colouring is a brownish purple pink, in the $ the thorax and 
the ground-colour of the forewing are dark brown. — brunnea Griinb. (7 c) has a yellow body and hindwing, brannea. 
with smaller spots in the forewing, which, on the contrary, are larger and particularly longer in longimacula longimacu- 
Strd. ■ — In laureola Drc. the red bordering of the cellular spots in the forewing is absent, but they are larger. ? ? Ja ‘ 
West Africa. — erubescens Joic. <£■ Talb., probably a separate species from the Belgian Congo, has the erubescens. 
forewing suffused with reddish, and only 4 postcellular spots. 
caeruleifas- 
B. caeruleifascia Wkr. (7 d). The $ is quite similar to the preceding species, separated by black da. 
abdominal belts and by the lowest of the 4 subapical spots being proximally removed; sometimes there is 
below this spot another accessory fifth very small spot. The <$ has 2 red cellular spots and 1 large yellow-centred 
submedian spot and yellow hindwings. — In the form ehrmaffili Holl. (7 f) the $ shows larger white spots, whilst chrmanni. 
in the <$ the red ones are increased in number. Sierra Leone. 
B. umbra Drc. (= speculifera Griinb.) (7 e). The hyaline spots of the subapical band are in a straight umbra. 
row, the spot 4 is not proximally removed, and there is a small hyaline double spot in the centre of the 
hindwing. Cameroon. 
B. nigripennis Aur. (= gloriosa Jord., obliterata Griinb.) (7 e) is blackish-brown. Abdomen with nigripennis. 
red rings, forewing with G hyaline spots, similar to preussi-9. West and Central Africa. 
B. ochracea Wkr. (= conradti Oberth.) (7 e, f). Walker’s type seems to have been lost; if the species ochracea. 
is correctly described by Lord Rothschild, the $ is ochreous yellowish-brown with 1 yolk-coloured spot each 
in, below and behind the cell; the $ is also lighter yellowish-red than most of the other species; the discal chain 
of spots is distally convex, the small spot in the cell very small, the one below it large; abdomen of $ with 
dull black rings. West Africa. 
Be rattrayi Rothsch. (7 d, e) is very similar to ochracea , but the light spots in both sexes are increased, rattrayi. 
Uganda. 
B. bates! Drc. (7 f). In the forewing the discal spots are arranged in 2 groups; 2 or 3 before the apex batesi. 
and 3 or 4 around the cell-end. The spots are in both sexes somewhat hyaline sulphur-coloured, surrounded 
with purple. Below the costa of the forewing a purple stripe. — Inab. congoensis Rothsch. the subcostal purple congoensis. 
streak is absent and the spots are rather small; — in ab. ugandae Rothsch. the purple streak is absent and ugandae. 
the hindwing is lighter yellow. West Africa. — In ab. elegantissima Strd., which may belong to flavimacula, elegantissi- 
the yellow spots are increased. ma - 
B 0 Humphrey! Rothsch. (7 d). Body golden yellow; in the dark brown forewing there are 2 spots in Immphreyi. 
and below the centre of the cell, 2 at the cell-end, and 1 or 2 at the base of the wing; the subapical spots 
are absent. Hindwing of a deep reddish yellow, towards the costa lighter. The $ seems not to be known. 
Nigeria. 
B. rabricincta Holl. (5e) is discernible by the white body with purple markings and rings. Fore wing rubricincta. 
reddish ochreous with a white costal-marginal stripe and in the whitish disc; hindwing purple red. West 
Africa. -— In furva Hmps. (7 e) the lighter part is larger and purer, the ground-colour of the forewing si darker, furva. 
so that 2 small white guttiform spots are more conspicuous. Gold Coast. 
B. elegans Aur. (= damalis Holl.) (5f). Body dark brown; vertex, and sides at the base of the elegans. 
abdomen in the purple, collar white. Forewing dark chestnut-brown around the cell-end, a group of white 
patches; hindwing orange; in the $ the body is more uni-coloured, but the abdomen shows black bands; the 
