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29. Acraea zetes Linnasus. 



a. Acraea zetes zetes Linnjeus (Pap.) Syst. Nat. (10), p. 4S7 (1758) ; Linnasus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 370 (1764); 



Clerck, Icones Ins. Vol. 2, p. 40, f. 1 (1764) ; Karsch (A.) Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. Vol. 38, p. 195, 198 (1893) ; 

 Aurivillius (metam) Ent. Tidschr. Vol. 14, p. 275, pi. 4, f. 4, 46 (iSg3); Rhop. Aethiop. p. 90 (189S) ; Lathy, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. iS5 (igo3); Eltringham, Afr. Mim. Butt. p. 66 (1910); Griinberg, Sitz. Ges. 

 Nat. Freunde, Berlin, p. 14S (1910); Deutsch Zentr. Afr. Exped. p. S14 (1911) ; Eltringham, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond. ^ metam), p. S3, pi. 6, f. 5 (larva) (1912); Aurivillius, in Seitz, Macr. Lep. p. 25o (igi3), 



a'. Acraea zetes zetes forma menippe Drury (P. menippe) 111. Exot. Ins. Vol. 3, pi. i3, f. 3, 4 (17S2); Stoll, 

 Cramer Suppl. p. i3i, pi. 28, f. 1, 1 a (1790) ; Herbst. Naturs. Schmett. Vol. 5, p. 11, pi. 81, f. 4, 5 (1792) ; 

 Butler (egina) Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 46 (1902) ; Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. S3 (1912) ; Auri- 

 villius, in Seitz, Macr. Lep. p. 280, pi. 546 (igi3). 

 = mycenaea Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 27 (1816). 

 = zethea Godart, Enc. Meth Vol. g, p. 236 (1819). 

 = zethes Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. Vol. 1, p. 83 (iSS5). 



Sierra Leone, Ashanti, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gaboon, Congo. Uganda, Barotse. 



.!-. Acraea zetes zetes forma jalema Godart (A.jalema), Enc. Meth. Vol. 9. p. 234 (1819); Aurivillius, Ann. 

 Mus. Stor. Nat Genova, p. 16 (1910); Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond p. S4 (igi2). 

 Sao Thome. Nigeria, Gaboon, Uganda, Rhodesia. 



b. Acraea zetes acara Hewitson (A. acara) Exot. Butt. pi. 3, f. ig, 20 (i865) ; Trimen (zetes) Rhop. Afr. Austral. 



p. g9(iS62); Trimen, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. p. 5i7,pl. 42, f, 8, g (iS6g); S. Afr. Butt, (metam), Vol. 1, 



p. 160, pi. 1, f. 1, irt (1887); Monteiro, Delagoa Bay, p. 201 (iSg2) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop. p. gi (iSgS); 



Marshall, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p.504 (igo2); Rogers, ibidem, p. 525(igo8) ; Aurivillius, Sjosted's Exped. 



• Kilimandj. p. 3(igio); Eltringham, Afr. Mim. Butt. p. 66, pi. 6, f. 6 (igio); Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 



p. 85, pi. 8, f. 2 (g) (igi2) ; Aurivillius, in Seitz, Macr. Lep. p. 280, pi. 54 b, c (igi3). 



White Nile, Uganda, British East Africa, German East Africa, Rhodesia, Nyassaland, Transvaal, 



Delagoa Bay, Natal. 



; Acraea zetes acara forma mhondana Suffert, Iris, p. 20 (ig04) ; Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 84 

 (1912) (loc. as acara). 



b-. Acraea zetes acara forma caffra Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 36g, pi. 46, f. 10, n (186S); Eltringham 

 [acara Afr. Mim. Butt. pi. 6, f. 3 (1910) ; Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 84 (igi2). 

 = tescea Suffert, Iris, p. 20 (igo4). 

 Barotse, Transvaal, Natal. 



c. Acraea zetes sidamona Rothschild & Jordan, Novit. Zool. Vol. 12, p. i7g (igo5) ; Eltringham, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. Lond. p. 84 (1912). 

 Abyssinia. 



d. Acraea zetes barber! Trimen (A. barberi)Tra.j\s. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 433 (1881) ; S. Afr. Butt. Vol. 1, p. 162, 



pi. 3, f 1, la (1887); Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 84 (1912). 

 Transvaal, Griqualand. 



d'. Acraea zetes barberi aberr. trimeni Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop. p. gi (i8g8 ; ; Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. 

 Lond. p. 84 (1912). 



= barberi (3rd example), Trimen, S. Afr. Butt. Vol. i, p. i63 (1887). 

 Transvaal. 



3o. Acraea chilo Godman. 



a. Acraea chilo chilo Godman, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 184, pi. ig, f. 4, 5 (1880) ; Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop. 



p. g6 (i8g8j; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond, p. 369 (i8g8); Butler, ibidem, p. 401 (i8g8); Rothschild & 



Jordan, Novit. Zool. 12, p. I7g (igo5); Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 8g, pi. 7, f. 4 (g) (igi2); 



Aurivillius, in Seitz, Macr. Lep. p. 252, pi. 54c (as barberi) (igi3). 

 = rosina Rogenhofer, Verh. Zool.-bot. Ges. Wien,Vol. 41, p. 565 (i8gi); Rogenhofer, in Baumann,Usambara, 



p. 326 (1891). 

 = zetes, var. acara Pagenstecher, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Nat. Wiesbaden, p. i33 (1902) (part.). 

 = wissmanni Weymer, Iris, p. 223 (igo3). 



a 1 . Acraea chilo g forma crystal Una Grose-Smith (A. cryslallina), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (6) 5, p. 167 (iSgo); 

 Grose-Smith & Kirby, Rhop. Exot. Vol. iq, p. 7, pi. 3, f. 3, 4 (1892); Aurivillius, Rhop. Aethiop. p. 89 

 (1898); Neave, Ent. Monthly Mag. p. 171 (igog); Aurivillius, Sjostedt's Exped. Kilimandj. p. 3(1910); 

 Eltringham, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 8g (igi2). 



