2 22 SOrill-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



green ; a well-defined, raised, pale-yellow line curving along each side 

 from apex of dorso-thoracic peak, and meeting at anal extremity. On 

 back a similar thinner line, starting from same peak (but near its 

 base), almost immediately branches into two gently divergent lines, 

 which from third abdominal segment gradually converge, to meet again 

 at anal extremity. Between these lateral and dorsal lines, on each 

 side a series of very thin V-like yellow marks (with the angles directed 

 backward), and all truncated by the segmental incisions. On third 

 abdominal (seventh) segment, a small ferruginous spot in a dull- 

 creamy ring adjoins each dorsal line on its inner side about the 

 middle. About midway between the lateral line and the cephalic }>ro- 

 minence on each side, a somewhat sinuous, less distinct, pale-yellow 

 line, which on wing-cover marks position of median nervure, and emits 

 thin indications of positions of nervules. In addition to these princi- 

 pal pale-yellow markings, there are numerous minor reticulations and 

 dottings of the same colour distributed over the surface. Frontal line 

 of dorso-thoracic peak, from its apex to head, minutely roughened, ami 

 coloured dull-ferruginous, with a few creamy specks. 



The larva is described from four Natalian specimens (one of an 

 early moult) forwarded by Colonel Bowker in November 1878. I did 

 not rear the perfect insect from them, but two of them became pup^ 

 quite like those of Morania ; and coloured drawings (accompanied by 

 the wings of that species) lent me by Mrs. Monteiro in 1883 (made 

 from Delagoa Bay larvte), agreed closely with my description above 

 given. ■^ 



Of the pupa, I received from Colonel Bowker thirteen living speci- 

 mens, and obtained the imago from each one, ten butterflies appearing 

 between 24th November and i6th December 1878. Of the remain- 

 ing three, two did not make their appearance before a year afterwards 

 (14th November and 9th December 1879), and the last not until 14th 

 March 1880. Colonel Bowker noted the date of pupation in five 

 instances, so that I can record the normal duration of the chrysalis 

 state in those few cases as varying from twelve to sixteen days. It is 

 noticeable that in outline this pupa does not simulate a complete leaf 

 so well as that of P. Brasidas, but the anterior extremity, with the 

 concave, roughened, and ferruginous-tinted line from the tip of the 

 thoracic peak to the head, gives precisely the effect of the irregular 

 edge of a leaf gnawed and partly eaten away by insects. The under 

 side of the mid-rib of a leaf is usually the situation of the suspended 



^ In 18S6 Mrs. Monteiro .succeeded in taking alive to England various puptc of Dela- 

 goan Papilioncs, and wrote to me in November of that year that P. Morania was appear- 

 ing at the Insect House of the Zoological Gardens " from two distinct caterpillars." There 

 can be little doubt that the two different larvte wei-e those of Corinneus and Morania 

 respectively, as both butterflies resulted from pupae left at the South-African Museum by 

 Mrs. Monteiro while I was away from the Colony. As far as the exuvia; of the Cormneus 

 pupa go, I can see no difference between it and Morania pupic, except the greater pro- 

 minence of both tile dorso-thoracic peak and the cephalic prujections. 



