58 FAMILY papii.tonid.t:. 



Signer Bertoloni received C Florella $ from Inhainbano, and observing its near resemblance to 

 the P. Afairrlliiia of Cramer, came to the conclusion that the latter species was indigenous to the east 

 coast of Africa. 



Mt. Trimen remarks (Rhop. Afr., Austr) : — " I once saw this butterfly at Knysna, on the 11th of 

 March, 1859, flying rajjidly over the marshes near the river. I chased it for some time, but when close 

 upon it, by an unlucky fall gave the insect time for so long a start, that it was useless to try further 

 pursuit. An aged specimen of the female, from the same locality was given me by a lady who took it 

 there some years ago. The insect is cons]iicuous in flight, owing to its bright-yellow colour." 



The chrysalis figured was sent with the pirfoct insect from Sierra Leone by llr. Foxcroft. 



15. CaUidrycts Eahulc, fi(js. 7 — 10. 

 $ Papilio Eiibulo, Ziniueiis, Syst. Nat. 2, p. 71-3, n. 102 (17GG). 



Male. Wings above sidphur yellow, unspotted, ^vith niirrow marginal mealy band : below 

 sulphur yellow ; frontwings with paler internal area, an irregular rosy-centred ring-spot at end of cell 

 and a deeply bisinuate series of eight brown spots beyond it : hindwings with two silver-centred spots 

 at end of cell, encircled by an irregular discal series of ten or eleven red-brovni scale-spots, sometimes 

 obsolete. 



Female. Wings above sul])luu' yellmv, with orange margin, the ncrvuros terminating in black 

 spots ; frontwings with large black disco-cellular spots, and sometimes with an indistinct scries of discal 

 spots towards apex : below golden yellow, the margins deeper coloui'ed ; frontwings with a large geminate 

 silver-centred ring-spot, the discal spots as in male, but redder ; hindwings with two silver-centred 

 ring-spots j)laced oblicjuely upon a squamose rusty band at end of cell, and encircled by a discal series 

 of irregular reddish markings ; several reddish spots at base. 



Localities S, 9, St. John's Bluff, (E. DouUvdaij), B. ]\r., Coll., Saunders ; N. America, Coll. 



Druce. 



Ur. Boisduval rightly observes that tlic indiviihials from North America have the wings less 

 rounded than those from South America, but I cannot agree with him in considering the Southern 

 form a local variety of C. EuhuJe, I would rather call it a representative form of the latter, since the 

 female differs constantly in its smaller size, deeper or paler* colouring, and more strongly defined 

 markings. 



Messrs. Smith and Abbot figure both sexes of C. Euhiile in their " Lepidopterous Insects of 

 Georgia," with the food-plant Cassia chamw-crista ; they call attention to " the conformity of colours 

 between the flowers of this plant, and the fly bred upon it ; " the following observations on the transfor- 

 mations of this (figured on the plate) are added " one of them spun itself up the 30th of August, 



changed the next day, and the perfect insect appeared September 10th; another spun on the 23rd 

 of September, changed the 24th, and came out on the Gth of October. 



A wliite form occurs at llomluras aud Venezuela. 



