6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
expand rather under one inch and a half, but the majority expand 
from two to two and a half inches. The shape of the hind 
wings is peculiar, as they are generally produced into a lobe at 
the anal angle, and there is a short projection or tail at the lower 
part of the hind margin, where the wing is angulated. Many of 
the species are white, frequently more or less bordered with 
brown. The border is generally marked with tawny at the anal 
angles, and sometimes with a more or less distinct row of black 
spots in pale rings. ‘Towards the base the white species are 
marked with very delicate transverse lines, or with double black 
lines, filled up with brown, or (in the African species) with pale 
yellow. Another group of the genus is tawny, with single or 
double transverse brown lines (in the latter case filled up with the 
ground colour); and a third group is dark brown, with paler 
transverse lines towards the base, a submarginal row of eyes, and 
a tawny spot at the anal angle of the hind wings. Across the 
centre of the wings is a transverse band of white, varying in 
width. 
This genus is represented in South America by the genus 
Megalura. These are more robust insects, and might be mistaken 
for Papilios but for their undeveloped front legs, as there is 
a long tail at the lower part of the hind margin of the hind 
wings, and a lobe at the anal angle, which in some species is also 
greatly produced. Most of the species are of some shade of dark 
brown, or tawny, with slender dark lines running from the costa 
across both wings: some, however, are tawny, with broad dark 
margins, and the basal half of the hind wings blue. One species, 
M. Harmonia, Klug, is yellowish white, with slender lines. 
M. Peleus and Elewcha are long-winged tawny species, with 
transverse black lines, and have three tails on the hind wings, 
that in the centre being the longest. The typical group expand 
about two inches and a half; the long-winged species are larger. 
The genus Victorina likewise consists entirely of South 
American species. They are rather large insects, with dentated 
hind wings, the middle tooth projecting into a short tail. One of 
the commonest species is V. Steneles (three or four inches in 
expanse), which has a superficial resemblance to Colenis Dido, 
being brown, with a broad greenish central band on the hind 
wings, which is broken into large spots in the fore wings, and 
there is an outer row of green spots, preceded by a red spot or 
