20 RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



" Country of the Amazulus." Boisd, (App. to Voy. de 

 Deleg). 



West Africa. Ashanti. Coll. Brit. Mus. 



8. Papilio Cenea. 



Papilio Cenea, Stall, Suppl. Cram., pi. 29, f. 1. 



Danais Rechila, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 183, n. 24. 



? . Papilio Trophonius, Westw., Arc. Ent., I, pi. 39, f. 1,2. 



Papilio Cenea, G. R. Gray, Cat, Lep. Brit. Mus., p. 70, 



[n. 322. 



Expands 3 in. 8 lin. 4 in. 3 lin. 



$. Sooty -black, with yellow -ochreous spots. For owing : 

 in discoidal cell, near its extremity, an oblique, outwardly 

 pointing, elongate, narrow marking ; beyond cell, from costa, 

 a transverse curved row of four spots, the lower one, be- 

 ta een second and third median nervules, large, elongate- 

 ovate ; an ovate, yellowish-white spot at apex ; two or three 

 pale ochreous spots on hind-margin, between first median ner- 

 vule and sub-median nervure. Hind-wing: a very broad, 

 ochreous, transverse band, its inner edge not far from base, 

 its outer edge which is convex and slightly crenelated 

 scarcely extending beyond middle ; near hind-margin a row 

 of twelve rather small spots arranged in pairs between ner- 

 vules, some of which spots are often obliterated. UNDER- 

 SIDE. Pale spots similarly arranged. Fore-wing : apical por- 

 tion of wing broadly coloured with ochreous-brown, narrowing 

 towards anal angle ; all the spots, except the largest, white. 

 Hind-wing : ground-colour the same ochreous-brown as apex 

 of fore-wing ; three brown, longitudinal streaks in discoidal 

 cell ; spots along hind-margin white, in pairs, constantly 

 fourteen in number. Fringes very narrow, white in the scal- 

 loped spaces between nervules ; most observable in hind-wing. 

 $ . Differs greatly from $ . Fore-wing : oblique mark 

 in discoidal cell larger, pure white ; beyond cell all the spots 

 white ; a large, sub-ovate, conspicuous white patch takes the 

 place of the two central spots of the four that form a curved 

 row in $ ; the large fourth spot* as it were extended into a 

 large, pale .brick-red semicircle, the base of which occupies all 

 but the outer tip of inner-margin, and the upper edge en- 

 trenches on a portion of discoidal cell. Hind-wing : all of 

 the same brick-red tint, except a broad black band on hind- 

 margin, which contains from eleven to fourteen white spots 

 (some of which are red- tinged) arranged in pairs. UNDER- 

 SIDE : similar to upper-side, though slightly paler. Apex 

 of fore-wing and hind-marginal band of hind-wing of the same 

 ochreous-brown as in $ . 



