1920] Holland, Lepidoptera of the Congo 167 



Aterica Boisduval 



(190) 1. Aterica galene (Brown) 



Papilio galene Brown, 1776, New Ills, of Zool., p. 94, PI. xxxvii. 



Aterica theophane Hofffer, 1855, Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, p. 641. 



Aterica galene Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 191, PL XLviiia, b. 



There are thirty males and twenty-three females of this species 

 and its varieties. The form theophane is an extreme in which the light 

 area of the hind wing is broadly suffused with red, but there are inter- 

 grading specimens connecting up these with such specimens as have the 

 light area quite white. One male is labelled as having been captured 

 at Noki in Angola, a few came from Gamangui and were taken in June, 

 but the great majority were captured at Medje in the middle months of 

 the year. 



Hamanumida Hiibner 



(191) 1. Hamanumida dsedalus (Fabricius) 

 Papilio dcedalus Fabricius, 1775, Syst. Ent., p. 482. 



Hamanumida dwdalus Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett,. XIII, p. 191, PL 



XLVl/. 



Of this form, which differs from the following by the duller coloring 

 of the lower side of the wings and the partial suppression of the white 

 spots on that side, there are sixteen males and five females taken at 

 Niangara in November. 



(192) Ifl. Hamanumida daedalus meleagris (Cramer) 



Papilio meleagris Cramer, 1775, Pap. Exot., I, p. 102, PL xlvi, figs. A, B. 

 Hamanumida meleagris Aurivillius, 1912, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 191, PL 

 xlvi/. 



This variet}'^ is repi^esented by a long series of males and females, 

 all of which were taken at Niangara and Farad je in November, except 

 one taken at Noki in Angola, June 24, 1909, and another caught at 

 Avakubi in November 1909. 



The two forms, H. ckedalus and H. meleagris, intergrade and, as both 

 were taken at Niangara in large numbers at the same time of the year, 

 the opinion of Dr. Aurivillius that they represent seasonal forms is 

 open to cjuestion. They are mere color varieties, H. dcedalus having the 

 under surface dull and the white spots for the most part suppressed, 

 and H. meleagris having the under surface of the wings brighter and the 

 white spots present. 



The writer has a large series of both forms collected for him on the 

 Ogove River and at Gaboon b}^ the late Dr. A. C. Good and these, too, 



