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regard the aurivillii f. of A. alciope as a subspecies, since 

 it occurs with the typical form in Cameroon as well as 

 in Uganda, and probably occasionally in the intervening 

 country. It is an interesting fact that at Entebbe, where 

 this is the usual form of ^, it habitually tlies with the 

 Flanema which it so closely resembles, whilst the typical 

 $, which is much the commonest form in its western 

 range, also accompanies an entirely different Plancma 

 which it appears to imitate. Uganda examples of A. 

 alciope $ seem often to have the black distal border in 

 the h.-w. broader than in more western specimens. 



128. ACRAEA JODUTTA. PI. XIV, f. 10. 



Acraea jodutta, Fabricius (Pap.), Ent. Syst., 3, 1, p. 175 (1793)* ; 

 Butler (A), Fabr. Lepid., p. 130 (1869) ; Aurivillius, Rliop. 

 Aeth., p. 116 (1898) ; Ann. Mus. Genov., 3, iv, p. 20 

 (513) (1910); Eltringham, Af. Mini. Butt., p. 80 (1910); 

 Griinberg, Sitzb. Ges. nat. Fr., p. 150 (1910). 

 ^ = flojva, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Nat. Cur., 41, 2, No. 2, p. 19, 

 pi. 1, f. 10 (1879). 

 = gea, Moschler, Abhandl. Senckenb. Ges., 15, p. 55 (1887). 

 Senegal ; S. Leone ; Ashanti ; Cameroon ; Nigeria ; 

 Prince's I.; Uganda (Entebbe); British E. Africa (Kisumu); 

 Nyassaland. 



$ f. cdrmentis, Doubl. Hew. and Westw., Gen. Di. Lep., 

 p. 140, pi. 19, f. 1 (1848). 

 = Planema dorotJieae 5 , E. M. B. Sharpe, Entomologist, 



p. 135 (1902). 

 Appears liable to occur throughout the range of the species. 

 5 f. dorutheae. 

 = Planema dorotheae " ^ ,'' E. M. B. Sharpe, Entomologist, 



p. 135 (1902). 

 = jodutta, $ var., Eltringham, Af. Mim. Butt., p. 81, pi. 8, 

 f. 9 (1910). 

 Uganda (Entebbe) ; British E. Africa (Kisuma). . 

 $ f. interjecta, f. nov. 



British E. Africa (Tiriki). 

 9 f. subfidva, f. nov. 

 S. Leone. 



* The type is evidently a $ , as it is described as black with 

 white markings. Westwood's copy of Jones' figure in " Icones " (ined.) 

 shows a (^ with buff markings, but there is a note beneath it in 

 Westwood's writing mentioning that Jones' figure is uncoloured. 



