12 RHOPALOCRRA AFRICyE AUSTRALIS. 



margin, slightly scalloped on inner edge, and containing an 

 ovate spot of the pale ground colour near apex. Hind-wing : 

 a series of more or less connected, black, quadrate blotches 

 across wing beyond middle, the largest blotch, before anal 

 angle, containing a small yellow spot close to inner margin j 

 a row of more or less connected black lunules along hind- 

 margin, in some specimens edging one or both sides of tail 

 on 1st median nervule ; tail itself rather elongate and spatula- 

 shaped. Under-side. — Fore-iving : Similar in marking to 

 upper-side, but the marginal bands brownish-ochreous, except 

 at base of costa and inner edge of hind-marginal band, both of 

 which are dull black, the latter widening to anal angle. 

 Hind-wing : Warm ochreous, with a brownish tinge, much 

 paler near base ; longitudinal ferruginous-brown streaks 

 between nervures ; three such longitudinal streaks in discoidal 

 cell ; transverse band of blotches, and hindmarginal lunules, 

 as on upperside, but ferruginous-brown instead of black. 



Woods and copses ; sometimes in gardens, or settling on flowers growing 

 in open ground near woods. 



October (L)— March (m). June, 1861 (D'Urban). 



Has a rapid irregular flight and often settles on flowers. They appear to 

 fly in a circular direction several times over the same ground ; for I re- 

 p.-atedly saw, and once recaptured, a peculiarly-torn specimen, in the same 

 spot, during an hour spent in one of the woods near Knysna, in pursuit of 

 this very handsome species. In the woods at Plettenberg Bay, the flowers 

 of Plumbago Capensis were its chief resort. Common. 



Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. — Coll. milii. 

 D'Urban, Natal (R. C. Jones). 

 Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



King William's Town, British Kaffraria.— Coll. W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. 



Natal, Sierra Ijeone. Madagascar. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Senegal. Mozambique." Boisd. 



2. Papilio Lalandei. 



Papilio Lalandei, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, Suppl. p. 811, 



[n. 121, 2. 



,, „ Boisd., Spec. Gen. Lep., I. p. 326. 



„ ,, „ App. to Voy. de Deleg., p. 585. 



„ „ JFestw., Arc. Ent., I, pi. 37, f. 1, 2. 



,, „ G.Il.Gray,Cat.Lep.Brit.3Ius.,l,-p.20. 



Papilio Delalandii, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., pl.7, f.2. 



Expands 3 in. 8 lin. (according to Westwood's figure). 



Hind-wings tailed. " Wings black, with a median transverse 



band of pale yellow-ochre branching into two on fore-wing ; 



of these branches the inner one is the broadest, and of rather 



a greenish-grey ; this band having, on hind-ioing, six very 



