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MYCALESIS SAFITZA, Hewitson, var. EVENUS, Hopffer. 



Mi/calesis evenus, Hopffer, Monatsber. d. K. Akad. Wiss., Berl., 1855, p. 6U, n. 

 14; p. 394, pi. XXV, figs. 5, 6 (1862). 



There is a good female of tlie EvenuN wiwiety in the collection, 



MYCALESIS PERSPICUA, Trimen. 



Mi/calesis perspioia, Trimex, Trans. Ent. Soo. Londou", 1873, p. 101, pi. t. fig. 3. 

 Tlie collection contains a beautiful male specimen of this well-marked 

 species. 



MYCALESIS SANAOS, Hewitson. 

 Mijcalesis sanaos, Hewitsox, Ex. Butt., III. pi. vi, fig. 34. 

 The collection contains one example of the male, which does not 

 differ materially from specimens coming from Gaboon and the Gold 

 Coast. 



Subfainily ACTi^zEllsr.,^. 

 Genus ACR^^A, Fabricius. 



ACRiEA CERASA, Hewitson. 



Acnea cerasa, Hewitsox, Exot. Butt., II, pi. xx, fig. 10 (1861).— Trimex, Soutb 

 African Butt., I, p. 139 (1887). 



Three specimens, rather smaller than the average. 



ACRiEA INSIGNIS, Distant. 



Acraa insignis, Distaxt, Proc. Zool. 8oc. Lond., 1880, p. 184, pi. xix, fig. 6. 

 Acraa huxtoni, Hewit.sox (nee Bntler), Ent. Mon. Mag., XIV, p. 155. 

 Acro'a halbhia, Oukrthur, Etudes d'Eut., XII, p. 6, pi. iii, fig. 8. 



The National Museum collection contains seven specimens of this 

 very pretty species, all of them of the form mentioned by the author 

 of the species, in which the black spots upon the secondaries are fused 

 into one large spot. 



ACRiEA SGANZINI. Boisduval. 



Acra'a sgamini, Boisdu-\ai,, FauneMadgr., p. 34, No. 10, pi. vi, figs. 6, 7 (1833). 

 There are a number of fairly good specimens of this species. A slight 

 variety ot this species has just been described by M. Vuillot, of Paris, 

 under the name A. usiigarw, and has been marketed in quantity by Dr. 

 Staudmger, of Dresden. One or two of the specimens agree with the 

 form [/sugard', being slightly lighter in the ground color than typical 

 A. syanzinij and having the S])ots less developed. 



ACR.ffiA SERENA, Fabricius. 



Papilio screna, Fabricius, Syst. Ent., p. 461, n. 76 (1775). 

 The sjiecimens of this species contained in the collection differ from 

 the common form found upon the west coast, in that the dark transverse 



