Acraea parrhasia, the yellow-veined acraea, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae which is native to sub-Saharan Africa. Range It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Description A. parrhasia F. (57 a, 59 e) is so similar in the male to the preceding species [Acraea peneleos] that it is sufficient to mention the differences. Fore wing semitransparent only at the margins, at the base and on the veins with dense blackish scaling, in 1b and in 2 an elongate, reddish-scaled spot; the spot in 1b is often continued towards the base as a reddish stripe; the cell usually with two separated reddish spots; spots in cellules 3-6 diaphanous; on the underside of the fore wing the margins and the median are scaled with yellow; the under surface of the hindwing is almost uniform yellow without dark marginal band and with the proximal ends of the marginal streaks free. The female is similar to the male but has the fore wing more obtuse with more indistinct and more elongate reddish spots and with whitish-scaled spots in cellules 4-6, it differs from peneleos female in the absence of the dark marginal band on the underside of the hindwing. Larva brown with very long black spines and light lateral line. Pupa light-coloured with the normal black markings; dorsal spots on the abdomen broadly separated, quadrate with light median dot; segments 2-7 with well developed obtuse projections. Sierra Leone to the Cameroons. female f. oppidia Hew. (57 a) has the red spots of the forewing more distinct and the whitish spots in cellules 4-6 more sharply defined. Fernando Po. female f. parrhoppidia Stgr. The cell and cellules lb and 2 of the fore wing almost entirely red; spots 4-6 diaphanous. Cameroons. female f. leona Stgr. (= leonina Baker). Fore wing except at the margins almost diaphanous; hindwing above yellow-brown to the base, next to the narrow marginal band lighter yellowish; under surface as in the type-form but much lighter; is similar to the female of peneleos but more transparent and easy to recognize by the underside of the hindwing. Sierra Leone. A. servona. Median band on the upperside of the hindwing distally more or less rounded, nearly always lemon-yellow to sulphur-yellow; the streaks on the folds of the hindwing beneath are of uniform