94 Mr. H.. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



GROUP V. 



32. ACRAEA ANEMOSA. PI. VIII, f. 6. PI. XVI, f. 18. 



Acraea anemosa, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. (Acraea), pi. 3, f. 14, 1& 

 (1865); Trimen, S. Af. Butt., 1, p. 157 (1887) ; Rogenhofer, 

 Verh. d. k. k. z. b. Ges. Wien., 42, p. 574 (? abd., f. 2> 

 (1892); Aiirivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 91 (1898); Butler, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 54 (1898); I.e., p. 192 (1898); I.e., 

 p. 401 (1898) ; Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 413 (1902) ; 

 Dixey, Proc. Ent. Soc, p. iii (1906) ; Longstaff, Proc. Ent, 

 Soc, p. xii (1906); Rogers, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 525 (1908) ;, 

 Neave, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 12 (1910) ; Fountaine (metam.). 

 Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 60, pi. 10, f. IGa, 16b (1911). 



Damaraland ; Khama's Country ; Transvaal ; Swazi- 

 land ; Zambesi R. (Victoria Falls) ; Rhodesia ; Portuguese 

 E. Africa ; German E. Africa ; British E. Africa, 



f. arcticincta, Butler (^4. arcticincta), Ann. Nat. Hist. (5), 12, 

 p. 103 (1883) ; Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 658 (1893); Aurivillius, 

 Rhop. Aeth., p. 91 (1898). 

 = anemosa, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett, 1, p. 83, pi. 33 (1886). 

 (Appears not to be confined to any particular locality.) 



f. interrupta, Thurau, Berl. Ent. Zeit., p. 301 (1903). 

 Uganda. 



f. mosana, Suffert, Iris., p. 20 (1904). 

 (No loc) 



f. dubiosa, Suffert, I. e. 

 German E. Africa (Tanga) ; British E. Africa (Mombasa). 



f. nfipana. Strand, Mitt. d. Zool. Mus., Berl., p. 279 (1911). 

 German E. Africa (Mwera) ; Rhodesia (Alala Plateau). 



f. urungensis, Strand, I. e., 1911. 

 German E. Africa (Kitungulu), 



A . anemosa aneraosa. 



(^ . Expanse 60-70 mm. F.-w. deep yellow to orange. Costa 

 narrowly black. Hind margin black about 4 mm. wide at apex 

 rapidly narrowing to a thin black line which reaches the hind 

 angle. At base a black patch having a variably shaped but 

 usually well-defined outline, extending into cell as far as origin 

 of nervule 2, usually about the same distance into area lb, but 

 never into area 2. At end of cell on discocellulars a linear 

 black spot of variable width (sometimes absent). Beyond cell 



