352 Mr. Roland Trimen on 



species as frequenting the common willow {Salix garie- 

 pensis?), and states that the larvte had almost destroyed 

 some young -willows planted in his garden, adding that 

 the "St. Helena willow ^^ remained untouched. 



The type-form of this species is figured by Drury from 

 a large ? example from " China." African specimens 

 generally differ from the Oriental ones, by presenting 

 only very faint traces of, or wholly wanting, on the 

 upperside, a row of three or four spots continuous of the 

 macular marking on costa of fore-^vings beyond the 

 middle, which row is prolonged across the hind-wings, 

 from the costal streak of those wings, by some short 

 disconnected blackish lines ; and also by wanting, on 

 the upperside of the hind-wings, certain small markings 

 of the underside, viz., a dot in the discoidal cell near its 

 upper angle, and an indistinct row of disconnected short 

 lines near the base. It must be noted, however, that all 

 these missiAg or vague markings, as far as the upperside 

 of the African specimens is concerned, are always present 

 as usual on the underside ; and also that the distinction 

 between African and Asiatic examples is not constant, 

 as Cramer (Pap. Exot. pi. ccxxxviii. f. A), figures a 

 specimen from "China" or the "Coromandel Coast," 

 which not only agrees with African individuals generally, 

 in wanting all the upperside markings just enumerated, 

 but even makes an approach to the Congo vanation, 

 named Eurytis by E. Doubleday, in its defect of one 

 (that nearest the base) of the three ordinary spots Ijnng 

 immediately below the median nervure of the fore- wings. 

 As noted in my Rhop. Afr. aust. p. 117, the underside 

 colouring and strength of marking varies much, as well 

 in African as in Asiatic * specimens ; and 1 am, on the 

 whole, of opinion, that there is but one species, common 

 to both continents. 



Genus Pyrameis, Hiibner. 



Pyrameis cardui. 



Papilio cardui, Linn. S. N. ii. 774. 



This is noted as numerous in Basuto-land. A (^ 

 example received from Mr. Bowker, is well-developed 



*A rather small (J, from "Coromaudel," figured on Cramer's pi. 

 cccxxxvii. f. D. E., is a remarkable example of very strong marking on 

 both surfaces of the wings. 



