1893.] BRITISH CEXTRAL ArUICA. 655 



57. HTPAIfIS ACHELOIA. 



Hyixinis aclieloia, Wallengren, Lep. Ehop. Cafe. p. 29 (1857). 



Ehodesia, Lake Mweru, June 11, 1S92 ; Zomba, July and 

 December 1892. 



58. ACE-JIA TENIDIA. 



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

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

 Ehodesia, Lake Mweru, June 12, 1892. 



59. ACEiEA CABIEA. 



Acrcea cabira, Hopffer, Ber. Verb. Akad. Berlin, 1855, p. 640, 

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

 (1862). 



Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



60. Acb.3:a excelsioe. 



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

 fig. 3. 



$ , Zomba, January 1893. 



61. ACE.EA VENTUEA. 



Acrmi Ventura, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 51 (1877). 



$ . 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 band ; the markings of the external border 

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

 line having much larger marginal triangular spots. Expanse of 

 wings 60 millim. 



Zomba, July 1892. 



62. ACExEA TEEPSICHOEE. 



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

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

 (1782). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



My view (Fabr. Cat, p. 133) that P. terpsicliore was Acrcea 



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

 the A. serena group (Ann. & Mag. N. H., October 1S93), this is the typical 

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

 only difficulty is that, in the ab.sence of the Fabrician typo of A. serena, his 

 description is insufficient for the certain identification of tlie 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 Acrcea. vioUe ; the Linnwan description " A])icc8 fuaci 

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

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

 on the species described by Linnujus, says : " fortasso ad Acrcea serena, Fabr., 

 optime referri posset, nisi alas posticsB saturatiores essent." 



