African Species of the Genus Acraea. 337 



A. lycoa fallax, subsp. 



Rogenhofer (Planema), Ann. d. K. K. Naturhist. Hofmus, 



Wien. 6, p. 459, pi. 15, f. 6 (1891) ; Butler, Proc. Zool. 



Soc.,p. 113(1896); Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 115 (1898) ; 



Poulton, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 305, pi. 21, f. la, 2a (1906) ; 



Heron, Trans. Zool. Soc, xix, p. 147 (1909); Eltringham, 



Af. Mini. Butt., p. 47, pi. 3, f. 24, 25 (1910) ; Trans. Ent. 



Soc, p. 13, pi. 1, f. 7 (1911). 

 = kilimandjam, Obertliur, Etud. d'Ent. 17, p. 26, pi. 2, f. 17 



(1893) ; Butler, Proc Zool. Soc, p. 113 (1896) ; Poulton, 



Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 305 (1906). 

 German E. Africa (Mt. Kilimandjaro). 

 A. lycoa kenia, subsp. 



Eltringbam, Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 13, pi. 2, f. 7 (1911). 

 British E. Africa (Mt. Kenia, Kikuyu Escarpment). 

 A. lycoa aequalis, subsp. 



Roth, and Jord., Novit. Zool., 12, p. 184 (1905); Eltringbam, 



Trans. Ent. Soc, p. 13, pi. 1, f. 8, 9 (1911). 

 Abyssinia (L. Abassi, Dara R., Bauka, Dereta Mts., Wonda). 



A. lycoa lycoa. PI. VI, f. 8 (larva). 



^. Exp. 58-60 mm. 



F.-w. thinly scaled, translucent. Brownish sepia. Beyond 

 cell a faint indication of a subapical band of three large paler 

 spots the third of which is nearer margin than those above 

 it. Similar indications of a pale patch in basal half of area 2, 

 and beneath it of a smaller one in lb. Costa, apex and hind- 

 margin slightly darker. 



H.-w. not quite so thinly scaled but still translucent, slightly 

 darkened at base and along hind-margin, remainder of wing 

 dull reddish ochreous. Nervures and rays well marked in dark 

 brown. 



Underside almost scaleless. H.-w. with a few black spots 

 near base ; one at base in 9, Ic, and lb, one in 8, one. in 7, two 

 in cell the second small and just before origin of nervule 2, one 

 in Ic, lb, and la. 



Head and thorax black with small white spots, abdomen black 

 above with reddish ochreous lateral .«pots and segmental lines. 

 Claws unequal. 



? . Expanse about 64 mm. 



F.-w. rather thinly scaled with grey black. A subapical band 



of white beginning just beneath costa and continuous as far as 



nervule 5, beneath which in area 4 is a white spot of about the 



same width as the band but placed nearer margin so that its 



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