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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 

 pi'evalently fulvous wings. A. kilinianjara, Oberth., is, as I 

 am forced to believe, a variant female of the species. The 

 synonymy is as follows : — 



Acrcea Johnstoni^ Gdm. 



AcrcBa Johnstoni, Gdm. P. Z. S. Load. 1885, p. 537 {S); Butler, P. Z. S. 



1888, p. 91 ( $ ). 

 Acrcea proteina, Oberth. Etud. d'Entotn. livr. xvii. pp. 25, 26, pi. ii. 



fig. 19 (typical Johnstoni, Gdm., c?), tig. 21 (J), pi. i. fig. 4, pi. ii. 



fig. 14, pi. iii. fig. 29 ( $ ). 

 Aa-oia kilimanjara, Oberth. /. c. p. 26, pi. ii. fig. 17 ( 5 j var.). 



On page 24 of the same work Mons. Oberthiir describes an 

 Acrcea to which he gives the name A. planesium, the 

 male of which he figures on pi. i. fig. 11. This ie the species 

 which I described from the Abbott Collection as Acrcea 

 minima. The type is in the U.S. National Museum, a co- 

 type is in my collection. The synonymy is as follon^s : — 



Acrcea mtmma, Holl. 



Acrcea minima, Holl. Entomologist, Lond., Sept. 1892. 

 Acrcea platiesiiim, Oberth. Etudes d'Entom. livr. xvii. p. 24, pi. i, tig. 11 

 (1893). 



I cannot resist the impression that Acrcea regalis^ Oberth. 

 (Etud. d'Entom. livr. xvii. p. 20, pi. ii. fig. 20), is identical 

 with A. brcesia, described by Godman, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 538, 

 and figured by Smith and Kirby, K.hop. Exot., Acrcea,- pi. i. 

 fig. 7. I have a considerable series of A. brcesia, 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 'Ehopalocera 

 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, 1 find that the learned authors 

 have figured on the twentieth plate illustrative of African 

 Lyca^nidae, fig. 6, a species which they name Epitola re.zia. 

 ]n the footnote they courteously express the belief that I claim 

 this as the species described by me in * Psyche/ vol. v. 

 p. 425, as E. henitensis (not henitenais, 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 



