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Papilio Odenatus* nov. sub-sp. PI. III. figs. 3, 4. 



P. alls anticis brevioribus, posticis ecaudatis, sin ua tie, 

 fusco-nigricantibus, fascia maculari communis albida^ in 

 alis anticis fere ad apicem extensa, in posticis subangusta ; 

 subtus fusca, fascia ut supra, at in anticis abbreviata, 

 macula alba ad apicem cellulse discoidalis alteraque ovata 

 subapicali; posticis basi fulvis, nigro- stria tis, maculisquo 

 duabus subcostalibus nigris, pone fasciam nigro striatis, 

 sinubus marginalibus vix albo-notatis. 



Expans. alar, antic, unc. 4. 



Hah. — Old Calabar, Muss. Hopeiano Oxonise ; Ashantee 

 in Mus. Brit. 



This species is intermediate between the P. Zenobia, 

 of Fabricius, as figured by Donovan (P. Gyproeofila, of 

 Butler), and P. Messalina, Stoll., agreeing with the former 

 in the narrowness and more decidedly marked central 

 fascia of the" hind-wings, but differing from it in the 

 almost total obliteration of the white edges to the mar- 

 ginal incisures of the wings, in which latter respect, as 

 well as in the broken, macular fascia of the fore-wings 

 beneath, it more nearly agrees with Messalina, from 

 which, however, it diSers in the narrow fascia of the 

 hind- wings. 



The fore-wings are black-brown, with very minute 

 white incisures, and the hind- wings are similarly coloured, 

 with the incisures distinct, but narrowly white ; all the 

 wings are traversed by a cream-coloured fascia, which is 

 macular in the fore-wings, running from rather beyond 

 the middle of the hinder margin towards the apex, and 

 not recurved towards the costa, as in P. Gyproeofila ; it 

 consists, in the fore-wings, of eight spots, of which the 

 first nearest the apex of the wings is of moderate size, 

 elongate-oval, and bifid at its apex, and placed about 

 half-way between the cell and the apex ; the second is 

 much smaller elongate- triangular ; the third, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth are of nearly equal size, each rounded within 

 and pointed without; the seventh is the largest, and 

 divided in two by the false fold, and the eighth is narrow, 

 and rests on the hinder margin ; the fascia in the hind- 

 wings is entire, running entirely across the wing, half 



* I have named this species after the husband of Zcnohia. 



