1893.] BRITISH CENTRAIi AJFRIOA. 655 



57. HXPANIS ACHULOIA. 



Hypanis achelmi, Wallengren, Lep. E,hop. Caffr. p. 29 (1857). 

 Rhodesia, Lake Mweru, June 11, 1892 ; Zomba, July and 

 December 1892. 



58. ACE-EA VrtflDIA. 



Acrcea vinidia, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 130 (1874) ; 

 Exbt. Butt, v., Acrcea, pi. 7. figs, 45, 46 (1875). 

 Rhodesia, Lake Mweru, June 12, 1892. 



59. AcEj9ea cabiea. 



Acraa cahira, HopfEer, Ber. Verb. Akad. Berlin, 1855, p. 640, 

 n. 7 ; Peters's Reise nach Mossambique, p. 378, pi. 23. figs. 14, 15 

 (1862), 



Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



60. ACB^A BXCELSIOB. 



Acrcea excelsior, E. M. Sharpe, P. Z, S. 1891, p. 192, pi. xvii. 

 fig. 3. 



2 , Zomba, January 1893. 



61. ACE^A VENTUEA. 



Acrcea ventura, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv, p, 51 (1877). 



2 . Above quite like a large reddish female of A. eponina ' ; 

 primaries below with wider and comparatively paler apical area : 

 the secondaries with three large vermilion spots in the macular 

 central angulated baud ; the markings of the external border 

 somewhat as in A. cahira, but only outlined in black, the zigzag 

 line having much larger marginal triangular spots. Expanse of 

 wings 60 millim. 



Zomba, July 1892. 



62. ACE^A TEEPSICHOEE. 



Papilio terpsichore, Linnteus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 222 (1764). 

 Papilio eponina $ , Cramer, Pap, Exot. iii. pi. cclxviii. 0, D 

 (1782). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



My view (Pabr. Cat. p. 133) that P. terpsicTiore was Acrcea 



^ According to Dr. Holland, who has gone carefully into the synonymy of 

 the A. Serena group (Ann. & Mag. N. H., October 1893), this is the typical 

 A. bonasia of Fabricius, and Cramer's female the same as A. serena, Fabr. The 

 only difficulty is that, in the absence of the Fabrician type of A. serena, his 

 description is insufficient for the certain identification of the species, the only 

 clue being " Parvus, affinis Terpsichori." In looking up the description of 

 P. terpsichore, Linn., I find a reference to a figure by Petiver, which is clearly a 

 bad representation of Aoraa viola ; the Linnsean description " Apices fusci 

 lunula in medio" corresponds much better with Cramer's female o^ A. eponina, 

 which I believe to be A. terpsichore, Linn. Aurivillius, in his important paper 

 on the species described by Linnaeus, says : " fortasse ad Acrcea serena, Pabr., 

 optime referri posset, nisi alse posticse saturatiores essent." 



