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feature, and in other respects it agrees with examples taken by 

 Neave in the Katanga region. There are also intermediate 

 examples before me from the same locality. I have no hesitation 

 therefore in regarding svpponina as merely another form of 

 sotikensis, 



A. sotikensis rowena, subsp. 



Distinguished from typical form by having rather more black 

 on f.-w. and the central area of h.-w. is pale ochreous tinted with 

 orange on the upper half. H.-w\ marginal spots rarely present. 

 When visible they are pale ochreous and minute. The central 

 pale area of h.-w. underside is very pale yellow without any 

 trace of pink. I have not seen the $ . 



Four (J (J Mus. Tring. Similar forms in Mas. Brit., Mt. 

 Ruwenzori. 



Intermediate examples between the three , forms 

 described above may occasionally be found. Some ex- 

 amples from Toro, Unyoro, and Kondeland, in the Tring 

 collection, have the red colouring very pale, and the red 

 of f-w. cell is a mere streak. The h.-w. hind margin has 

 well-developed spots. 



89. ACRAEA CABIRA. PI. XIII, f. 9. 



Acraea cabira, Hoppfer, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 640 



(1855); Peters. Reise. Ins., p. 378, pi. 23, f. 14, 15 (1862); 



Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 205 (1896) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., 



p. 106 (1898) ; Aurivillius, Sjostedt's Exp., p. 4 (1910). 



= A. apecida yrt. Jiavomaculatns, Lanz, Iris, 9, p. 130 (1896).* 



Congo (Stanley Pool) ; Uganda (Unyoro) ; British E. 



Africa (Kibwezi, Kavirondo) ; German E. Africa (Ukerewe 



I., Muansa, Mamba) ; Rhodesia ; Nyassaland (Kigonsera, 



Bandawe); Natal ; Transvaal ; Portuguese E. Africa (Delagoa 



B.) ; Cape CoLONy. 



f. apecida, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Ent., 17, p. 23, pi. 2, f. 15 (1893) ; 

 Staudinger, Iris, p. 206 (1896) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., 

 p. 106 (1898); Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc., p. 53 (1898); 

 Neave, Novit. Zool, 11, p. 346 (1904) ; Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 

 27 (1910). 



* Except that the yellow band in h.-w. upperside is broader in 

 this form than in typical cabira, I cannot find any particular differ- 

 ence. The width of this band is so variable in a long serifis that 

 there seems no advantage in retaining this form name. 



