African Species of the Genus Acraea. 269 



$ f. hehimaculata, f. n. 



Lagos. 

 $ f. lactiinaculata, f. n. 



Fernando Po. 

 9 f. sepia, f. n. 



Fernando Po. 



A. peneleos pelasgius, svibsp. n. 



= A pelasgius, Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., vii, p. 545 (1900), 



($ non (^); Rhop. Exot., iii (Acraea), vii, p 25, pi. 7, 



f. 9, 10 (1901) ; Neave, Novit. Zool., xi, p. 346 (1904); 



Gninberg (peneleos), Sitzb. Ges. nat. Fr., p. 150 (1910). 



Gaboon; Cameroon (Ja R.) ; Fr. Congo (Loango) ; Congo 



(Kassai R., Bopoto) ; Angola (Quanza R.) ; Uganda (Semliki 



Valley, Unyoro, Entebbe, Kampala, Port Alice, Sesse I.). 



A. peneleos gelonica, subsp. 



Rothschild and Jordan, Novit. Zool,, xii, p. 183 (1905). 

 Abyssinia (Upper Gelo R.). 



A. peneleos peneleos. PI. IV, f. \Q{$), f. 12($). PI. VI, f. 4 



(larva). 



^ . Expanse 52-58 mm. F.-w. narrow and somewhat pointed, 

 but less an^ulated than in A. parrhasia. Costa, apex, hind 

 margin, and inner margin sepia black, nervures and nervules 

 black, remainder semitransparent owing to reduction in number 

 rather than in size of scales. The most distal part of the trans- 

 parent area more sparsely scaled than the remainder. In 2 a 

 patch, variable in size, of pink or reddish scales, beneath this, in 

 area lb a similar but larger and more persistent patch often 

 extending as a linear mark to base of wing. A small elongated 

 pink or reddish submarginal spot in la. Sometimes a trace of 

 red in cell near base. A black spot at base of costa. 



H.-w. rosy red in fresh examples but fading to yellowish red. 

 A grey basal suffusion extending nearly or quite to end of cell, 

 and a sepia black hind-marginal border about 2 mm. wide, its 

 inner edge slightly edentate on nervules. Black spots as on 

 underside but those near inner margin often faintly indicated. 



Underside. F.-w. sparsely scaled and vitreous, the costa, 

 apex, and hind margin scaled with grey to ochreous, the nervule 

 ends and internervular rays dusted with umber brown. 



H.-w. basal suffusion and marginal border greenish grey, the 

 ends of nervules sometimes rather broadly dusted with brown. 

 Between them short narrow internervular rays reaching the 

 margin. Discal area ochreous. Black spots rather variable, as 

 follows : — An outer row of three spots graduated iu size lying 



