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rapid flight, soaring over the highest forest trees; it settles fre- 

 quently on flowers, especially Plumbago capensis. 



There is one mutilated specimen of P. Nireus in the Banksian 

 Collection ; the male is figured by Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 378. 

 figs. F, G (1782). 



56. Papilio Phorbanla. 



c? . Papilio (E. T.) Phorbanta, Linnceus, " alis caudatis, nigris, 

 caeruleo maculatis ; posticarum fascia interrupta, subtus alba : ha- 

 bitat in Caienna." 



S . Papilio (E. T.) Manlius, Fabricius, " alis dentatis, caudatis, 

 atris, viridi maculatis ; posticis subtus striga macularum albarum : 

 habitat in Isle de France." 



$ . Papilio (E. T.) Grachus, Fabricius, " alis dentato-caudatis, 

 atris, viridi maculatis ; posticis subtus fascia sesquialtera glauca : 

 habitat in Isle de France." 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 445. n. 11 (1775); Sp. Ins. p. 4. n. 14 

 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 2. n. 14 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 6. 

 n. 17 (1793) ; Ent. Syst. suppl. p. 422. n. 30, 31 (1798). 



rf , Mauritius. (From Dr. Beke, 1857) B.M. 



P. Phorbanta is figured by Jablonsky (Natursyst. Schmett. i. pi. 12. 

 fig. 3 : 1783) ; the band of the under surface is of a dead golden 

 colour, not white. 



57. Papilio Phorcas. 



<$. Papilio (E. A.) Doreus, Fabricius [P. Phorcas, Cramer], " alis 

 dentatis, fascia supra viridi, subtus alba : habitat in Sierra Leon." 

 Pap. Exot. i. pi. 2. figs. B, C (1775). 



$ . Papilio (E. A.) Thersander, Fabricius, " alis obtuse caudatis, 

 fuscis ; fascia strigisque macularibus flavis ; posticis subtus, disco 

 brunneo nigro lineato : habitat in Sierra Leon." Westwood, Arc. 

 E>it. i. pi. 38. figs. 1, 2 (1842). 



rf , Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 457. n. 62 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 18. 

 n. 72 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 10. n. 83 (1787); rf $ , Ent. 

 Syst. iii. pp. 32, 68, n. 93, 212 (1793). 



rf $ , Sierra Leone. ( tf Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan) 



B.M. 



The type of P. Doreus is in the Banksian Collection ; Cramer's 

 figure and description published during the same year, with the 

 Fabrician diagnosis, have perhaps the greater claim to priority. 



58. Papilio Brutus. 



c? . Papilio (E. A.) Brutus, Fabricius, " alis caudatis, albis, limbo 

 nigro, posticis subtus fascia fusca : habitat in Africa aequinoctiali." 

 P. Meropc (part,), Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 378. figs. D, E (1782). 



$ . Papilio (E. A.) Hippocoon, Fabricius, " alis dentatis, nigris, 



