508 Rev. K. St. Aiibyn Rogers' Bionomic Notes on 



group is the female of Plancma aganice, Hew., form mon- 

 tana, Butler, which is found commonly in many localities 

 in East Africa. Associated with it are the white-marked 

 forms of the female of the common Acnea esebria, Hew., 

 and of A. car mentis, Doubl., which I have once received 

 from Kilimanjaro. I have also once taken the female of a 

 Pseicdacr/va* probably the eastern representative of the 

 western F. hircc, Drury. This white-marked female is a 

 beautiful mimic of the female Planema. These three 

 species are so similar in pattern and flight that I do not 

 think it is possible to distinguish them on the wing. They 

 all have the characteristic leisurely flight of the Aciwinie, 

 and, from their large size and strongly contrasted black 

 and white colouring, are distinctly suggestive of the 

 Amauris niavius dominicanus- centred combination. Other 

 mimetic resemblances of and between the males of these 

 two common Acrseas will be described on p. 523. They 

 are considered with the other Ac')\'va-centved combinations, 

 because the pattern of the males does not, like that of the 

 females, enter into a distant relationship with any of the 

 Amauris-centred associations. 



Another outlying member belonging to the same sub- 

 family is the female of Acriea scitis, Ward, which I have 

 found not unfrequently in the Coast district, and even on 

 Mombasa island. Here again, although the details of 

 marking are very different, in size and colour the 

 species certainly approaches this great black and white 

 combination. 



Picrinm. Professor Poulton has suggested that Gluto- 

 flirissa saha, Fab., $, should be regarded as an outlying 

 member of the combination, but as far as my experience 

 goes this species is always an unmistakable Pierine, and 

 does not resemble the other members in its habits or 

 appearance.-]- 



Papilioninie. I am someAvhat more doubtful as to the 

 position of Papilio pliilonoe, Ward, which certainly has a 

 floating flight. It bears more resemblance to Pseudacrxa 

 lucrctia exi')ansa than to any other member of the com- 

 bination, but the white areas are much more extensive 

 and it can always be easily recognised. 



* Pseudacrxa rogersi, sp. nov. See Appendix, p. 549. 



t Mr. Roland Trinien suggested in 1881 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 p. vii) that the $ saba might be a mimic of the widely-spread and 

 evidently protected African Hypsid moth, Nydemera apicalis, Walk. 



