reddish tinge, while the upperside also of the hindwing has behind the discal dots a whitish median band 3 mm. in breadth, divided by the reddish veins. Lagos. female-ab. lactimaculata Eltr. (60 a). Wings entirely without red or brown markings; base of the forewing suffused with black-grey at least as far as vein 2. Hindwing on both surfaces dark grey in the basal area and at the distal margin, with white median band, beneath somewhat lighter than above. Fernando Po. female-ab. sepia Eltr. Forewing semitransparent with black-brown margins, traces of whitish spots in 1b and 2; hindwing above black-brown, with some red scales at the apex of the cell and the proximal side of the marginal band; inner margin yellowish; fore wing beneath yellowish at the margins; hindwing beneath grey-yellow with whitish median band. Fernando Po. pelasgius Smith is the eastern race, though it also occurs in West Africa as an aberration among the type-form; it is distinguished by having the basal area and the broad marginal band on the underside of the hindwing dark tawny, so that the light yellow median band stands out very sharply. Congo to Uganda; also as aberration in the Cameroons to Angola. gelonica Rothsch. and Jord. differs from pelasgius in the more transparent forewing and the chestnut-brown ground-colour of the hindwing beneath. Abyssinia. Larva dark brown with blackish, yellow-edged transverse dorsal streaks, yellow lateral lines and red-brown head; the spines black. Subspecies Acraea peneleos peneleos — Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, south-western Cameroon, Bioko Acraea peneleos gelonica Rothschild & Jordan, 1905 — southern Ethiopia Acraea peneleos pelasgius Grose-Smith, 1900 — Cameroon, Congo, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, western Kenya, north-western Zambia Biology The habitat consists of forests. Adult males mud-puddle and both sexes are attracted to flowers, especially those of Eupatorium species. The larvae feed on Urera cordifolia. Taxonomy It is a member of the Acraea circeis species group. References External links Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 57 b Images representing Acraea peneleos at Bold. Butterflies described in 1871 peneleos Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Christopher Ward (entomologist)