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Show 192 MISS E. M. SHARPE ON N E W [Mar. 3, Exp. 2 inches. Hab. Sotik, Sept. 1889. Allied to B. raffrayi of Oberthiir (cf. Etudes d'Entomologie, p. 17, pis. i. &iii.). Subfam. ACRTEIN^;. 8. ACR/EA EXCELSIOR, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig. 3.) Of the same group as A. bonasia, but with a yellow subapical patch on the fore wing and a yellow patch on the hind wing. The underside differs from that of any species of Acrcea which I have yet seen. Fore wing. A large basal area of deep orange-rufous extending over two thirds of the cell and over all but the hind margin of the disc, so that it occupies the major portion of the wing. The base black, extending as a broad border along the costal margin to the apex, and round the hinder margin and along the inner margin, though here it is much narrower; where the rufous portion touches the black which borders it, there is a slight indication of a yellow intermediate line, near the costal margin and the outer posterior and inner marginal border. The subapical patch of pale yellow is tinged with rufous, and in shape is long and oval, extending from near the costal margin almost to the hind margin, crossing the base of the subcostal nervules and radial nervules almost to the posterior margin of the third median nervule. This yellow patch is separated from the rufous area by a black band from the costa to the hind margin. Hind wing. Basal area black, with a rufous spot above the subcostal nervure; the centre of the wing crossed by a broad band of yellow, from the costa to the inner margin, washed with rufous towards the former and above the disk ; the hind margin with a broad black band which occupies, at least, a quarter of the wing. Under surface. More than the basal half orange-rufous, streaked with yellow at the base and along the costal margin, which is otherwise dusky black as well as the apex and hind margin of the wing, the latter narrowing towards the anal angle and ornamented with a mesial streak of crimson on the hinder margin between each nervule. A yellow subapical patch is enclosed by a band of black, exactly as on the upper surface. Hind whig. Beautifully varied with yellow and crimson, the greater part of the wing being yellow. The base is crimson, enclosed in a triangular line of black, with a white spot at the base of the internal nervure. About the middle of the costal border is another triangular patch of crimson, enclosed by black, reaching to the hind margin of the discoidal cell. The hind margin of the wing is occupied by a broad border coequal with that of the upper surface, the nervules marked by a broad line of ashy black, the intervening spaces being crimson with a well-marked subterminal spot of white, the hind margin being fringed with black. |