African Species of the Genus Acraca. 323 



Aeth., p. 116 (1898); (metaraorph.), Ent. Tidskr., 14, 

 p. 278, pi. 5, f. 3 (1883). 

 Gold Coast; Ashanti; Calabar; Cameroon; Fernando 

 Po ; Congo (Maringa, Kassai R., Stanley Pool, Bopoto, Ft. Beni). 

 $ f. cretacea, f. nov. 



= alciope ? Poulton, Bedrock, 1, p. 63, f. 11 (1912). 

 Lagos. 

 9 f. fumida, f. nov. 



Lagos. 

 $ f. aicrivillii. 

 = A. aurivilUi, Staudinger, Iris, 9, p. 209, pi. 2, f. 2 (1896) ; 

 Aiirivillins, Rhop. Aeth., p. 117 (1898) ; Eltringham, 

 Proc. Ent. Soc, p. Ixvii (1909) ; Af. Mini. Butt., p. 45, 

 pi. 8, f. 4 (1910). 

 = Flanema alicia ? , Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool. vii, p. 546 

 (1900) ; Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. {Acraea), 8, p. 30, 

 pi. 8, f. 11 (1901). 

 = alciope ? Poulton, Bedrock, p. 62, ff. 7, 14 (1912). 

 Cameroon to Uganda (Toro, Entebbe), 

 f, latifaseiata, Giiinberg, Sitzb. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, p. 164 



(1910). 

 $ f. tella, f. nov.* 

 = Planema alicia " ^ ," Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool., p. 546 

 (1900) ; Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot. (Acraea), 8, p. 30, 

 pi. 8, f. 9, 10 (1901). 

 = alciope 2 Poulton, Bedrock, p. 62, f. 12 (1912). 

 Uganda (Entebbe, Pt. Alice). 

 A. alciope achecana, subsp., Roth, and Jord., Novit. Zool., 

 xii, p. 184 (1905) ; Eltringham, Af. Mini. Butt., p. 44 (1910). 

 Abyssinia (Scheko). 

 A. alciope alciope. PI. VI, f. 10 (larva). 



^ . Expanse, 54-64 mm. F.-w. Cell, base of la, lb, 3, 4, 5, 

 and 6, costa, apex, and hind margin brown-black. Rehiainder 

 golden ochreou.^, this colour forming an angulated band across 

 the wing, narrow at costa, and proceeding downwards and 

 outwards to nervule 3, where it becomes wider, occupying 

 the whole of area 2 except the hind margin, and reaches its 

 maximum width on inner margin. 



H.-w. golden ochreous. A very little brown black at base, 

 and a hind-margiual border of the same colour some 3-4 mm. 



* The name alicia cannot be retained, as I indicated in Proc. Ent. 

 Soc, /. c. (1909). 



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