PAPILIONID,. 19 



This fine Butterfly is a very common species ; it flies strongly, but does 

 not attain the elevation that P. Nirem and Merope commonly do. The 

 attractive Plumbago lured Demoleus into the kloof-woods at Plettenberg 

 Bay, when I was collecting there in February, 1859; but it is a rare visitor 

 in woods generally. 



P. Demoleus strikingly resembles an Indian species, P. Erithonius, Cram., 

 but appears to be distinct from it. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. Coll. mini. 

 Colesberg (Coll. D. Arnot). 

 Cape. Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 D'Urban, Natal (R. C. Jones). 

 Natal, Sierra Leone, Ashanti. Coll. Brit. Mus. 

 " Madagascar (Ste. Marie)." Boisd. 



" Port Elizabeth. Graham's Town. King William's Town 

 (very abundant)." W. S. M. D'Urban, in litt. 

 Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bowker). 



7. Papilio Zenobius. 



Papilio Zenobius, Fab., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 37, n. 108. 

 Godt., JEnc. Meth., IX, p. 74, n. 140. 



Papilio Zenobia, Don., Nat. Repos., V, pi. 179. 



Papilio Zenobius, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., I, p. 369, n. 213. 

 Voy. de Deleg., p. 586. 



C/ienu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pup., pi. 2, 



[f. 2. 



Papilio Zenobia, G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus., I, 



[p. 70, n. 317. 



Expands 4 in. 4 in. 1 lin. 



Brown-black, with creamy -white bands and spots. Fore- 

 wing : immediately beyond cell commences a rather broad 

 transverse stripe reaching to a little beyond middle of inner- 

 margin, acutely dentate on outer edge, on inner edge very 

 acutely dentate in , only slightly so in ? ; on hind-margin 

 six spots between nervules. Hind-wing : median stripe of 

 fore-wing continued by an externally denticulate, internally 

 almost straight-edged, band to middle of inner-margin ; on 

 hind-margin 3 a row of seven yellowish spots between nervules, 

 so deeply intersecting the margin as to give the impression of 

 a chequered hind-marginal band. UNDER-SIDE. Dull brown ; 

 pale markings similar to upper-side. Fore-wing : apex 

 tinged with ochreous, black streaks between nervules from 

 hind-margin. Hind-wing : basal portion ochreous, with 

 longitudinal black streaks between nervules ; three such 

 streaks in discoidal cell ; nervules beyond white stripe darker 

 than ground colour, between them long black streaks reach- 

 ing from band to hind-marginal spots. 



