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The first pair have two bands of a darker brown in the discoidal 

 cell ; in one specimen, a female, these bands are margined with pale 

 ochrey ; there are five red irregular spots between the discoidal cell 

 and the posterior margin, the one nearest the tip smallest ; in one 

 specimen, a male, almost obsolete ; in the female this terminal spot 

 is larger : the last of the spots linear and close to the posterior mar- 

 gin ; the penultimate notched towards the discoidal cell, and abruptly- 

 straight behind ; in the female the margins of these spots are yel- 

 lowish. 



The second pair of wings have their general upper surface red ; 

 black at the base, emitting lines along the nervures, with two or three 

 irregular black spots in the middle and along the hinder margin of 

 the red ; the posterior margin is brownish black, narrowest inside, 

 with two or three red spots and indications of red streaks. In two 

 specimens, one of them a female, some of these cells are yellowish ; 

 in one male they are only margined with yellowish. 



The under side of the first pair of wings resembles in colour the 

 upper side, but is paler ; the under side of the second pair is mixed 

 with red, greenish and pinkish tints, varying according to the position 

 they are examined in — the last-mentioned colour prevails ; on the 

 surface there are at least twelve deep black spots of different sizes ; 

 the posterior margin is of a faint brown with six or seven pale, trans- 

 versely elongated spots on its edge, and some indistinct red spots 

 before them. The head is black, spotted with white above ; cheeks 

 and face yellowish with a black line down the middle : the thorax 

 is brownish black spotted with whitish, especially on the sides be- 

 neath the wings : abdomen brown, sides spotted with yellowish, be- 

 neath yellowish barred with brown, the bars in the middle of the belly 

 dilated into spots ; femora dark ; tibiae and tarsi palish. Extent of 

 w'ings of the smallest male specimen (which is more elongated and has 

 the first pair of wings slightly sinuated behind) nearly three inches ; 

 of the largest, a female, rather more than three inches and a half. 



This veiy distinct species of Mrican butterfly is of the same 

 form as the Papiliones Latreillianus, Tynderaus and Leonidas, 

 three well-known W. African insects in Boisduvars loth group 

 (Lep. i. p. 239). To the scarce Papilio Antimachus figured by 

 Drury, it has, at first sight, a curious relationship, as was pointed 

 out to me by Mr. E. Doubleday. To him I am indebted for the 

 opportunity of paying a debt I have long owed* to the memory 

 of Mr. Ridley, a gentleman in the W. African Coast Service, 

 whose love for om- favourite science was displayed by a collec- 

 tion he made near the fort of Accra and sent to this country. 

 He gave great promise of excelling in entomology, and fell a 

 victim to the climate of W. Africa. In a small collection shown 

 me by his friend Mr. Humphreys, I had assigned bis name to a 

 black and white Papilio since described by Mr. Westwood. I 

 hope that as this species does not occur, as far as I am aware, in 



* See Entomologist for July 1841, p. 136. 



