( 1S7 ) 

 loo. Papilio dardanus antinorii. 



P,ipih<, .i//;;«ii/v/" Oberthttr, Ann. Mas. Civ. Geic^ni xviii, p. 711. t. '.I. f . 4 ( J )(lH«:i) (.Shoa) : Aurlv., 

 /..■. p. 404. n- (1899) (Abyssinia ; Somaliland). 



Localities: Abd-el-Kadr, south of Harar, 14.V.1900 ; GilletMts., liioil— 220(i m., 

 29. vi. 1900,4. vii. 1900 ; Walenso, Gillet Mts., 2000 ra., 9. vii. I'.inu ; (iara-Daij or 

 Almnass, 1900—2200 m., 10. vii. 1900; Abulcassim, 2400— 2000 m., 10. vii. 1900; 

 Koritsclia to Toruata, Dara H., Gndji, 24. xii. 1900; Wori to (Taniitsclia, Kaffii, 

 r>. iii. 1901; Anderatscha, Kaffa, 12 to lO.iii. 190l ; Kankati to Ujibbe, Djimnia, 

 20. iii. 1901. 



A long series of S S, but only two ? ?, wbich belong to the ordinary kind re- 

 sembling the male. The underside of the hindwing and the apical area of the under- 

 side of the forewing varies in the depth of the 3-ellow tint, some specimens being 

 more or less ochraceous, while others are as pale below as above. This difference, 

 which is met with also in the other subspecies of ilardanus, is not seasonal. The 

 upperside is slightl}' deeper yellow in some specimens than in others. The black 

 area of the upperside of the forewing has a nearly straight proximal edge. from 

 S(J^ — SM-, apart from the dentition at the veins, and forms a kind of hook at the 

 costal margin, the creamy area occupying the base of the cellule SC — SC° to a 

 larger extent than even in the iVlalagasic subspecies meriones. This creamy triangle 

 SC^ — iSC is occasionally produced distad along SC, being sometimes even con- 

 nected with the subapical spot ISC'* — SC'-'', which in this case is produced jiroximad 

 along .S(J'. The black discal spots R' — W of the upperside of the hindwing are 

 small, sometimes absent ; the black anal patch is comparatively large, often 

 connected with the marginal spot M-, seldom divided at M- into two jiatches, and 

 includes often a few pale scales indicating a transverse division of the patch ; the 

 black snbmarginal spots are as a rule sejiarate, the middle ones being generally 

 very small, even vestigia], but there occur specimens in which the spots form a 

 continuous zigzag baud from C to R^ ; the tail is mostly cream-colour, with a small 

 black central streak, not rarely all cream-colour, and occasionally more extended 

 black than creamy. The upper two cell-streaks of the underside of the hindwing 

 are not rarely on a long stalk, as in most meriones. 



P. (lariL antinorii occurs northwards to Eritrea ; the southern limit of its range 

 is as yet not known. 



There are five Continental subspecies of dardanus : 



(a) P. dardanus cenea from South Africa, gradually merging into the next. 



(b) P. dardanus tihaUiis from tropical East Africa (Delagoa Bay northwards). 



(c) P. dardanus poh/trcipliug* from the mountainous districts east and west of 

 the Eldoma Ravine, gradually merging into the next. 



(d) P. dardanus dardanus from West Africa, ranging from Sierra Leone to 

 Angola and Uganda. 



(e) ]'. dan/anus antinorii from Abyssinia and Somaliland. 



Herr Snffert's Papilio boosi, Iris xvii. p. )!i9. t. 1. f. 2 ((5') (1904) is the same as 

 poli/trop/ius. The specimen is certainly not from Dar-es-Salaam, where P. dardanu.^i 

 tihullus is found, but came doubtless from the hills above Nairobe, in British East 

 Africa, whence Herr Suffert has also received Lepidoptera, according to his j)ai)cr. 



* Nvr. Zool. xi. p. 488 (l'.>03). This very interesting .subspecies is not mentioned by Trinien in his 

 account of the forms of dardanm (all treated as different " species," in spite of the intergradations) ; 

 see Tran.1. Ent. Sac. Loud. p. CiU (December 1901). 



