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PROF, E. B. POULTON ON BREEDING 



The predominant development of alcippina in Sierra Leone will be 

 rendered evident Ly the following list of the other West Africnn forms of 

 encedon in the British Museum, also prepared by Mr. N. D. Riley, together 

 with all West African forms, including alcippina, in the Hope Department, 

 Oxford, and the Trino; Zoolooical Museum :■— 



Localities and 



Museums. 



I. Britisli Miiseum. 

 II. Hope Department.^ 

 III. Tring Museum. 



o 



so 



i 



o 



1 





$5 

 -5 



commixta. 



555 



Gambia Eiver . . . 



III. 















Id 2$ 



Sierra Leone 



I. 







Ic^" 







26 2$ 



4$ 



n. 









153 







Id 1$ 



III. 









1$ 







3$ 



Gold Coast 



I. 











1 16 



Nigeria, N. & S. . . . 



I. 







2c? 20$ 



Ic?" 



3d 1? 



56 17$ 



II ^ 





IJ 



IS 2$« 



16' 





Id 1$ 



7d' 5$ 



III. 













1 2$ 



Cameroons 



I. 



Ic? 





1$ 







1 





III. 









- 1$ 







Congo State 



I. 



2$a 













II. 





2$ 



2 c?"' 







2d 





m. 





2cJ 7$ 





1$ 





' Id 1^ 



Angola 



I. 



1 



1$ 













1$ 







II. 





1? 











III. 





21(^" 6? 











7d 3$ 



Totals 



16 3$ 



24c5' 16$ 



12 c? 23$ 



Id 42 



Ic? 



t 

 66 4$j25d 39$ 





1 Including a few specimens from the coUeetions of M. Charles Obcrthiir and of the Luxembourg 

 Museum, which I haye had the opportunity of studying at Oxford. 

 * Transitional towards lycia. 

 3 Port Lokkoh : 1912 : Mrs. Addison. 

 ■* The type of the form, from Lower Niger. 



^ Not including the captured parents of any of the families tabulated on pp. 407, 409-414. 

 '' The $ $ very dark : one d with a fulvous f.-w. bar. 

 7 Ibadan, S. Nigeria : May 1910 : Rev. Lake S. Noble. 



'^ Included in the 7 d d is an injured specimen of which the sex is not quite certain. 

 " One $ is the type of ''fulva,'' Doubl,, Westw., and Hew. 

 10 Very dark specimens 11 One d transitional towards alcippina. 



