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White markings similar ; costa and apex of fore-wing and 

 hind-margin of hind-wing ochre-yellow. Fore-wing : base 

 dull soft red to nearly middle of discoidal cell, the colour 

 gradually disappearing along subcostal nervure to extremity 

 of cell. Hind-wing : base of the same red as in fore-wing, 

 gradually fading into an ochreous band running between me- 

 dian and submedian nervures as far as yellow spot ; inner edge 

 of yellow hind -marginal band blackish, containing, between 

 discoidal and third median nervules, three elongate yellowish- 

 white spots within the inner row of marginal spots ; spots of 

 outer row edged with blackish ; fringe white between 

 nervules. 



In the West African specimens in the British Museum, two of the spots 

 in discoidal cell of forewing are united to the large white space below 

 median nervure ; but this difference is surely not sufficiently important to 

 warrant the separation of the South African specimens as a distinct species 

 from Pylades. A careful examination of the specimens in the British 

 Museum thoroughly convinced me of the identity of species in examples 

 from various parts of Africa. 



Natal. Coll. mihi and S. A. Mus. 



Natal. West Africa. Sierra Leone. Congo. Brit. Mus. 



f 11. Papilio Messalina. 



Papilio Messalina, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. Pap. Exot., pi. 26, 



[f. 2, 2 b. 

 ,, Westw., Arc. Ent., I, p. 151. 



Expands 4 in. 



Black ; with a broad, creamy, yellowish-white, transverse 

 band common to both wings, fore-wing : near apex, im- 

 mediately above first discoidal nervule, an elongate-ovate 

 creamy-white spot ; the transverse band commences below 

 this spot, beyond middle, on second discoidal nervule, ex- 

 tending to middle of inner-margin, its external edge con- 

 siderably indented on nervules by the ground-colour ; fringe 

 white, black-spotted in indentations of margin. Hind-wing : 

 transverse band broader than in fore-wing, and nearer to base, 

 radiating on black outwardly; fringe as in fore-wing. UN- 

 DER-SIDE. Bronzed-brown ; transverse band whiter than on 

 upper-side, in hind-wing much narrower. Fore-wing : five 

 longitudinal black streaks in discoidal cell ; apical white 

 spot as on upper-side ; transverse band not so sharply dentate 

 outwardly ; from hind-margin, between each two nervules, 

 a broad, longitudinal black streak as far as white band the 

 streak between apical spot and commencement of band 

 reaching to extremity of cell ; fringe varied white and brown. 

 Hind-wing : basal portion reddish-ochreous, containing two 

 black spots between costal and subcostal nervures ; four 



