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Monza alberti (Holland) (Figs. 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, $ genitalia)
Baoris alberti Holland, 1896: 67; pi. 2, fig. 21 (Ogove). =Parnara entebbea Swinhoe, 1909: 90 (Entebbe, Uganda). = Baoris alberti ab. "bibundicana" Strand, 1912c: 51 (Cameroon). = Baoris alberti ab. "alenicola" Strand, 1912c: 51 (Alen, Cameroon).
M. alberti shows a surprising degree of variability, not only superficially but also in the configuration of the valvae of the male genitalia. These asymmetrical valvae fall into a number of patterns apparently uncorrelated with either differences in facies or geographic distribution. A few of the variations in the valvae are shown in our figures.
This highly variable species is found from Sierra Leone to Gabon and east as far as Kenya. There are specimens in Carnegie Museum from almost all the known range of alberti.
Liberia: no data, 4 i (Evans, 1937: 160); Tchien, 1 $, IV; Penoke, 1 2 (Picard, 1950: 627); Harbel, 1 <$ , II, 1 S , X, 1 <5 , XI; Zorzor, 1 «J , XI; Gbanga, 1 5 , VII; Ganta, 1 2 , V, 5 $,4 9 , VI. 2 & , 1 2 , VII, 1 8,1 2 , IX, 1 S f X; Kpain, 1 2 , V (all Fox).
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Fox, R.M., Lindsey, A.W., Clench, H.K., Miller, L.D. 1965. The Butterflies of Liberia. Memoirs of the American Entomological Society vol. 19. Philadelphia, USA