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but more elongate, — that on costa not reddish itself, but the 

 first lunule of sub-marginal row bounding it externally, like 

 that on inner-margin, dull-red ; between the two spots, more 

 or less marked indications of similar spots, of which, how- 

 ever, only one (that next to inner-marginal spot) is distinctly 

 blue-scaled : tail long, spatulate, marked on each side near 

 its extremity with an elongate pale-yellow inwardly-convex 

 spot. Under-side. — Similar, paler, all the markings much 

 suffused : all nervures more or less completely edged with 

 pale-yellowish on both sides, especially lower edge of costal 

 nervure of hind-wing ; in both wings, a. longitudinal streak 

 between median and submedian nervures. Fore-wing : 

 streaks in cell better defined. Hind-iving : three streaks in 

 cell, like those of fore-wing ; traces of ocelliform spots 

 between the two ocelli much better marked, all more or less 

 blue-scaled. 



This splendid species, the finest of the South African Papilioncs and 

 the largest butterfly liitherto found in the country, has been taken in some 

 abundance by Mr. Bowker in Kaffraria Proper. It is allied to P. Demo- 

 lens, but may at once be recognised by its large size and long spatutate 

 tails. I have not seen any specimens from Natal, nor heard of its 

 occurrence there, but there can be little doubt that it does inhabit that 

 Colony. Mr. Bowker gives me the following notes on the habits of this 

 Papilio: "Only found in deep wooded kloofs, near running water, but 

 in such localities all over the Transkeian territory. They fly steadily back- 

 wards and forwards about a certain spot, always keeping at a distance of 

 about five feet from the ground. They first make their appearance at the 

 end of September or beginning of October." 



Bashee River, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). — Coll. Tri. et 

 ColL S. A. Mus. 



Sierra Leone. Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Coast of Guinea." — Boisd., op. cit. 



Family PIERID^. 

 Genus PIERIS. 



215. Pieris Poppea. 



Papilio Poppea, Cram., Pap. Exot., pi. 110, f. D. 



„ „ Herhst, Nat. Bek. Ins. — Schmett., pi. 89, 



[f.5. 



„ „ Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 18. 



Pieris „ Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 138. 



„ „ Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 511. 



Exp. 2 in.— 2 in. 6 lin. 

 Allied to P. Jgathina., Cram. 



