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Larva. — Dull yellowish-green, with an interrupted brownisli 

 longitudinal streak along each side of the back. Sides of posterior 

 half dark-brown ; in one place (apparently on ninth segment) the 

 strongly sinuated dorsal margins of this dark-brown closely approxi- 

 mate. Head brownish-sandy. Each of the three thoracic segments 

 bearing dorso-laterally a pair of short forward- and laterally-pointing 

 tubercular projections, — the second and third pairs clustered with 

 small spines. 



Pupa. — Pale bluish-green. Margin expanded laterally about wing- 

 covers, but constricted in two places towards head, so that the outline 

 viewed dorsally or ventrally is sinuated. Dorsal thoracic projection 

 and upper part of edge of wing-covers inferiorly roughened with brown 

 granules, wliich in the latter part are inferiorly edged conspicuously 

 with white. 



These descriptions of the eaxlier stages were made from drawings 

 by Mrs. Monteiro, wbich she kindly lent to me in the year 1883. 



This strikingly handsome " Swallow-Tail," originally described from ex- 

 amples taken at Elbe near Mombas, has been since recorded from otlier more 

 southern stations, but seems limited in range to the Eastern Coast of Africa, 

 where it occurs extra-tropically at Delagoa Bay. Oberthlir notes that it was 

 collected in some abundance by ]\I. Eaffray on the coast opposite Zanzibar, 

 Mrs. Monteiro informed me that it was common at Delagoa Eay ; she noticed 

 that it seldom flew high, but kept about two feet from the ground, pursuing a 

 circular course in and about dense bush. 



Localities of Fcqniio Colonna. 



I. South Africa. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques [Mrs. Monteiro), 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — " Zambesi." — Butler. " Bagamoyo ; Mts. 

 Schimba and Mombaye {Rafraij)." — Oberlhiir. Mombas: 

 " Elbe."— AVard. 



304. (5.) Papilio Leonidas, Pabricius. 



PapiHo similis, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. pi. ix. ff. b, c (1779). 

 Ptqnlio Leonidas, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 35, n. 103 (1793). 



,, ,, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 44, n. 56 (1S19). 



,, ., Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 242, n. 66 (1S36), 



„ „ "Westw., Are. Ent., i. p. 149 (1845). 



,, ,, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 7 (18S4). 



Var. a. Papilio Felojridas, Oberth., Etudes d'Eut., iv. p. 55, pi. v. f. i 

 (1879). 



UxjJ. ciL, ($) 3 in. 0-3 lin. ; (?) 3 in. 5-6 lin. 



$ JJrownish-blacJc, with numerous very pale glaucous-grccnisli spots; 

 a large basal patch of the same colour in hind-iving. Fore-wi7ig : three 

 good-sized oblique marks in discoidal cell, of wliich the smallest (near 



