198 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



GROUP XII. 



76. ACRAEA ANACREON. PL XIII, f. 3. PL XV, f. 22. PI. XVI, 



f. 14. 



Acraea anacreon, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc., ]!. 77, pi. 6, f. 3-5 



(1868): I.e., p. 347 (1870); S. Af. Butt., 1, p. 168 (1887) ; 



Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 552 (1896) ; Butler, Proc. 



Zool. Soc, p. 841 (1897) ; Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 107 (1897) ; 



Aurivillius, Rliop. Aeth., p. 96 (1898). 



Basutoland ; Natal ; Transvaal ; Kaffirland ; Nyassa- 



LAND (Kigonsera) ; German E. Aii'RiCA (Unyika) ; Cape Colony. 



A. anacreon bomba, subsp. 



Grose-Smith, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), 3, p. 128 (1889) ; Smith and 

 Kirby, Rhop. Exot., 19 (Acraea), p. 8, pi. 3, f. 5, 6 (1892) ; 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 96 (1898). 

 = induna (f. aestiv.), Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 184, pi. 5, 

 f. 3, 3a (1895); Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 905 (1898); 

 Neave, Proc Zool. Soc., p. 16 (1910). 

 Angola (Bailundu) ; N.E. Rhodesia (Chanibezi Valley, L, 

 Bangweolo); Mashonaland; Nyassaland; German E. Africa; 

 British E. Africa (Mombasa). 



A. anoxreon anacreontica, subsp. 



Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., 5, p. 352 (1898) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. 



Aeth., p. 96 (1898). 

 British E. Africa (Nandi, W. Slopes of Mt. Kenia 6,500 ft.). 



A. anacreon speciosa, subsp. 



Wichgraf, Berl. Ent. Zeit., p. 245, pi. 6, f. 9 (1908). 

 Angola (Ceramba, Bihe). 



A. anacreon anacreon. 



(J . Expanse 50-52 mm. Deep golden orange with black, 



spots and markings. F.-w. somewhat narrow and anguiated, 



narrowly black along costa. A black hind-marginal band 



5 mm. wide at apex and tapering off to\ arda hind angle. On 



this border a marginal row of spots of the ground-colour 



narrow and elongated at apex but becoming shorter and 



rounder towards hind angle. Above subcostal in the subapical 



region the ground-colour is distinctly paler (sometimes 



whitish) and beneath this is sometimes an indication of a 



pale subapical patch. A slight powdering of black at base. 



Spots rather variable. One large spot in cell just beyond 



origin of nervule 2 and a mark on the discocellulars. Beyond end 



of cell a row of two to three discal spots in 6, 5, and 4, and lying 



