African Species of the Genus Acraea. 221 



= ainthia, Herbst., {Pap.) Naturs. Schmett., 4, p. 198, pi. 80, 

 f. 1, 2 (1790); Godart, (A.) Enc. Meth., 9, p. 234 (1819). 



= eponina $ (2nd f.), Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 202 (1896). 



Portuguese Guinea to Cameroon ; French Congo ; Fer- 

 nando Po; Congo State to L. Tanganyika and Toro ; 

 German E. Africa (Rualia R.). 



'5 f. praeponina, Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 202 (1896) ; Anrivil- 

 lius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 105 (1898). 

 Congo (Kuilu). 



•? f. siahona, Suffert, Iris, p. 32 (1904). 

 Togo (Misaliohe Stn.). 



A. bonasia alieia, subsp. 



= A. alieia, Em. M. B. Sharpe, Ann. Nat. Hist. (6), 5, p. 442 

 (1890) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 105 (1898) ; Butler, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 420 (1899) ; Heron, Trans. Zool. Soc, 

 xix, p. 146 (1909) ; Grunberg, Sitzb. Ges. Nat. Fr., p. 150 

 (1910). 



■$ = cappadox, Oberthur, Etud. d'Ent., 17, p. 23, pi. 1, f. 2 

 (1893). 



^ = planesiutn, Oberthiir, I. c, p. 24, pi. 1, f. 11 (1893). 



Cameroon (Barombi) ; Congo (Ruwenzori) ; Uganda (Toro, 

 Entebbe, Sesse I.) ; British E. Africa (Kisumu, Kenya). 



$ f. cabimides, Poulton, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 529 (1908). 

 British E. Africa (Ft. Hall, Kikuyu). 



9 f. tenelloides, Poulton, I.e., p. 531 (1908). 

 British E. Africa (Ft. Hall, Kikuyu). 



A. bonasia baidca, subsp. nov. 

 Abyssinia (Banka, Malo). 



A. bonasia bonasia. PI. VI, ff. 11, 12 (larvae). 



<^ . Expanse 40-44 mm. F.-w. warm black. A tawny red 

 oblique subapical patch about 2 mm. -wide in 10, 9, 6, 5, 'and 4. 

 Lower half of cell, base of 3, proximal half of 2 (except a small 

 portion at base) and distal central part of lb, and la tawny 

 red. Usually also a red streak just beneath median which may 

 extend from wing base to origin of 2, or may be reduced to a 

 small mark. 



H.-w. with a triangular basal patch of greyish black, the 

 outer edge of which is roughly continuous in a straight line 

 with the adjacent black of the f.-w. Central portion of wing 

 tawny red. Hind margin black about 3 mm. wide slightly 

 invaded by the discal red in areas 3 and 4. 



