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the first, proximal, triangular, resembling a large tooth. The harpe is individually 

 variahle, there being often several small aeiite teeth at the edges of the processes. 



Jlab. Sierra Leone to Uganda. 



In the Tring Museum 24 cJ cf from : Sierra Leone {ti/pe) ; Accra, Gold Coast ; 

 Akassa, Niger; Kassai R., Congo Free State; Bumba, Congo Free State, 

 June liith, 1809 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Upoto, Congo ; Fajao, Unyoro, July 1897 (Dr. 

 Ansorge); Msarosaro, Uganda, December 28th, 1896 (Dr. Ansorge). 



This species is mixed up in collections with bromitts and nireus. We have 

 as yet no female. 



3. Papilio bromius cyclopis subsp. uov. 



Papilio i,«emloiureu«, var.t, Butler {mn Felder, 1805), Proc. Zool. Sue. Land. p. 033. n. 15 



(18'J5) (Kasangu Mt.). 

 Papilio jj>:eml,mireu^, id., /.f. p. 839. n. 104 (1896) ; id., Ann. Mag. N. H. (6). xviii. p. 76. n. 28 



(1896). 

 (J. This insect has nothing to do with F. nireu.i pseudonireus, which is 

 confined to Somaliland and Abyssinia, bat it resembles it a little in the band 

 of the forewing being reduced. P. bromius cyclopis differs from brom. brontes 

 in the blue band of the upperside being much narrower, the reduction being 

 most pronounced in the costal region of the forewing. The blue spots at the 

 upper angle of the cell of the forewing reduced to dots ; spot in cell near lower 

 angle short and narrow ; no dot in angle of cellule R'— R- ; patch M' -M- only 

 4 mm. long. Extreme base of cellule M'— M^ of hindwing black, blue streak 

 M2_(SMi) not reaching cell ; blue spots R'— R^ very small, not touching one 

 another; blue postdiscal spots R-— R' and M'— M- not completely divided. 

 Postdiscal spots of underside of hindwing white, not divided at the iuternervular 



folds. 



Clasping organs as in P. bromius brontes and brom. bromius. 



? . Not known to us. 



Hab. Kasungu Mt., Nyika, Nyassaland, 7450 ft. (R. Crawshay). 



4. Papilio phorcas nyikanus subsp. nov. 



Papilio plwrcas, Butler, Proc. Zool. Hoc. Land. 1890. p. 839. n. 105 (1897). 



S. Similar to P. phorcas ansorgei from British East Africa, the green spot 

 SC^^— R' of the ujiperside of the forewing much smaller, this spot being smaller 

 than the triangular spot SC^— SC*'^ (in both sexes according to Butler), spot 

 Hi_R2 present but small ; no submarginal spots on the forewing above, except 

 the subapical one, but a series of prominent submarginal spots on the hindwing. 

 Distal marginal area of the underside deeper brown than in ansorgei and the 

 iuternervular black discal streaks of the hindwing heavier. Harpe similar to 

 that of ansorgei, but with less teeth. 



Hab. Kasunga Mts., Nyika, Nyassaland, March 1896 (Crawshay). 



The four subspecies of P. phorcas fall into two groups according to the 

 development of the sexual armature. The subspecies P. ph. phorcas inhabiting 

 the North-Western district, from Sierra Leoue to the Niger, has a liarpe which 

 is produced at the apex into an acute spiuelikc process. There is, moreover, 

 generally one spinelike tooth farther proximal, rarely several teeth. In the 

 other three subspecies— 7^. ph. congoanus from Kameruu, Congo, Uganda, P. ph. 



