ACRAEINAE 
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acraea 
Subfamily ACRAEINAE. 
Ovum. Much higher than wide: reticulate at apex, and from thence radiating in numerous broad 
flattened ribs crossed by distinct lines. ’ I . 
TjAhva. Cylindrical: with brandling s|)ines: of gregarious habit. (Fig. L6). 
Pupa. Long, smooth and slender: thorax angulated: suspended by the tail. (Fig. P6). 
Imago. Of moderate size: wings smoothly rounded. Forewing with twelve veins: vein 11 runninf' 
free to costa: cell closed: veitvla not forked at base. Hindwing with cell dosed, and teriuen rounded. 
Antennae long and slender: eyes smooth: abdomen with a corneous pouch beneath in the female. 
Eaxge. Confined to the tropics and subtropics, reaching its highest development in Africa. A few 
species only occur in the Indo-Australian Legion. 
Genus ACRAEA Fabric.ius. 
Illiger's Magazine, vi, 1807, p. 284. 
Antennae about half the length of costa, with clubs long, gi'adual and slender. Eyes smooth. Fore- 
^\lng long and narrow: vein 11 from subcostal before end of cell: vein 10 from vein 7 well beyond end of 
ceil. Hindwing with vein G and vein 7 arising close together, l)ut not stalked. (Fig. S.). 
Fig. S. Wing venation of 
Acraea andromacha. 
4'ype. Acraea horta Linne, from Africa. 
77. Acraea andromacha Fabricius. Fig. 6. 
Systema Entomologiae, p. 466, n. 102, 1775. 
c?. Auove. Forewing transparent: cell and area la thinly scaled cream: apex and ternien dusted black: 
a series of basal sj^ots, a bar aci’oss cell and a bar at end of cell, black: an interrui)ted series of faint 
discal spots, black. Hindwing cream: base and termen black: two small spots at end of cell and an 
irregular series of diseal spots, black: a series of terminal dots, cream. 
Beneath. Forewing entirely devoid of scales. Hindwing as above: terminal dots larger. 
2 . Above and Beneath as in male: abdomen with a corneous pouch beneath. 
Loc. Cape York 4 12. Prince of Wales Is. 5 G 7. Claudie R. 11. Cairns G 7 S 9 10. Kuranda 6 7. 
Ingham 4 o 9., Townsville 0 7. Mackay 1 2 3 5 8 9. Brisbane 4 5 G 10. Stradbroke Is. 12. Black- 
butt 1. Mt. Tambourine 12. Kiehmond R. 2 3 4.^ioEbor 1. Port Alacquarie 10. j\Ianning h.Jj E- 
Narrabi’i 5. Sydney 4. Blue Alts. 4. Derby. Wvndham 3 4 5. Darwin S. Roper R. 
11. 40o’ 319. 
