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" Papilioninae. — I very soon found there was a handsome 

 species [P. (initials nyassae, But!.] here, new to me, reminding 

 me of policenes, Ur.; but appearing paler, and with longer 

 tails. Curiously enough I do not find its tails nearly so 

 brittle as in policenes, of which it is hardly possible to take 

 a perfect specimen out of the net. 



" I suspect this species to be a Southern form, as I have 

 never seen it before : it is a beautiful, Oriental-looking thing. 

 " P. leonidas, F., is very common. It is of a blue form, 

 and thus new to me, as I have Hitherto only met the greenish 

 form of Uganda, It has favourite spots over which it will 

 soar backwards and forwards [see S. A. Neave in P.Z.S., 

 1910, p. 68], and if one is caught, another will almost at 

 once haunt the same spot. I have not seen its model 

 here." 



Capt. Carpenter's specimens entirely confirm his statement, 

 being distinctly bluer than those from further north. I 

 remember that this point was raised inferentially in a letter 

 written to me from Katanga or North-East Khodesia by 

 Mr. S. A. Neave. In it he maintained that leonidas was a 

 mimic of an Amauris of the type of hyalites dannfelti, Auriv., 

 rather than of Tirumala petiverana, Dbl. and Hew. He 

 referred in his letter to the apparent blueness of the former 

 in the wild state as being very different from its black-and- 

 white appearance in the cabinet. In his paper published 

 later in the Proc. Zool. Soc, 1910, p. 8, Mr. Neave says that 

 the transparent spots of the model's fore-wing, " due perhaps 

 to their moie or less green background in nature, look pale 

 green on the wing." But in writing to me I distinctly 

 remember how he emphasised the blueness. 



Mr. Neave kindly wrote on March 29, 1918: "Yes, I 

 recollect that examples of P. leonidas from Uganda were 

 greener than those from North-Eastern Rhodesia and Katanga. 

 I have no definite recollection about this species in German 

 territory. I was there such a comparatively short time that 

 I may not have taken it at all. I think I originally wrote 

 you re the apparent blue or green colour of the white patches 

 of Amauris from Katanga, as this was the first locality in 

 which 1 had seen examples of the Amauris of this group in 



