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- Actinote alalia alalia Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatschr. Vol. 4, p. io5, no. 62 (1S60) (Acraea). 

 Acraca alalia Kirby, Cat. diurn. Lep. p. i36, no. 54 (1S71). 

 Acraea eulalia (!) F. Miiller, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 39, p. 296 (1S78). 

 Acraea alalia var. Jones, Proc. Liter. Philos. Soc. Liverpool, p. 36 (1SS2). 

 Actinote alalia Jones, ibidem, p. 8, no. 76 (iSS3) ; Mabilde, Borboletas, p. 64 (1S96). 

 ActinoU alalia subsp. alalia Jordan, in Wagner, Lep. Cat. Pt. 11, p, 10 (1913). 

 Actinote alalia alalia Jordan, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Vol. 5, p. 374 (igi3). 



46. Actinote surima Schaus, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 2^.. p. 3g2(igo2) (Acraea). Brazil, Paraguay. 



PI. 2, Figs. 8, 9. 



Actinote surima Jordan, in Wagner. Lep. Cat. Pt. 11, p. i3 (1913) ; Jordan, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Vol. 5, p. 374 

 t. 82/. ^ (i 9 i3). 



47. Actinote mamita Burmeister,Reise La Plata, Vol. 2, p. 168 (1861) (Acraea). Brazil, Paraguay, 



Argentina. 



a. Actinote mamita mitama Schaus, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. Vol. 24, p. 3g (1902) (Acraea viitama). 



Actinote mamita Mabilde, Borboletas. p. 64 (1S95]. 



Actinote mamita subsp. mitama Jordan, in Wagner, Lep. Cat. Pt. n, p. 12 (igi3). 

 Actinote mamita mitama Jordan, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Vol. 5, p. 374, t. 82/ (igi3). 

 South-East Brazil. 



b. Actinote mamita mamita Burmeister. Reise La Plata, Vol. 2, p. 168 (iS6i) (Acraea). 



Acr.ua mamita Burmeister, Dascr. Rep. Argent.. Lep. Vol. 5, p. 129. no. 3 (1878); ibidem, Atlas, p. 11 no. 14, 



t. 4. f. 7. S. 14 1S79). 

 Actinote mamita subsp. mamita Jordan, in Wagner, Lep. Cat. Pt. 11, p. 12 (igi3). 

 Actinote mamita mamita Jordan, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Vol. 5, p. 374 (igi3j. 

 Argentina, Paraguay. 



48. Actinote canutia Hopffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 35, p. 345, sub no. 35 (1873) Brazil, Paragua)'. 



(Acraea). 



Actinote pellenea Geyer (nee Hiibner, 1S20-1824), in Hiibner, Zutr. Exot Schmett. f. 741, 742 (1802). 

 Actinote canutia Jordan, in Wagner, Lep. Cat. Pt. n, p. 11 (1913) ; Jordan, in Seitz, Grossschmett. Vol. 5 

 p. 374, t. 82£(igi3).. 



49. Species mihi ignota : Actinote carbonaria Hopffer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. Vol. 35, p. 348, no. 42 (1874) 



(Acraea). 



Acr.ua carbonaria Kirby, Cat. diurn. Lep. p. 719, no 85 (1877) ; similar to ocomeiie, but the forewing without a 

 yellowish red basal area on the upper side. 



2. Genus ACRAEA Fabricius 



Description. — The genus Acraea was founded by Fabricius. His definition is « Taser zwei, 

 lang. gefranzt, dreigliedrig; drittes Glied klein, nackt. Fiihler geknopft (Putzftisse) ••. 



The types given are Papilio horta, terpsichore and brassolis. The P. brassolis here referred to is a 

 synonym of the Pierine butterfly Archonias bellona, Cramer. 



Latreille defined the genus as follows : « Bord interne des ailes inferieures n'embrassant presque 

 pas le dessous de Tabdomen; palpes inferieurs greles et presque cylindriques ; antennes peu allongees 

 et terminees brusquement en bouton. » 



Doubleday, Hewitson, and Westwood in the Genera of diurnal Lepidoptera divide the 

 species into six groups or subgenera, viz. Hyalites, Planema, Gnesia, Telchinia, Actinote and Pareba. The 

 definitions of these sub-genera are quite useless. As an example of them we may take Telchinia and 

 Hyalites, the characters given being precisely the same except that in the latter the second joint of the 

 labial palpi is said to be « considerably swollen and but little scaly », whilst in the former the same 

 structure is described as « considerably swollen and clothed in front with scales ». The distinctive 

 features of Planema are not correctly diagnosed since A. lycoa and joduita are included in it. 



Mabille, in his article on the genus in Histoire naturelle de Madagascar states that they can 

 be divided into groups, perhaps genera, by the structure of the male and female genital armatures, but 



