African Species of the Genus Acraea. 97 



ing two or three more larvae of the same species, in 

 colour it is a bright shiny red-rustet shaded into deep 

 yellow at the extremities, the spines are long, furry and 

 black. The pupa is dingy white in ground-colour, the 

 wing case the same, but heavily outlined and veined in 

 black, the rows of abdominal spots are deep orange, very 

 heavily surrounded with black." 



The species extends right across Africa from Damara- 

 land to Delagoa Bay and thence northwards to Britisli 

 E. Africa. It has been noted by both Dixey and Marshall 

 as having an unpleasant smell. Though distinct from 

 A. astrigera it is so closely allied to A. wehvitschii that it 

 is somewhat doubtful whether each should be accorded 

 specific rank. There is a slight difference in the structure 

 of the respective ^ genital plates. I have however seen 

 specimens of anemosa $ which could not with certainty 

 be distinguished by colour and pattern from some $ $ of 

 welwitsch'ii lobemhu. The form uriingensis has this 

 appearance. 



33. Acraea welwitschii. PI. VIII, f. 7. 



Acraea ivelivitschii, Rogenliofer, Verh. Ges. Wien, 42, p. 573-4, 

 f. 1 ( ? abd.) (1892) ; AurivilUus, Rhop. Aeth., p. 91, f. 10 (?) 

 (1898). 

 = ammosa, var. Dewitz, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., 41, 2, p. (17) (189), 



(1879).* 

 Angola (Loanda, Ceramba, Bange Ngola, Bumba). 



A. welwitschii alhoradiata, subsp. 



= A. anemosa, ab., Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 91 (1898) ; 

 Trimen, S. Af, Butt., 1, p. 158 (1887) ; Proc, Zool. Soc, 

 p. 28 (1894). 

 Victoria Falls. 



A. welwitscliii lobemba, subsp. n. 



= A. wehvitschii, Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 12, pi. 1, f. 2 

 (1910). 



L. BaNGWEOLO ; LUALABA R. 



A. welwitschii wehcitschii. PI. II, f. 4(|^), f. 5 ( 9 ). 



cJ. Expanse 50-64 mm. F.-w. bright red. A basal black 

 patch of somewhat irregular outline, extending about half the 

 length of cell and thence to inner margin, not encroaching upon 

 area 2. Costa dusted with black. A hind-marginal band of 



* I have examined the example described by Dewitz, and it agrees 

 with the typical 5 of iDehntschii. 



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