a 
4 Mr. H. Eltringham on the Forms and 
Mrs. 8. L. Hinde. The species further extends northwards 
into Abyssinia, and there we find that both sexes are 
alike, not having, as the Kenia specimens might lead us 
to expect, white forewing spots, but having all the 
lighter markings dark ochreous. This form is the sub- 
species A. lycoa aequalis of Rothschild and Jordan, repre- 
sented at figs. 8 and 9. It is worthy of note that the 
Abyssinian form steckert of A. echeria is specially charac- 
terised by dark ochreous markings and an entire absence of 
white spots. It is doubtless in mimicry of this form that 
the female /ycoa of this region has lost its white markings. 
With regard to the existing nomenclature of the above 
forms, the /ycoa of Godart applies to the species throughout 
its range until we arrive at Entebbe, and from thence 
eastward and southward the forms approach more and 
more closely to the fallax of Rogenhofer, which is identical 
with Oberthiir’s hilimandjara. In his catalogue of the 
African Rhopalocera Aurivillius makes the queried sug- 
gestion that fallax may be a form of johnston, but this I 
hope to show is an incorrect surmise. The same author 
refers to an example described as a variety of lycoa by 
Butler, and names it ab. butleri. The supposed identity 
of this variety with /ycoa must be regarded as an error. 
From an examination of the specimen there can be no 
doubt that it is a female example of the form subsequently 
described by Grose-Smith as Acraca toruwna, the position 
of which will be considered later. 
ACRAEA JOHNSTONI. 
Acraea johnstoni was first described by Godman in 1885 
(P.Z.S., p. 537) from a male example, and the type agrees 
with the form subsequently described by Oberthiir as 
Acraea proteina semifulvescens. Now that long series of 
the forms of A. johnstoni are available, it is seen to be 
somewhat regrettable that this form should have acquired 
the position of the type, since it is in reality a rather 
rare variety. In 1889 Butler deseribed an Acraea, which 
he assigned to the type of Acraea johnston as its female, 
and this arrangement was confirmed by Dr. Holland in 
1893 (Ann. Nat. Hist., p. 248). In 1891 Rogenhofer 
described his “Planema” telekiana, which, however, is 
only a form modified but slightly from Godman’s type of 
the male johnstont. The hindwing patch is somewhat 
