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



Acrcea manjaca (Boisd.), Wallgrn. Lep. Rhop. Oaftr. p. 22 (1857). 

 Acrcea serena (Fabr.), pars, Triinen, Rhop. Afr. Aust. i. p. 107 (1862). 

 Acrcea serena (Fabr.), Stdgr. Exot. Scbmett. pi. xxxiii. (1888). 



5. Acrcea manjaca, Boisd. 



Acrcea manjaca, Boisd. Faune Ent. Madag. p. 3.3, pi. iv. fig. 6, pi. v. 



figs. 6 & 7. 

 Acrcea serena, var. a, Kirby, Syn, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 132 (1871). 



6. Acrcea cabira, Hopff. 



Acrcea cabira, Hopflf". Monatsber. d. k. Preiiss. Akad. d. Wissench. 



1855, p. 640. no. 7, and Peters's Reise nach Mossamb., Ins. p. 378, 



pi. xxiii. figs. 14, 15 (1862). 

 Acrcea cynthia, Trimen (pars), Rhop. Afr. Austr. i. p. 108. no. 68 



(1862). 

 Acrcea 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 . cyntMus, Drury, was confounded by later writers 

 with a very different insect, which was named Acrcea cabira 

 by Hopffer. Acra^a Buxtoni, Butl., is a good species, which 

 was mistaken for a long while, and is still mistaken by care- 

 less authors, for A. serena, Fabr. A. manjaca, Boisd., is a 

 good species, representing A. Buxtoni, 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 Acrcea to which 

 he gives the name proteina ; of which on pi. i. fig. 4 he 

 depicts what he avers is the male, and on pi. ii. 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 pi. iii. fig. 29 he depicts another varietal form, and on 

 pi. ii. fig. 17 a form which he describes under the name 

 A. Mlimanjara. I am 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 



