African Species of the Genus Acraca. 323 



Aeth., p. 116 (1898); (metamorph.), Ent. Tidskr., 14, 

 p. 278, pi. 5, f. 3 (1883). 

 Gold Coast; Ashanti; Calabar; Cameroon; Fernando 

 Po ; Congo (Maringa, Kassai R., Stanley Pool, Bopoto, Ft. Beni). 



$ f. cretacea, f . nov. 



= alcioiJC ? Poulton, Bedrock, 1, p. G3, f. U (1912). 



Lagos. 

 $ f.fitmida, f. nov. 

 Lagos. 



5 f. aurivillii. 

 = A. aurivillii, Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 209, pi. 2, f. 2 (1896) ; 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 117 (1898) ; Eltrmgl.ain, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc, p. Ixvii (1909) ; Af. Mini. Butt., p. 45, 

 pi. 8, f. 4 (1910). 

 = Plane,Ha allcui P , Qrose-Smitb, Novit. Zool. vn, p. 546 

 (1900) ; Smith and Kirby, Eliop. E.xot. (Acraea), 8, p. 30, 

 pi. 8, f. 11 (1901). 

 = alciope ? Poulton, Bedrock, p. 62, ft". 7, 14 (1912). 

 Cameroon to Uganda (Toro, Entebbe). 

 f. latifasciata, Grunberg, Sitzb. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, p. 164 



(1910). 

 9 f. tella, f. nov.* 



= Planema alicia " S ," Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., p. 546 

 (1900) ; Smitli and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. (Acmea), 8, p. 30, 

 pi. 8, f. 9, 10 (1901). 

 = alciope 9 Poulton, Bedrock, p. G2, f. 12 (1912). 

 Uganda (Entebbe, Pt. Alice). 

 A. alciope schecana, subsp., Roth, and Jord., Novit. Zool., 

 xii,p. 184 (1905) ; Eltringham, Af. Mim. Butt., p. 44 (1910). 

 Abyssinia (Scheko). 

 A. alciope alciope. PI. VI, f. 10 (larva). 



^. Expanse, 54-64 mm. F.-w. Cell, base of la, lb, 3, 4, 5, 

 and 6, costa, apex, and hind margin brown-black. Remainder 

 golden ochreous, this colour forming an angulated band across 

 the wing, narrow at costa, and proceeding downwards and 

 outwards to nervule 3, where it becomes wider, occupying 

 the whole of area 2 except the hind margin, and reaches its 

 maximum width on inner margin. 



H..W. golden ochreous. A very little brown black at base, 

 and a hind-marginal border of the same colour some 3-4 mm. 



* The name alicia cannot be retained, as I indicated in Proc. Ent. 

 Soc, I. c. (1909). 



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