1908.] 249 



(several on two occasions), Ctenophthalmus agyrtes, Heller, C. bisoc- 

 todentatus, Kolen., 0. gracilis, Taschb., O. pentacanlhns, Kothsch., and 

 HystricliopsyUa taipce, Curt. 



I know of no further records of beetles from the nests of other 

 British mammals. The capture of Oxytelus clypeonitens, Pand., in 

 the nest of a wood-mouse at Bradfield may point to this being the 

 natural habitat of this rare species. Mr. Britten tells me he has 

 often examined nests of the hedgehog, but has always drawn them 

 blank so far as beetles are concerned, and this has been my experience. 



Bradfield, Berks. : 



October \\th, 1908. 



A NEW PAPILIO FROM AFRICA. 

 BY THE HON. L. W. ROTHSCHILD, Pn.D., F.E.8. 



Papilio leucotjenia, spec. nov. 



Body sepia colour, eyes with an indistinct creamy border, the femora dirty 

 cream colour, tibia? and tarsi somewhat transparent with a greenish tint, the tarsi 

 being less pale than the tibiae ; abdomen with a creamy spot on each side ventrally 

 at the base, the ventral surface clothed with buffish creamy hairs ; clasper elongate- 

 triangular, the harpe long, somewhat shaped like a hockey stick. Antenna? more 

 than two-thirds the length of the cell of the fore-wing. 



Wings, above, proximally sepia colour, distally brownish-black ; a straight 

 creamy band across the disc of both wings, traversed by the thinly black veins, the 

 band on fore-wing touching the lower angle of the cell, gradually widening pos- 

 teriorly, being 8 to 10 mm. wide at the hind margin, and becoming a little broader 

 in the centre of the hind-wing, and then narrowing again towards the abdominal 

 margin, whicl) it reaches close to the anal angle ; the outer edge of the band on the 

 hind-wing rounded and at the veins slightly dentate, the inner edge being quite 

 straight and crossing the cell a little distally of the submedian vein ; the disc dusted 

 with creamy scales at the outer edge of the band of the hind-wing ; fore-wing, 

 moreover, with a small creamy subapical spot. Distal margin of fore-wing spotted 

 and scalloped much as in P. mackinnoni, Sharpe (1891), but at the apex much more 

 sti'ongly, the subapical rounded tooth (at the 4th subcostal) distinctly projecting ; 

 the basal half of the fore-wing covered with very numerous short hairs, but there 

 are no cottony streaks. Hind-wing very hairy in the basal half, strongly dentate, 

 with a long spatulate tail, which is shaded with buffish scales, the apex remaining 

 black, the two teeth situated behind the tail long, the fringe spots creamy, resem- 

 bling those of P. mackinnoni. 



Under-side : fore-wing uuiformly brownish-black from the base to the band, 

 with a creamy spot in the lower angle of the cell, the apical area mottled with pale 

 cinnamon, creamy and blackish, there being a submarginal row of indistinct creamy 

 spots down to the posterior angle. Hind- wing very much variegated with pale 



