Mr. H. Eltringham on the Forms and 



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Mrs. S. 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 steekeri 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 lycoa of this region has lost its white markings. 

 With regard to the existing nomenclature of the above 

 forms, the lycoa 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 Oberthlir's kilimandjara. In his catalogue of the 

 African Rhopalocera Aurivillius makes the queried sug- 

 gestion i\\dii fallax may be a form oi johnstoni^hnt 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. hutleri. The supposed identity 

 of this variety with lycoa 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 Acraea toruna, 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 scmifulvesccns. INow 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 described an Acraea, which 

 he assigned to the type of Acraea johnstoni as its female, 

 and this arrangement was confirmed by Dr. Holland in 

 1893 (Ann. Nat. Hist., p. 248). In 1891 Rogenhofer 

 described his " Flanema" telekiana, which, however, is 

 only a form modified but slightly from Godman's type of 

 the male johnstoni. The hindwing patch is somewhat 



