6 [JuDi?, 



the collection. When it came to me, it was composed cLiefly of tlirec 

 species of Papilio, viz., P. Leonidas, F. Antlieiis, and tlie till now rare 

 -P. Porthaon. 



One species, whicli I now describe, is of great interest, from ita 

 singular colouring and its proximity to AJccna Amazoula. 



ALiENA NtASSA. 



Upper-side: dark brown. Both wings crossed near the middle 

 by a broad band of white: curved on the anterior wing where it 

 extends from the costal to the inner margin, and is divided by the 

 nervures, which are black, into eight parts, three of which near the 

 costal margin are minute .- the fringe white. 



Vnder-side: anterior-wing as above, except that there are two 

 w'hite spots in the cell, that the costal margin (which is narrow) and 

 the apex (which is bi'oad and intersected by the nervures which are 

 black), are pale yellow. Posterior- wings pale yellow with the nervures 

 from the base to the middle, a minute spot in the cell, a spot near the 

 inner margin, a linear spot at the end of the cell, two transverse sub- 

 marginal bands and the nervures which cross them and the outer 

 margin, all black. 



Exp. -ixs inch. Hah. : Lake Nyassa. 



Oatlanda, Weybridge : April, 1877. 



ANTISPILA EIVILLJEI—THE STJMMEE BEOOD. 

 BY n. T. STAINTON, F.R.S. 



Since noticing the re-discovery of this insect (Ent, Mo. Mag.> 

 vol. ix, p. 54) a further scrap of information has come to me. 



In July, 1876, Professor Rondani met with the larva) of this 

 species in vine leaves in his garden at Parma, and he noticed that 

 when these larvae were full-fed and had cut out their oval cases, they 

 attached them to the leaves and branches of the vines, so as to 

 liang perpendicularly. The suspension of the cases noticed by De 

 Riville at Malta in the last century has thus been confirmed. In 

 ten or twelve days the perfect insects began to make their ap- 

 pearance. 



Professor Rondani has printed in detail his observations on these 

 insects, with careful notices of both larva and imago ; but I know not 

 where this memoir is published ; a separate copy of it, sent by the 

 author to the Entomological Society of Stettin, reached me through 

 the kindness of Professor Zeller, but it bears on it no trace of 

 its origin. 



Mouiitsfield, Lewisham ; Mai/ lOih, 1877. 



