226 [March, 



ghial cellule is a little longer than broad ; 2nd recurrent ncrruro received a good 

 way in front of the 2nd submarginal ; there is a small horny point in the 2ud sub- 

 marginal cellule. Legs clear white, the apex of posterior tibiffi and tarsi (except at 

 the extreme base) fuscous. Abdomen as long as the head and thorax, thickish, 

 bluntly rounded at the apes, black, the anal segment pale brownish-white ; cerci 

 pale, long, pointing downwards. The saw does not project. Length, 2i lin. 



This species seems to be most nearly related to tlie group of 

 Fahrcei, with which it agrees in the form of the body and antenna?, but 

 the face is not so sharply pointed, the clypeus is truncated at the apex, 

 and the body has much more black on it. From the pallipes group 

 (which have the anus white) the form and colour of the antennae 

 separate it, and the same remark holds good with hyperhoreus. 



Taken in England by the Eev. T. A. Marshall, or, possibly, by 

 his late father. 



31, Willowbank Crescent, Grlasgow : 

 \z)th January, 1878. 



DESCEIPTIDNS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FROM 



WEST AFRICA. 



BY HEEBEET BRUCE, E.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Papilio zoeoastkes, n. sp. 



Form of P. ecJierioides, but larger. Upper-side black, with the bands pure 

 white instead of cream colour, as in P. echerioides, the band on the anterior wing 

 more broken into spots, and those close to the apex much smaller, a small white spot 

 below the third spot of the band nearest the ajjex and close to the outer margin. 

 Posterior wing crossed by a wide white band, much dentated on the outer margin, a 

 submarginal row of four large white spots, crossing the wing from tlie apex to near 

 the anal angle, tlie fringe black and white. 



Under-side much the same as P. echerioides ; the anterior wing with a large 

 white spot at the end of the cell, and a small white spot close to the apex. Pos- 

 terior wing with the basal third rich reddish-brown, below which it is white to 

 beyond the middle, the outer half shaded with liglit and dark brown, the while 

 spots as above. Exp. Sif inch. 



Uab. : Fernando Po. Mus., Druce. 



Ceenis tadimois'is, n. sp. 



Upper-side : anterior wing dark brown. Posterior wing dark brown from the 

 base to beyond the middle, where it shades off into light reddish-brown, the outer 

 margin dark bi'own, crossed below the middle, near the outer margin, by a row of 

 Tery indistinct black spots. 



Under-side : anterior wing yellowish-brown, crossed beyond the cell by an ill- 

 defined band of dark brown, the apex ]>ale brown, crossed by a waved line and three 

 black spots. Posterior wing pale greyish-brown, crossed near the base and at the 

 middle by two waved brown lines, and from the costal mai-gin to the anal angle by a 

 I'ow of seven contiguous ocellated spots, the fourth the smallest ; a submarginal 

 waved brown line. Exp. 21 inch. 



Hah. : Cameroous, • Mus., Druce. 



