88 Mr. H. Eltiingham's Monograph of the 



My figure is from a Lagos example which agrees gener- 

 ally with Aurivillius' description. 



The pupa is Yellowish with black nervnre lines, black markings 

 on the head, a black band divided by two pale lines on thorax, 

 and fine black lines ornamented with pale ?pots on the abdomen. 



The larva aud pupa of z. acara are described by Trimen 

 (Z. c). 



The former is oclireous yellow, each segment with a broad 

 purplish red transverse band. Black spines long and branched 

 arising from tubercles on the dark bands. The fi.rst two dorsal 

 spines longer than the rest, erect. Head ochreous yellow, legs 

 and prolegs purplish red. " Feeds on Paasiflora." Pupa, pink- 

 ish white, with black neuration and limb markings. Lines of 

 rose pink spots in row^s of wide continuous black spots. Under- 

 side of abdomen tinged in middle with rose pink, and two pink 

 dorsal spots on thorax and one at base of wings. Head ochreous 

 yellow. 



Allowing for the fact that Tri men's descriptions were 

 made from live or fresh examples, the larva and pupa of 

 zetes and acara may be regarded as very similar. 



At the Hope Department at Oxford, examples of pupae 

 of z. zetes have recently been received, together with 

 several specimens of a dipterous parasite (Fam. Tachin- 

 iclae), which had emerged therefrom, also a batch of small 

 parasitic cocoons which had been formed from a larva of 

 zetes. These cocoons appear to be those of a hymenop- 

 terous parasite but the insects had emerged and e.scaped. 



Acraea zetes is a variable species, the subspecies acara 

 showing a wider range of variation than the typical 

 western form. Godart's A. jalema is intermediate between 

 z. zetes and z. acara. Felder's caffra is the form of acara 

 having a white discal patch in the h.-w. Suffert's tescea. 

 differs but little from this form. Examples from Entebbe 

 show a distinctlv intermediate form having the cn-ound- 

 colour of the 'i.-\^. red, but lacking the orange subapical 

 patch characteristic of true z. o.cara. Neave found zetes in 

 the Katanga country W. of the Luapula R. and z. acarci in 

 the Chambesi and Luangwa valleys. On Chishi I., 

 L. Bangweolo the same naturalist took examples of an 

 interesting form, two of which are now in the Oxford col- 

 lection. These specimens are peculiar in having the discal 

 spots of the h.-w. reduced to mere dots, causing them to 



