14 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



immediately before the hind-mai'ginal row of greenish ones ; 

 and a row of similar spots on hind-margin at ends of nervules. 

 Hind-wing : two black, superiorly crimson-edged spots on 

 costa, between the two transverse stripes ; crimson spots at 

 anal angle rather paler than above. Sides of abdomen 

 transversely banded with black ; tinged with crimson at 

 base. 



" Bay of Port Natal."— Boisd., App. to Voy. de Deleg., 



p. 5m. 



West Africa. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



4. Papilio Policenes. 



Papilio Policenes, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 37, f. A, B. 



Papilio Pompilius, Herbst. and Jahl., Ins. — Schmett., Ill, 



[pi. 49, f. 5, 6. 



Papilio Agapenor, Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 26, n. 76. 



Iphiclides Pompilius, Hiihn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 82. 



Papilio Polixenus, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 52, n. 77. 



Papilio Policenes, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 261, n. 84. 



Papilio Agapenor, Westw., Arc. Ent., I, p. 149. 



Papilio Policenes, G. R. Grav, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 32, 



[n. 150. 



Smaller than P. Antheus, to which it is closely allied. 

 Hind-wings tailed. 



Expands 3 in. — 3 in. 5 lin. 



Dark-brown, with pale-green stripes and spots. Bases of 

 wings green ; a stripe of the same colour from costa of fore- 

 wing near base to a crimson spot at anal angle of hind-wing. 

 Fore-wing : three transverse stripes from costa to median 

 nervure ; beyond these, two spots on costa, the outer one of 

 the two connected with an irregular row of somewhat quad- 

 rate spots from costa near apex to near middle of inner- 

 margin (this row is continued across hind wing to anal angle) ; 

 a row of eight spots along hind-margin. Hind-wing : a row 

 of from four to six thin lunules along hind-margin ; tail long, 

 narrow, black, tipped with whitish. Under-side. — Similar 

 in pattern, but much paler Xho-Xi upper-side. Hind-wing: a 

 brown band, outwardly-margined with an irregular edging of 

 seven elongate, crimson markings, from costa before middle 

 to anal angle ; on hind-margin, near anal angle, three black, 

 blue-powdered lunules, one above, two below, the tail. 

 Abdomen longitudinally striped with black. 



Natal.— In Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Natal. West Africa. Sierra Leone. Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. 



[Mus. 



