can 
( (zie) 
Quite independently of this family, all collectors here now 
find the hippocoon form is getting rarer in the wild state, 
while trophonius is not so scarce. The very fine varieties, 
Nos. 36 and 48, with a pattern including elements from all 
the three other forms must now certainly rank as another 
distinct female form, for I have bred two others this year, 
One of these is in the Transvaal Government Museum, Pre- 
toria, and the other Mr. A. D. Millar received in exchange. 
Mr. Millar also captured a damaged specimen in his own 
grounds, and another has been taken by Mr. Haygarth. 
‘Most of the females in this lot seem to me to be rather 
browner than usual on the underside. You will notice that 
two of the trophonius forms resemble the parent in possessing 
the brown suffusion of the white subapical bar of the fore- 
wing.* One cenea is a nice variety with one of the spots on 
the fore-wing brown instead of white.t All the specimens, 
with two or three exceptions, are larger than any I have bred 
from ova before, owing no doubt to the larvae being sleeved 
in the early stages on the living food-plant. I shall always 
adopt this method in future. The parent of this family was 
captured at Pinetown, Natal, and it is interesting that the 
two specimens similar to Nos. 36 and 48 that I bred early in 
the year, were also reared from Pinetown larvae. 
“G, F. Lries.” 
Later in the year 1910 Mr. Leigh succeeded in breeding 
two more examples of the new eight form of female, as stated 
in the following extracts from letters received from him :— 
* Durban, 
“* Nov. 26th, 1910. 
“‘T have bred one more of the fine variety of P. cenea 9 
similar to the two sent you. This one, curiously enough, is also 
from the ova of a trophonius 2 , so all five here bred are from 
that form of parent. 
“T have bred in all about 250 P. dardanus cenea from 
different parents: obtaining only 8 Azppocoon form of the ?, 
about 14 trophonius and 120 cenea, the others being males.” 
* Careful examination of the set specimens reveals this character in all 
the four ¢rophonius offspring, see p. xxxvili.—H. B. P. 
+ This character is also present in other specimens, see pp. XXXVii, 
Xxxvilil.—E. B. P. 
