Pp As Pet eOuN, Tes. 
PAPILIO. XIII. 
PAPILIO KIRBYI. 42. 
Papilio Kirbyi. Hewitson. Ent. Mon. Mag., p. 146 (1872). 
Uprrrsrpr. Male dark brown. Both wings crossed by a central, narrow, equal 
band of white, commencing near the apex of the anterior wing, where it is straight, 
by an isolated spot, and ending near the middle of the inner margin of the posterior 
wing, where it is curved. Posterior wing with a long tail, white at the end: a 
submarginal series of indistinct white linear spots. 
UnpersiDE as above, except that the posterior wing has a black spot bordered 
above with carmine near the costal margin above and touching the central band, 
acarmine spot marked with black within and at the end of the cell, a spot of the 
same colour below this, a lunular carmime spot bordered above with white at the 
end of the central white band, and another spot of the same colour on the abdominal 
margin. 
Exp. 33 inch. Hab. Lagos. 
In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 
This species, so unlike anything African except the following, was kindly presented to my collec - 
tion by Mr. George Semper, of Altona. 
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Published July 1st, 1873.] 
