African S'pccies of the Genus Acraea. 101 



specimens at Tring. With it is one $ and four $$ 

 from tlie same locality, and these specimens are as here 

 described. All have white patches on the h.-w., and 

 in this respect, as also in the ground-colour, they differ 

 from the examples described by Neave. The latter 

 I must therefore regard as a subspecies of typical wel- 

 witschii. Aurivillius' figure agrees more nearly witli this 

 form than with the type. So far as I am aware the 

 t3^pical $ is here described for the first time. Rogenhofer, 

 in order to distinguish between his species and cincmosa 

 gives text figures of the female " seal " of each species 

 and points out certain differences. This peculiar structure 

 is not however reliable for the discovery of minute differ- 

 ences. I have placed a female of eacli form untler the 

 microscope, in sucli a position that the extremity of each 

 abdomen could be clearly seen in the field at the same 

 time, and in this case the two structures appeared to be 

 identical as indeed we should exj^ect when the male organs 

 are so very similar. 



The type form of wchvitsrhii is known to me only 

 from Angola, those before me bearing the labels Loanda, 

 Ceramba, Bange Ngola, and Bumba. The subspecies 

 alhorcidiata appears to occur only in the neighbourhood 

 of the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi. The specimen 

 described by Trimen as a variety of ancmosa, is labelled 

 Damaraland, and as a strip of the northern part of that 

 province almost reaches the neighbourhood of the Falls, 

 the example may have been taken in that region. The sub- 

 species lahcmbei was taken in large numbers by Neave in 

 the region of L. Bangweolo, and a few examples as 

 far W. as the Lualaba River. 



34. Acraea i'seudolycia. PI. VIII, f. 8. 



Acraea pseudolycia, Butler, Cist. Ent., 1, p. 213 (1874); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, p. 6.^8 (1893) ; Aurivillius (A. zetes, var.), Rhop. 

 Aeth., p. 91 (1898) ; Eltringham, Novit. Zool., xviii, p. 

 151 (1911). 

 Angola (Puiigo Andongo, Canhoca). 

 f. astrhjera, Butler {A. adrirjera), Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 421, pi. 25, 

 f. 5 (1899) ; Suifert, Iris., p. 23 (1904) ; Xeave, Proc. Zoo). 

 Soc, p. 12 (1910). 

 British E. Africa (Machakos, Campi-y-Simba, Ft. Hall, 

 Kenya); Rhodesia (near L. Young); German E. Africa 

 (Mpwapwa, Usambara, Mlionda, l^ln he, Ugogo, Ruk\v a). 



