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that the black form with well-defined white spots is, as 
Mr. Butler has determined, the female of the male with the 
prevalently fulvous wings. A. kilimanjara, Oberth., is, as I 
am forced to believe, a variant female of the species. The 
synonymy is as follows :— 
Acrea Johnstoni, Gdm. 
Acrea Johnstoni, Gdm. P, Z. S. Lond. 1885, p. 537 (3) ; Butler, P. Z. S. 
1888, p. 91 (2). 
Acrea proteina, Oberth. Etud. d’Entom. livr. xvii. pp. 25, 26, pl. ii. 
fig. 19 (typical Johnston, Gdm., ¢), fig. 21 (¢), pli. fig. 4, pl. ii. 
fig. 14, pl. iii. fig. 29 (9). 
Acrea kilimanjara, Oberth. 1. c. p. 26, pl. ii. fig. 17 (9, var.). 
On page 24 of the same work Mons. Oberthiir describes an 
‘Acrea to which he gives the name A. planesium, the 
male of which he figures on pl.i. fig. 11. This is the species 
which I described from the Abbott Collection as Acrea 
minima. The type is in the U.S. National Museum, a co- 
type is in my collection. The synonymy is as follows :— 
Acrea minima, Holl. 
Acrea minima, Holl. Entomologist, Lond., Sept. 1892. 
Acrea planesium, Oberth, Etudes d’Entom. livy. xvii. p. 24, pl. i, fig. 11 
(1893). 
I cannot resist the impression that Acrea regalis, Oberth. 
(Etud. d’Entom. livr. xvii. p. 20, pl. 11. fig. 20), is identical 
with A. bresia, described by Godman, P. Z. 8. 1885, p. 538, 
and figured by Smith and Kirby, Rhop. Exot., Acrea, pl. i. 
fig. 7. I have a considerable series of A. bresva, Gdm., and 
they vary considerably, some having the marginal row of 
spots on the secondaries as in the figure given by Oberthiir, and 
some are without them, as in the figure in the ‘ Rhopalocera 
Exotica,’ and there are intergrades. I am fully satisfied that 
the two figures represent one and the same species, in which 
case Godman’s name has the priority. 
In turning over the pages of part 23 of the ‘ Rhopalocera 
Exotica,’ by Smith and Kirby, I find that the learned authors 
have figured on the twentieth plate illustrative of African 
Lycenide, fig. 6, a species which they name Epitola rezia. 
In the footnote they courteously express the belief that I claim 
this as the species described by me in ‘ Psyche,’ vol. v. 
p- 425, as LE. benttensis (not benitenars, as it is misprinted in 
the ‘ Rhop. Exotica’). I have taken occasion to compare the 
figure on the plate with my type, and find that the latter 
