20 RHOPALOCERA AFRIC^E AUSTRALIS. 



" Country of the Amazulus." — Boisd, (App. to Voy. de 

 Deleg). 



West Africa. Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



8. Papilio Cenea. 



Papilio Cenea, Stoll, Suppl. Cram., pi. 29, f. 1. 



Danais Rechila, Goclt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 183, n. 24. 

 ? . Papilio Trophonius, Weshv., Arc. Eni., I, pi. 39, f. 1,2. 



Papilio Cenea, G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 70, 



[n. 322. 



Expands 3 in. 8 lin. — 4 in. 3 lin. 



$ . Sooty-hlack, with yellow-ochreous spots. Forewing : 

 in discoidal cell, near its extremity, an oblique, outwardly 

 pointing, elongate, narrow marking ; beyond cell, from costa, 

 a transverse curved row of four spots, the lower one, be- 

 tween second and third median nervules, large, elongate- 

 ovate ; an ovate, yellowish-white spot at apex ; two or three 

 pale ochreous spots on hind-margin, between first median ner- 

 vule and sub-median nervure. Hind-wing : a very broad, 

 ochreous, transverse band, its inner edge not far from base, 

 its outer edge — which is convex and slightly crenelated — 

 scarcely extending beyond middle ; near hind-margin a row 

 of twelve rather small spots arranged in pairs between ner- 

 vules, — some of which spots are often obliterated. Under- 

 side. — Pale spots similarly arranged. Fore-wing : apical por- 

 tion of wing broadly coloured with ochreous-hroivn, narrowing 

 towards anal angle ; all the spots, except the largest, white. 

 Hind-wing : ground-colour the same ochreous-brown as apex 

 of fore-wing ; three brown, longitudinal streaks in discoidal 

 cell ; spots along hind-margin white, in pairs, constantly 

 fourteen in number. Fringes very narrow, white in the scal- 

 loped spaces between nervules ; most observable in hind-wing. 

 ? . Differs greatly from $ . Fore-wing : oblique mark 

 in discoidal cell larger, pure white ; beyond cell all the spots 

 white ; a large, sub-ovate, conspicuous white patch takes the 

 place of the two central spots of the four that form a curved 

 row in $ ; the large fourth spot as it were extended into a 

 large, pale .hrick-rp-d semicircle, the base of which occupies all 

 but the outer tip of inner-margin, and the upper edge en- 

 trenches on a portion of discoidal cell. Hind-wing : all of 

 the same brick-red tint, except a broad black band on hind- 

 margin, which contains from eleven to fourteen white spots 

 (some of which are red-tinged) arranged in pairs. Under- 

 side : similar to upper-side, though slightly paler. Apex 

 of fore-iving and hind-marginal band of Idnd-wing of the same 

 ochreous-brown as in $ . 



