( 527 ) 



B. ilithi/ia f. ilithyia, — Anrivillins says that, the black markings are smaller in 

 polinice, — and has a pale underside to the hiudwing. The African and Indian 

 specimens are identical, taken as a whole. 



8 cJ(?. 9 ? ? belonging to: 



f. polinice from: Lake Haramaja, north of Harar, 16. & 17. iii. Oi) ; Alesa, 

 Kotscha, 24. ii. 01. 



f. ilithijia (or being intermediate) from : Bio Caboba, north of Harar, 18. ii. 00; 

 Lake Haramaja, 16. iii. 00 ; Gara Mulata, near Harar, 27. & 29. iii. 00 ; Harar, 2. & 

 20. iv. 00 ; Abd-el-Kadr, 11. & 14. v. 00 ; Djabdjabdu, 24. v. 00 ; Alesa, Kotscha, 

 24. ii. 01. 



39. Byblia anvatara. 



Pajjilio Nyiiiphulis Phalemtus ilil!ii/a(i), Cramer (noii Drury, 177S), Pap. Ex. iii. p. 35. 37. t. 213. 



f . A. B ; t. 214. f. c. D (1779) (Sierra Leone). 

 Papilio goelzins Herbst, I.e. p. 193. t. 258. f. 3. 4 (1798) (partim). 



Hypanis corn, Lucas (non Feisthamel, 1850), in Chenu, Enc. Ilixt. Nut., Pap. i. f. 516 (1853). 

 Hypanis aumtara Boisduval, Faune Madag. Bourh. p. 66. t. 7. f. 5 (1833) (Madag.). 

 Byblia goetzias, AuriTillius, I.e. p. 158. n. 2 (1899). 



Butler and Aurivilliu.s apply the name goetzitis (= gutzias) to this species. 

 That is surely incorrect. Herbst, I.e., proposed the name goetziux merely to 

 supplant the name polinice, which was preoccupied in Papilio. Therefore goetziiis 

 cannot be applied to another species than polinice. Further, Herbst says that the 

 ? (f. 3. 4) appears to him to belong rather to goetzim than to ilithyia, proceeds 

 to point out differences between this ? and the c?, and finally gives as habitat 

 Coromandel, where there occurs only the insect to which his figures 1 and 2 

 belong, figures 3 and 4 representing the African sjjecies. It is quite plain that 

 this ? would not be the type of the name goetziiis, even if Herbst had not 

 expressly stated that he renamed (Cramer's polinice (or polenice as Herbst spells 

 the name). Since armitara i.s the name ne.\t in priority applied to a portion of the 

 present species, it is to be adopted as the name for the entire species. 



There are four subspecies, three of which occur in a form with a dark underside 

 to the hindwing and another form with a light underside. 



a. B. anvatara anvatara. 



Hypan'tn anvatara Boisduval, I.e. 



HyjMiiis ililliyia var. auvaliira, Mabille, in Grand., Hist. Mat. Mail., Lfji. t. 17. f. 11. 12 (1885-87). 



Byblia guelzitts var. anratiira, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 159 (1899). 



The two forms of this subspecies are : 



B. anv. anv. f. anvatara, with a light underside to the hindwing ; and 



B. anc. alio. f. seriata nov., with the underside of the hindwing tawny chestnut, 

 marked with three rows of creamy-white spots. In this form the apex of the 

 forewing below bears also a row of creamy-white spots. 



Tj/pe from Morondawa, Madagascar. 



0. B. anvatara boydi. 



Byblia cora, Butler (non Feisthamel, 1850), Pruc. Zmil. Soc. Lond. p. 177. t. 18. f. 4 (1881) 



(Sokolra). 

 Byldia biiydi Uixey, ibid. p. 375. t. 30. f. 1. 2 (1898) (Sokotra), 



Only the form with the dark underside to the hindwing is known. 



