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Show 1893.1 BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 655 57. HYPANIS ACHELOIA. Hypanis acheloia, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 29 (1857). Rhodesia, Lake Mweru, June 11, 1892; Zomba, July and December 1892. 58. ACR.EA YINIDIA. Acrcea vinidia, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xi. p. 130 (1874) ; Exot. Butt, v., Acrcea, pi. 7. figs. 45, 46 (1875). Rhodesia, Lake Mweru, June 12, 1892. 59. ACRCEA CABIRA. Acrcea cabira, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. 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. ACRCEA EXCELSIOR. Acrcea excelsior, E. M. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 192, pi. fig. 3. 2 , Zomba, January 1893. 61. ACRCEA YENTURA. Acrcea ventura, Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Mag. xiv. p. 51 (1877). 2- Above quite like a large reddish female of A. eponina1; 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. ACRJEA TERPSICHORE. Papilio terpsichore, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 222 (1764). Papilio eponina 2 •> Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. cclxviii. C, D (1782). Zomba, July 1892. M y view (Fabr. Cat. p. 133) that P. terpsichore was Acrcea 1 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 Acrcea viola; the Linnsean description "Apices fusci lunula in medio " corresponds m u c b better with Cramer's female of 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, Fabr., optime referri posset, nisi alee posticas saturations essent." |