30 ME,. B. TEIMEN ON BUTTEEFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



species, both of the typical brownish-rut'ous form. They were 

 taken on the Pungwe Eiver. 



25. Ace;ea eahira, Boisd. 



Acnm rahira, Boisd. Faune Eut. de Madag. etc. p. 33, pi. 5. 

 figs. 4, 5 (1833). 



A male from Umtali and another from the Vunduzi, both of the 

 typical South-African form, but with the black spots considerably 

 reduced in the latter specimen. 



26. ACEyEA BUXTONI, Butl. 



Acrcea huxtoni, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xvi. p. 395 

 (1875). 



Twenty-seven examples taken in Christmas Pass, and six others 

 from different localities, agree with Natalian specimens, the 

 females varying in the same manner. One male, however, from 

 Christmas Pass, exhibits a peculiarity on the underside of the 

 hind wings, where in the discal series the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th spots, 

 and also the 5th and 6th spots, are united, so that each group 

 forms a narrow streak. 



27. ACE^A CABIEA, Hopff. 



Acrcea caUra, Hopff. Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. 1855, 

 p. 640. n. 7. 



Twelve specimens from Christmas Pass do not differ from those 

 found farther southward. 



G-enus Planema, Doubl. 



28. Planema johnstoni (Godm.). 



cJ. Acrcea johnstoni, Godm. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 537. 



$. Acrcea (Planerna) johnstoni, Butl. op. cit. 1888, p. 91. 



This species was founded on a single male collected by Mr. H. 

 H. Johnston on Kilima-njaro at an elevation of 5500 ft. The 

 female was noted by Mr. Butler (he. cit.) from two examples, one 

 of them taken in the same locality as the female, the other in the 

 hills of Terta. So very dissimilar are the sexes (the male having 

 the fore wings ochre-red from base up to and including the two 

 obliquely disposed pairs of discal spots, and the female having the 



males and all the females exhibit the same strong melanic marking, and even 

 the remaining three males show a slight tendencj' in the same direction. 



Although A. acara, as noted in my S.- African Butt. i. p. 160, varies much in 

 the development of the black markings, I have not seen any other examples 

 that approach the very heavily black-clouded condition of Mr. Eriksson's 

 specimens. 



It should be noted that this variation is not at all in the direction of the 

 allied A. sefes (L.), which is recorded from Angola and as far north on the 

 West Coast as Sierra Leone, as in that species it is the entire ground of the 

 fore wings that is suffused with greyish fuscous, the black markings themselves 

 not being enlarged or confluent. 



