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XI. Note on the Capture of the Paired Sexes of Papilio 
Cenea, Stoll. (P. Merope, auct.), in Natal. By 
Rotanp Trimen, F.L.S., &e., Curator of the 
South-African Museum. 
[Read May 4th, 1881.] 
PLATE IX. 
I nave the pleasure of laying before the Entomological 
Society some important additional evidence as to the 
sexes of the polymorphic Papilio Cenea, Stoll. (P. Merope, 
auct.), communicated to me by Colonel James Henry 
Bowker, F.Z.8., a practical naturalist and most accurate 
observer, who has collected and studied in the field 
throughout South Africa for many years, and has given 
special attention to Lepidoptera since the year 1861. 
The species-identity of the pale-yellow tailed P. Merope, 
auct., and the tailless sombre-tinted P. Cenea, P. T'ro- 
phonius, P. Hippocoon, and sundry unnamed varieties 
besides,—indicated by me, in 1868, as in the highest 
degree probable,*—was proved by Mr. J. P. Mansel 
Weale in 1873;+ and his interesting paper describing 
the habits of the butterfly, and giving details of his 
rearing all the four forms from the ova, was published 
by the Society in 1874, together with a memoir of my 
own on the whole case. 
Hitherto, however, although several observers had 
noted the tailed male in pursuit of the tailless female, so 
dusky and so unlike himself, there has been no record of 
the actual pairing of the sexes. This lacking evidence 
has now been supplied by Colonel Bowker, who has 
forwarded to me the male and female specimens which I 
exhibit, with the intelligence that he captured them paired 
in the park at D’ Urban, Port Natal, on the 22nd February 
last. 
It will be noted that these specimens are respectively 
of the forms most prevalent in Natal, viz., the male 
* Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. xxvi., pp. 506—511 (1869). 
+ Trans. Ent. Soc., 1874, pp. 131—136. 
TRANS. ENT. Soc. 1881.—PaRT II. (JULY.) 
