248 Dr. W. J. Holland on African Lepidoptera. 
Acrea manjaca (Boisd.), Wallgrn. Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 22 (1857). 
Acrea serena (Fabr.), pars, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Aust. i. p. 107 (1862). 
Acrea serena (Fabr.), Stdgr. Exot. Schmett. pl. xxxiii. (1888). 
5. Acrea manjaca, Boisd. 
Acrea manjaca, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madag. p. 33, pl. iv. fig. 6, pl. v. 
figs. 6 & 7. 
Acrea serena, var. a, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn, Lep. p. 182 (1871). 
6. Acrea cabira, Hopft. 
Acrea cabira, Hoptt. Monatsber. d. k. Preuss. Akad. d. Wissench. 
1855, p. 640. no. 7, and Peters’s Reise nach Mossamb., Ins. p. 378, 
pl. xxiii. figs. 14, 15 (1862). 
Acrea cynthia, Trimen (pars), Rhop., Afr. Austr. i. p. 108. no, 68 
(1862). 
Acrea cynthia, Boisd. App. Voy. de Deleg. p. 590 (1847), 
It appears from the foregoing that the name eponina, Cram., 
falls entirely, being a synonym both of A. bonasia, Fabr., 
and of A. serena, Fabr., in the cases where it is employed by 
Cramer. A. cynthius, Drury, was confounded by later writers 
with a very different insect, which was named Acrea cabira 
by Hopffer. Acraea Buxtoni, Butl., is a good species, which 
was mistaken for a long while, and is still mistaken by care- 
Jess authors, for A. serena, Fabr. A. manjaca, Boisd., is a 
good species, representing A. buxtont, Butl., in Madagascar. 
I have large series of all these species in my collection, 
representing both sexes, and am able to positively affirm from 
what I know of them that they are valid. 
On p. 25 of livraison xvii. ‘Etudes d’Entomologie’ 
Mons. Oberthiir describes several forms of an Acrea to which 
he gives the name proteina; of which on pl. i. fig. 4 he 
depicts what he avers is the male, and on pl. i. figs. 19 and 
21 what he claims are varietal forms, presumably of the 
male, though he does not designate the sex, and on the same 
plate, fig. 14, what he considers the typical form of the species. 
On pl. ui. fig. 29 he depicts another varietal form, and on 
pl. i. fig. 17 a form which he describes under the name 
A. kilimanjara. Iam quite familiar with this insect, a con- 
siderable number having passed through my hands which were 
taken by Dr. Abbott in the region about Kilimanjaro in 
1888. It is the insect which was described by Godman, 
in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London,’ 
1885, p. 537, as A. Johnstoni, and the female of which was 
described by Butler in the same journal for 1888, p. 91. 
From material before me I am able to confidently assert 
