306 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORV. 



[LXXV.] PharmacophaguS) Haase. I propose to restrict this 

 generic name, used by Haase in a very wide sense, to P. 

 anterior (Drury), the largest and handsomest Butterfly found in 

 Madagascar. It measures six or seven inches across the wings ; 

 the fore-wings are long, with the costa not much arched, the tip 

 rounded off, and the hind-margin very oblique, and slightly 

 concave. The hind-wings are half as long again as broad, 

 and very strongly scalloped, with a long, broad, slightly 

 spatulate tail. The antennae have a stout but gradually-formed 

 club. The thorax and antennae are black above, the head 

 and most of the under surface of the body red ; the abdomen 

 red and white. The wings are black, the fore-wings with 

 three large pure white spots in the cell, and two rows of large 

 white spots on the disc. On the hind wings there are two large 

 white spots in the cell, two small ones above, and a curved 

 row of small ones below ; there is also a row of large red sub- 

 marginal lunules running from the tip to the anal angle ; and 

 on the inner-mnrgin, opposite the end of the abdomen, 

 which only extends two-thirds of the length of the hind-wings, 

 is a red spot, marked above and below with white. 



Among the recently discovered species, which were un- 

 known to Felder, Papilio laglaizii, Depuiset, from New 

 Guinea and the Aru Islands, deserves special mention from 

 its curious resemblance to Alcidis metaurus (Hopffer), a Moth 

 belonging to the Nyctahmoniidce. It measures about 3^ 

 inches across the wings, which are greenish-black, with a pale 

 bluish-green band on all the wings, much wider on the hind- 

 wings than on the fore-wings. The fore-wings have a short 

 subapical band of the same colour, and on the hind-wings, 

 the incisions and the short tail are white. 



