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Acraea Moth

Acraea Moth (detail)
Acraea Moth (detail)

A western variety with the fore wings slightly shaded with brown has been dubbed dubia by Walker, and rickseckeri by Behr. In Mexico there is a local race in which the males have the hind wings white like the females, and to this race Hampson has applied the name mexicana. This is altogether one of the commonest insects in the Middle Atlantic States, and with the illustrations we have given can be easily determined.