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pro-legs. Segment next head with a forked or Y-shaped, 

 peculiarly-scented, retractile organ, protruded when the 

 animal is alarmed or irritated. 



Pupa. — Angulated, head bifid ; suspended by the tail, and 

 hy a silken hand fastened to the body. 



This very extensive Family — 367 species are enumerated 

 in Mr. George Gray's British Museum Catalogue of Papilio- 

 nidse— is very widely distributed throughout the greater part 

 of the world, and contains some of the largest and most 

 splendid Butterflies known. It is, however, but poorly 

 represented in South Africa, only eleven species being as yet 

 known to inhabit the country. All these, however, are 

 large and handsome insects, their flight is irregular but 

 powerful, and nearly all are dwellers in woods. They are 

 comprised in a single genus, namely, the 



Genus PAPILIO. 

 Papilio, Linn, &c. 

 The characters given of the Family Papilio7iidce sufficiently 

 define this Genus. The colours of the South African species 

 are principally various shades of yellow and green, strikingly 

 contrasted with dark-brown or black. The most widely 

 distributed species, and the one most likely to be first cap- 

 tured by the collector, is the fine P. Demoleus, which, from 

 its having occurred in widely-distant and very difierent 

 localities, I imagine to be common throughout the colony. 



1. Papilio Merope. 



Papilio Merope, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 151, f. A, B ; and 

 pi. 378, f. D, E. 



Papilio Brutus, Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 2ii, n. 65. 

 „ „ Herhst, Nat. Bek. Ins. — Sckmett., pi. 46, 



f. 1, 2. 



Laertiades Brutus, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 84. 

 Papilio Brutus, Godt., Ene. Meth., IX, p. 69, n. 122. 

 „ „ Bon., Nat. Repos. III. p. 77. 



„ „ Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad. %c., p. 12. 



„ Spec. Gen. Lep., I, p. 221, n. 39. 

 „ „ Westw., Arc, Ent., I, p. 147. 



„ „ Boisd., Jpp. Voy. de Deleg., p. 585. 



„ „ Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., pi. 2, f. 1. 



Papilio Merope, G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., I. p. 25. 

 Expands 3 in. 2 lin.— 4 in. 3 lin. 



Tailed on hind-wings. Pale straw-yellow, with broad, 

 brownish-black marginal markings. Fore-wing : Costa black- 

 edged, widely so before middle, a broad black band on hind- 



