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PSEUDACRAEA EURYTUS 



adrasta in the Tring museum come from Usambara, but 

 it appears at present too rare to be claimed as a model 

 for rogersi, although the latter resembles it much more 

 closely than it does montana. In colouring, however, 

 the male rogersi approaches closely enough to the male 

 of its model, and the black and white female is a close 

 mimic of the female aganice montana. 



The following table shows at a glance the models and 

 mimics hitherto dealt with, arranged in geographical order 

 from the west to the east coast and then southwards, each 

 type of colouring and pattern having a row to itself. 



Species of Planema. 



(? ? 



epaea (J 

 epaea $ 

 tellus eumelis 

 macarista (J 

 macarista ? 

 macarista pscud- 



euryta (J 

 epaea paragea ^ ? 

 poggei cj $ 



9. aganice tnontana ^ 



10. aganice montana $ 



1 1 . aganice nyasce. • cJ 



12. aganice nyasce ^ ? 



13. aganice ^ 



14. aganice $ 

 16. aganice ^ (?) 



Forms of Pseudacraea 

 eurytus. 



eurytus (J 

 eurytus $ 

 terra (J ? 

 kobleyi (J 

 tirikenais $ 

 form of hobleyi ^ 



obscura <J ? 

 poggeaides $ 



rogersi ^ 

 rogersi $ 

 mlanjensis (J 

 mlanjensis $ 

 imitator cJ 

 imitator ? 

 form of imitator ^ 



Distribution (roughly) 



W. Africa 



W. Africa 



W. coast to Uganda 



W. coast to Uganda 



W. coast to Uganda 



W. border of Uganda 



Uganda 



Uganda, especiallyto 



its E. 

 Mombasa, E. coast 

 Mombasa, E. coast 

 Mt. Mlanje, Nyasaland 

 Mt.Mlanje, Nyasaland 

 Natal 

 Natal 

 W. Pondoland 



We have here fifteen forms of one species of Pseudacrdea 

 mimicking eight different species or subspecies of Planema. 

 Specific names were also given in the past to a large 

 number of other forms of Pseudacraea eurytus on the 

 west coast of Africa differing from the above, although 

 easily derivable from them by transitional varieties 

 known to exist, and these bear equally close mimetic 



* The names nyasce and mlanjensis have been chosen to distinguish 

 these geographical races of model and mimic. 



