African Species of the Genus Acraea. 281 



I have figured (PL VI, f. 3) one of the larvae sent by 

 Mr. Lamborn from Lagos. They agree with Aurivillius' 

 description though his examples were taken in Cameroon. 

 It may be added that there is a fairly conspicuous pale 

 lateral line, and a whitish bifurcated mark on the head. 

 The pupae also agree with Aurivillius' figure. 



The ^ A. imrrhasia presents comparatively little varia- 

 tion though the % is less stable. Generally speaking 

 the latter tends to greater transparency in the extreme 

 western part of its range, this feature reaching its maximum 

 • development at Sierra Leone in the % f. Icona. The 

 latter however occurs in company with examples which 

 differ but little from those bred further east, near Lagos, 

 these forming a perfect transition to the oppidia form at 

 Fernando Po. From thence eastward the transparency 

 appears to increase again slightly since Cameroon 

 examples are described as resembling the oppidia f., but 

 having more transparent f.-w., more faded, yellowish-red 

 li.-w., and an inwardly less sharply defined outline of the 

 i.-w. white subapical spots. 



103. Acraea penelope. PI. XIII, f. 18. 



Acraea penelupe, Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 195 (1896); Aurivillius, 

 Rhop. Aeth., p. 113 (1898); Griinberg, Sitzb. Ges. nat. 

 Fr., p. 150 (1910). 

 = pomponia, Grose-Smitli, Novit. Zool., vii, p. 545 (1900) ; 

 Rhop. Exot. (Acraea), 7, p. 25, pi. 7, f. 7, 8 (1901) ; Neave, 

 Novit. Zool., 11, p. 346 (1904). 

 Congo (Kassai R., Benabendi, Kwilu, Aruwimi R., Ft. 

 Beni) ; Uganda (Msarosaro, Toro, Port Alice, Mondo, Entebbe, 

 Kampala, Sesse I.). 

 $ f. argentea, f. no v. 

 Uganda (Entebbe). 

 9 f. exalbescens, f. nov. 



Uganda (Toi-o, Kampala). 

 5 f. penella, f. nov. 

 Uganda (Kitanwa). 



A. penelope vitrea, subsp, nov. 



British E. Africa (Tiriki Hills, Kabras). 



A, penelope deruhescens, subsp. nov. 



ToGOLAND (Misahohe Station). 

 A. penelope transhccida, subsp. nov. 



Lagos (Oni). 



