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would have said—if Sir Francis Bacon or Thomas Tusser, gent., 
had consulted him upon a similar point—that there emerge 
three good species thus: 
(1) Fanatopus (Stephanus) indicus, Westw. 1841 = F’. rujiceps, 
Smith, 1861. 
(2) Parastephanellus (Megischus) ruficeps, Cam. 1887 (nec 
Smith) = capitatus, Schlet. 1889. 
(8) Stephanus (Megischus) ruficeps, Sauss. 1904 (nec Cam.) 
= saussurei, Schul. 
N.B.—'The second species may or may not be includible in the 
subgenus Hemistephanus of Parastephanellus: the question is 
not put. 
CuauDE Mortey. 
Monks’ Soham House, Suffolk: April 25th, 1916.] 
NOTES ON SOME SPRING AND AUTUMN BUTTERFLIES 
OF CANNES AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. 
By H. Rownanp-Brown, M.A., F.E.S. 
(Continued from p. 152.) 
PAPILIONID. 
‘In the ‘Naturalista Siciliano,’ Anno v. 1886, under date 
‘*Cannes, June 23rd, 1886,” Miulliére published a note on the 
occurrence in June, 1883, of Papilio (Euphocades) troilus, 
P. (Iphiclides) ajax, and P. cingras, Cramer, in a sheltered 
valley close to the port of Monaco. There is little doubt that 
they had been introduced by an American timber trader unload- 
ing in the harbour. Mr. Fléersheim, in his interesting account 
of breeding experiments with Papilionide in Britain, discusses 
the chances of acclimatising the first-named two species (‘ Ento- 
mologist,’ xlvii). The climate and the flora of the south of 
France suggest that, had the entomologists responsible for the 
discovery allowed these fine Papilios the liberty accorded desirable 
aliens, a race of Papilionids new to France might have been 
added to the already, palearctically speaking, rich Papilionid 
fauna of the Mediterranean. The ground where the captures 
were made does not appear to have been re-visited for the 
purpose in subsequent years. I include this note in my remarks 
on the local butterflies as Milliére’s account in the ‘ Sicilian 
Naturalist’ has not received the same measure of publicity 
from later French authors as those elsewhere dealing with 
immigrant lepidoptera. The Milliére separata, from which I 
have transcribed, are bound up with a number of others now in 
the Library of the Entomological Society of London, and on 
