7iotes on BiUter files from the Victoria Nyanza. 215 



Tahle of forms of ahove species. 



L.ekrysipptis chrysippuslZQ. H.uiisippus 'i misippus .55. A. encedon, i. eiiceclon 164 



» M alcippoides 16. ) , . . , „ , ■ ■ o 



7 ■ Toll. ,» 9 alcippoides 7. „ „ alcippina o 



„ „ aicippus . 18. J ^^ 



„ „ tyc/a . .126 



,, „ dorippus 163. „ „ $ inaria . . 36. „ „ daira. . 124 



„ „ albe'iDis 13. „ ,, 9 dorippoides 6. 



It is evideuc from the above numbers that Mr. Wiggins 

 did not think it worth while to send many ^ $ oi misippus. 

 Consequently the true proportion of the occurrence of this 

 species is not obtainable. Two specimens of a new Acri»a, 

 both '^^{A.wigginsii, mihi), exhibit a remarkable syna- 

 posematic resemblance to A. encedon and indirectly to L. 

 chrysippus. The species is allied to and intermediate in 

 many respects between A. bomba, Grose-Smith, and A. 

 anacreontica, Grose-Smith. It differs from both these 

 species in possessing a subapical white bar. This being 

 probably a mimetic and not an ancestral character it is 

 possible that the $ $, not yet known, may not have it. 



TiRUMALA PETIVERANA GrOUP. 



The black and green Tintmala limniace petiverana, Dbl. 

 and Hew. (67), an abundant species, was taken in five 

 different localities. 



Of its mimic Papilio leonidas, Fabr., eight specimens 

 were collected. Also two specimens of Euxanthe crossleyi 

 ansoo'fjei, R. and J., which is probably an outlying member 

 of the group. 



Melinda forinosa, Godm., and M. mercedonia, Karsch, 

 with the mimetic Papilio rex, Oberth. (hitherto considered 

 the mimic of the Danaine), occur in both collections and 

 are of considerable interest. Their distribution is as 

 follows — 



N.E. Shore. N.W. Shore. 



M. formosa . 50 specimens . — 



M. mercedonia . 5 „ .36 specimens. 



Nyangori, a few miles north-east of the Lake shore, is 

 apparently the eastern boundary of M. mercedonia, and 

 from this locality come all the five specimens recorded 

 above. West and north-west of the Lake mercedonia is 



