256 Mr. H. Eltringham's Monograph of the 



The species can be recognised quite easily in spite 

 of its variability by the peculiar bifurcated formation of 

 the internervular rays especially on the h.-w.. each with 

 its enclosed streak. The general pattern also is not like 

 that of any other species of the genus. 



The type was received from Mukenge in the southern 

 central part of the Congo State, and has the yellow h.-w. 

 band rather narrower than in the Uganda specimens. The 

 f. nibrofasciata has been received from Bangala in the 

 Upper Congo and Nyam Nyam.and also from Bitje in the 

 Cameroons. Of the subspecies pseudeimea I have seen only 

 the two ^^ and one $, in Mr. Dudgeon's collection. 



Our knowledge of this peculiar species has increased 

 greatly in recent years. It is chiefly remarkable for the 

 number of its polymorphic forms which for the most part 

 exhibit mimetic patterns. We have the typical ^ and also 

 the ruhrofasciata and 2^seude2Mea forms. Of the $$ one is 

 black and white resembling ^ examples of jodntta, one 

 more or less like its own ^, one of the ruhrofasciata form, 

 one resembling the ^j'odutta, and one resembling PL tellus. 

 Both sexes of the pseudepaea form resemble PI. epaea. 



GROUP XVI. 



95. ACRAEA PHARSALUS. PI. XIV, f. 8. 



Acraea pharsalus, Ward, Ent. Mo. Mag., 8, p. 81 (1871) ; Af. 



Lep., p. 8, pi. 6, f. 7, 8 (1873) ; Dewitz, Nov. Act. Nat. 



Cur., 41, 2, No. 2, p. 5 (177) (1879) ; Mabille, Nat. Hist. 



Mad. Lep., 1, p. 100, pi, 12, f. 3,4 (1885-7) ; Karsch, Berl. 



Ent. Zeit., 38, p. 195 (1893) ; Aurivillius (metam.), Ent. 



Tidskr., 14, p. 275, pi. 4, f. la, lb, Ic, Id (1893) ; Rhop. 



Aeth., p. 110 (1898) ; Lathy, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 186 (1903) ; 



Neave, Novit. Zool., 11, p. 346 (1904) ; Strand, Wien. 



Ent. Zeit, 29, 1, p. 29 (1910) ; Aurivillius, Ann. Mus. 



Gen., p. 19 (.512), 25 (518), (1910) ; Griinberg, Sitzb. Ges. 



Nat. Fr., p. 150 (1910). 

 Senegal ; S. Leone ; Lagos ; Gold Coast ; Ashanti ; Ivory 

 Coast ; Nigeria ; Cameroon ; Fernando Po ; Prince's I. ; 

 Angola; Congo (Ituri Forest; Katanga) ; Nyassaland; German 

 E. Africa; British E. Africa ; Uganda. 



f. pharsaloides, Holland, Entomologist, Suppl., p. 89(1892); 

 Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., p. 232, pi. 7, f. 3 (1895) ; p. 747 



