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specimens taken by both Eaffray and Antinoii were of the Lyceus form, 

 we may conckide that this is emphatically the form of the East and 

 South, as Nircus is of the West. 



This very beautiful species is common and ■widely spread over Eastern 

 South Africa, wherever native woods extend ; its soutliern and western limit 

 appearing to be Knysna in Cape Colony, where I found it abundantly. It has 

 a rajnd and powerful flight, often soaring over the highest forest trees, but its 

 frequent visits to flowers render it tolerably easy of capture. In the woods 

 Plumbago capensis seemed its principal attraction, and in gardens the flowers 

 of the orange and the common and Indian periwinkles. At D'Urban, Natal, 

 where it attains its largest size and is very numerous, I often took it at rest on 

 leaves of trees at the edges of woods. There appear to be a succession of 

 broods from September to INIay, and I have records of various stragglers taken 

 during the three winter months, but the butterfly is at this season seldom met 

 witli. The paired sexes were captured by Colonel Bowker at King William's 

 Town in November 1S76, and at D'Urban in January 1888. 



Localities of Papilio Lyceus. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. 



6. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage. Grahamstown, Highlands, and 

 Mitford Park, Albany District. King William's Town. East 

 London {P. Borcherds). Windvogelberg, Queenstown District 

 {G. E. Bulger). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, Mapumulo. "Lower Umkomazi." 



— J. H. Bowker. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Umqueqa Falls. Greytown. Maritzburg (il/iS5 

 Colenso and A. Windham). 

 E. Zululand.— Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. VacheU). 

 G. " Swaziland."— The late E. C. Buxton. 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourengo INIarques [Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — River Shire {Rev. H. Waller). ? " Tchouacka, 



Zanguebar (Bafray)." — Oberthiir — ["Yar. Nireus."] 



B. North Tropical. 



bi. Eastern Interior. — Abyssinia, "Lake Tsana (Raffray)," and 

 " Shoa (Antirwri)." — Oberthiir. 



313. (U.) Papilio Cenea, Stoll.' 



(J Papilio Brutus, Godt. (pars), Encyc. Meth., ix, p. 69, n. 122 (1819). 

 „ „ Donov., Nat. Repos., iii. pi. 77 (1825). 



„ „ Boisd. (pars), Faune Entom. de JNIadag., etc., p. 12 (1833). 



„ ,, Boisd., Var. A., Spec. Gen. Lep., p. 221, n. 39 (1836). 



,, „ Chenu, Encyc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., pi. 2, f. i (?i852). 



Papilio Merope, Doubl. and Westw. (pars). Gen. Diurn. Lep., i. p. 13, 

 n. 92 (1846). 



^ See some remarks on this species and its allies in vol. i. pp. 38, 39. 



