22 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS, 



base of both wings dull-red. Fore-wing : inner-marginal 

 half of wing dark brown, costa narrowly, apex very broadly 

 coloured with ochreous-brown. Hind-wing : ground-colour all 

 ochreous-brown ; a black mark at base containing two white 

 dots ; broad whitish space tinged with yellowish, its edges not 

 so defined as on upper-side ; hind-marginal spots seven in 

 number : a white dot on inner-margin, a little beyond large 

 whitish space. 



The South African examples of this species are smaller and duller in 

 colour than those from Tropical West Africa. They are comprised in Mr. 

 G. R. Gray's " Variety a." 



Natal.— Coll. mihi ; and Coll. S. A. Mus. 



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



10. Papilio Pylades. 



■ Papilio Pylades, Fah., Ent. Sjfst., Ill, 1, p. 34, n. 100. 

 Zelima Pylades, Fab., Syst. Gloss. (Illig. Mag. vol. VI), 

 Papilio Pylades, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 43, n. 54, 

 ,, „ Don., Nat. Repos., I, pi. 13. 



,, „ Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 244, n. 69. 



„ ,, JVestw., Arc. Ent., I, p. 149. 



,, ,, G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep, Brit. Mus., I, 



[p. 7, n. 23. 

 Var. Papilio Morania, Angus' s Kaf. Tllustr., pi. 30, f. 1. 

 ,, „ G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., 



[I, p. 8, n. 24. 

 Expands 2 in. 8 lin. — 3 in. 2 lin. 



Broitmish-hlack ; with white markings slightly tinged with 

 greenish. Fore-wing : three spots in discoidal cell, the inner- 

 most one smallest, rounded, the second elongate, somewhat 

 kidney-shaped, the outer one at extremity of cell, large, 

 semicircular in form ; immediately beyond cell, from one to 

 three small rounded spots in a transverse line from costa ; 

 beyond these, from costa very near apex, an irregular trans- 

 verse row of nine spots, the fifth of which, between second 

 discoidal and first median nervules, is rather large, elongate, 

 and the three last, between second median nervule and inner- 

 margip, are so enlarged as to form a great white space on 

 inner-margin bounded by m^edian nervure, and a broad dark 

 band on hind-margin near anal angle ; a row of eight or 

 nine small rounded spots along hind-margin. Hind-wing : 

 white to extremity of discoidal cell ; a broad dark band on 

 hind-margin, containing two rows of spots, the inner row of 

 four small rounded spots, the outer of six lunular ones ; on 

 inner-margin at inner edge of dark band, a dull chrome- 

 yellow spot ; base and inner-margin grey. Under-side. — 



