Dr. W. J. Holland on African Lepidoptera. 247 



(see Kirbj, Syn. Cat. Diuvn. Lep. p. 132. no. 19). 

 Mr. Butler, in his ' Catalogue of the Fabrician Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera,' p. 131, states emphatically that the Papilio 

 bonasia of Fabricius is identical witli Cramer's P. eponina, as 

 evidenced by the type in the Banksian Collection. This 

 view is confirmed by ^Ir. Trimen in his ' South- African 

 Butterflies,' vol. i. p. 174, footnote. 



Mons. Oberthiir quotes Trimen, ' E-hopalocera Africse 

 Australis,' as favouring the view that A. eponina, Cra.m., is a 

 synonym of A. cynthiuSj Drury. Had Mons. Oberthiir con- 

 sulted Mr. Trimen's recent work ' South-African Butterflies,' 

 vol. i. pp. 174 and 175, he would have seen that the recent 

 studies of the learned Curator of the South-African Museum 

 have led him to greatly modify the views expressed in his 

 work published in 1862. The synonymy of the various 

 species of the group which have been confused with one 

 another in this genus may be worked out as follows, and will, 

 I think, be found correct : — 



1. Acrcea [Papilio] cT/ntJiius, Drury. 



Acraa (P.) cyntkius, Drury, 111, Exot. Ent. iii. pi. xxxvii. figs. ;"5, 6 



(1782). 

 Acrcea (P.) cynthia, Herbst, Xatiirs. Sclimett. iv. pi. Ixxx. figs. 1, 2 



(1790). 

 Acraa cijnthia, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 234. no. 13 (1819). 

 Acraa cynthius, Trimen, South-African Butt. vol. i. p. 175 (1887). 

 Acraa cynthius ?, Oberthiii", Etudes d'Eutoui. xvii. p. 28, pi. i. tig. 5 



(1893). 

 Telchinia serena (Fabr.), Butl. (pars), Cat. Fabr. Dium. Lep. p. 130 



(1869). 

 Acrcea bonusia (Fabr.), Ivirby, Syn. Cat. Dium. Lep. p. 132 (1871). 



2. Acrcea (P.) serena^ Fabr. 



Acrcea (P.) sei-ena, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 461. no. 76 (1775). 



Acrcea (P.) ejjonina, Cram., §, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cclxviii. figs. C, D 



(1782). 

 Acrcea serena, Herbst, Naturs. Schmett. iv. pi. Ixxxii. figs. 8, 9 (1790). 

 Telchinia serena, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 130 (1869) (pars). 



3. Acrcea [P.] bonasia, Fabr. 



Acrcea (P.) honasia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 464. no. 96 (1775). 

 Acrcea (P.) eponina, Cram. Pap. E.xot. iii. pi. cclxviii. figs A,B (1782). 

 Acrcea (P.) serena, Fabr. Mant. Ins. pp. 14, 16. nos. 133, 164 (1787). 

 Acrcea (P.) serena, Herbst, Naturs. Schmett. iv. pi. Ixxxii. figs. t\ 7 

 (17^.(0). 



4. Acrcea Buxtonij Butl. 



Acraa Buxtoni, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. p. 395 (1875), 

 Acrcea serena (Fabr.), Boisd, App. Voy. de Deleg. p. 590 (1847). 



