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Show 220 MESSRS. G O D M A N A N D S A L V I N O N [Apr. L we detect no signs of any notable peculiarities; indeed the majority of the species are also found over a wide extent of the African continent, some spreading to the Cape Colony, others to East Africa, and even to the valley of the Nile and Abyssinia. W e have ventured to describe as new two species of Acraa, both rather obscure forms, of one of which we have long possessed several examples. NYMPH ALIDJE. DANAIN^E. 1. DANAIS ALCIPPUS. Papilio alcippus, Cram. Pap. Ex. t. 127. f. E, F. Danais alcippus, Butl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 46. Several specimens of this form of D. chrysippus, agreeing with others from Abyssinia and elsewhere. SATYRINiE. 2. MYCALESIS VULGARIS. Mycalesis vulgaris, Butl. Cat. Sat. B. M . p. 130, t. 3. f. 2. A single specimen, agreeing with the type in the British Museum. 3. MYCALESIS DOLETA. Mycalesis doleta, Kirby, Proc. Roy. Dubl. Soc. (2) ii. p. 336 (1880). Agrees with specimens thus named in the British Museum. 4. MYCALESIS DESOLATA. Mycalesis desolata, Butl. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xviii. p. 480. Compared with Mr. Butler's types from Abyssinia. 5. MYCALESIS R^ESACES. Mycalesis rasaces, Hew. Ex. Butt. (Mycalesis), t. 8. f. 51, 52. Agrees with Old-Calabar specimeus whence Hewitson's types were derived. 6. YPHTHIMA ITONIA. Yphthima itonia, Hew. Trans. Ent. Soc. (3) ii. p. 287, t. 18. f. 13. Hewitson's types came from the White Nile. They differ from Forbes's specimens in having the submarginal ocelli of the secondaries decidedly larger, a character of small importance in species of this and the allied genera. ACRJEIN^E. 7. AcRiEA LYCIA. Papilio lycia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 464. There are a number of examples in the collection of both sexes this very common African insect. |