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Show 116 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Jail. 14, the species. All that can be said is, that in Central and Africa a variety occurs which (in its extreme development) has been named A. daira. 34. ACRJEA ANACREON. Acrcea anacreon, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1868, p. 77, pi. vi. hgs. 3-5. 3. Var. Acrcea bomba, H. G. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 128 (1880); Rhop. Exot. i. Acr. pi. iii. figs. 5, (1892). Acrcea induna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 184, pi. 5. figs. 3, 3 a. 3, Nyankowa Mt., 5575 feet alt., Nyika, April 10th; Kanto-rongondo Mt., 7305 feet alt., Nyika, April 16th ; $ , Cheni-Cheni Mt., 7225 feet alt., Nyika, April 17th, 1895. Intermediate grades to A. bomba : 3 3, Nyankowa Mt., 5575 ft. alt., Nyika, April 9th and 10th; Kantorongondo Mt., 7305 feet alt,, Nyika, April 16th. W e received a typical female of A. bomba (but somewhat melanistic) from Zomba; it is the species referred to P. Z. S. 1895, p. 262, n. 45. The black apical area and the width of the band on under surface of secondaries are both variable characters of no specific importance. 35. ACR^lA GUILLEMEI. 3 . Acrcea guillemei, Oberthiir, Etudes, livr. xvii. p. 19, pi. fig. 1 (1893); 2 • Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 658. Var. 3 • Acrcea periphanes, Oberthiir, Z. c. p. 20, pi. 2. fig. (1893). Var. periphanes. 3, Henga, W . of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 22nd, 1895. " Scarlet black-spotted and black-tipped Fritillary " (R. ft). This is a rare variety of A. guillemei, differing in nothing excepting the broad black apical patch of the primaries-a variation which crops up in a great number of species and is, doubtless, seasonal. 36. ACKJEA DOUBLEDAYI. Acrcea doubledayi, Guerin, Lefebvre's Voy. en Abyss, vi. p. 378 (1847). Acrcea onccea, Hopffer, Peters' Reise n. Mossamb. v. pi. 24. figs. 5-8 (1862). Acrcea axina, Westwood in Oates's Matabele-Land, p. 344, pi. F. figs. 5, 6 (1881). Var. Acrcea dirccea, Westwood, 1. c. p. 348. 2 . Telchinia nero, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, ser. vol. xii. p. 102 (1883). 3 , Lumpi R., Lower Nyika, W . of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 2nd, 1S95. " Small speckled Fritillary " (R. ft). |
