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of the fascia being within, and half beyond the discoidal 

 cell ; the inner margin of this fascia is straight, but the 

 outer is acutely dentate, the black part of the wing 

 running upwards very slightly along the veins, whilst the 

 middle of each of the dark spaces intervening between 

 the veins is acutely extended much further upwards or 

 backwards with a sharp defined margin. There are a few 

 scattered whitish scales visible at the extremity of the cell 

 of the fore-wings ; on the underside, the second smaller 

 triangular spot of the fascia of the fore-wings is obsolete, 

 and there is a more decided white spot at the extremity 

 of the cell ; the base of the hind- wings is dark orange- 

 buflf, with black stripes between the veins, there being 

 three within the discoidal cell, of which the middle one 

 is abbreviated ; the black mark between the costal and 

 post-costal vein is much the thickest, divided near its 

 base obliquely into two parts ; the cream-white fascia of 

 the hind-wings is rather narrower than above, and there 

 is tendency to develop a spot beyond the fascia in the 

 area between the second post-costal branch and the dis- 

 coidal vein ; the spaces between the veins, beyond the 

 fascia, are much more strongly marked with a black 

 longitudinal stripe than on the upper side. 



I have named this species, which extends from Old 

 Calabar to Ashanti, after the husband of Zenobia, to ex- 

 press its close affinity with the Papilio so named. 



Papilio Zenobia. 



The insect described by Fabricius, in all his works, 

 under the name of P. Zenobia, was stated by him to have 

 been a native of Sierra Leone, and to have been in 

 the collection of Sir J. Banks. In his last work (Ent. 

 Syst. iii. p. 37, repeated on p. 115) he referred the 

 species to Jones, fig. pict. 1, tab. 68. On this drawing, 

 however, Jones refers to the collection of Drury, and not 

 to that of Banks. Donovan (Nat. Repos. 5, pi. 179) 

 figures the same insect as Jones, stating that this is a 

 " splendid Papilio represented in the drawings of Mr. 

 Jones, as referred to by Fabricius. Our figure is, how- 

 ever, from the specimen itself, in the cabinet of Sir J. 

 Banks, Bart., and was copied during the life-time, and 

 by the express permission of its very worthy possessor." 

 On comparing Donovan's and Jones' figures, however, it 



