246 Dr. W. J. Holland on African Lepidoptera. 
x 380. 8. Posterior foot-jaw, x 380. 9. Foot of first pair, 
x 190. 10. Foot of fourth pair, x 127. 11. Foot of fifth 
air, female, X 190. 12. Anterior antenna, male, X 253, 
13. Foot of third pair, inner branch only, male, x 190. 
14. Foot of fifth pair, male, x 190. 
Pseudanthessius gracilis, Claus. 
Fig. 15. Female, seen from above, X 40. 16. Posterior antenna, x 127. 
17. Mandible and (a) maxilla, x 190. 18, Anterior foot-jaw, 
x 190. 19. Posterior foot-jaw, x 190. 20, Foot of fourth 
pair, X 127. 
Puate XIII. 
? Cyproidia brevirostris, sp. Nn. 
Fig. 1. Female (?), seen from the side, x 48. 2, Superior antenna, x 127. 
3. Inferior antenna, X 127. 4. Mandible and palp, x 285. 
5. First gnathopod, x 127. 6. Second gnathopod, x 127. 
7. Third pereiopod, x 95. 8. Fifth pereiopod, x 95. 9. First 
uropod, X 127. 10. Third uropod, x 127. 11. Telson, x 190. 
XLI.—A few Synonymical Notes upon African Lepidoptera. 
By W. J. Houuanp, Ph.D., F.E.S. 
THE seventeenth livraison of Mons. Charles Oberthiir’s 
splendid ‘Etudes d’Entomologie’ is before me. I am glad 
to see the discussion on p. 28 in regard to Drury’s Acrea 
cynthius. 'The identification of this species and the species 
which have borne the names serena, Fabr., bonasia, Fabr., 
and eponina, Cram., has led to much difficulty in the minds 
of the students of African Lepidoptera. Having recently 
had occasion to work out the subject with all the literature 
pertaining to it before me, and at the same time with long 
series of the species in question at hand for study and 
reference, it is a pleasure to me to see that so eminent an 
authority as Mons. Oberthiir has practically attained the same 
results in his investigations as those at which I have myself 
arrived. Mons. Oberthiir expresses some doubt as to the cor- 
rectness of his decision; but that it is absolutely correct seems 
to me to be beyond question. 
It is worthy of note that the species which he figures with 
some hesitation as Acrea cynthius, Drury, has for some years 
past been sold as Acrwa bonasia, Fabr., by Dr. Staudinger, 
and thus stands labelled in many collections. Dr. Staudinger 
was undoubtedly led to this determination by the identitica- 
tion of A. bonasia, Fabr., with A. cynthius, Drury, by Kirby 
