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albo maculatis, discoque communi albo : habitat in Sierra Leon 

 Africa." 



rf, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 13. n. 50 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 7. 



n. 56 (1787) ; rf $ , Ent. Syst. iii. pp. 22, 38, n. 65, 112 



(1793). 



6 $ Sierra Leone. (Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan) B.M. 



Haunts " woods and copses," and is sometimes found " in gardens, 

 or settling on flowers growing in open ground near woods : " " has 

 a rapid irregular flight." Trimen, in Hhop. Afr. Austr. 



Mr. Trimen considers P. Merope to be a polymorphic species, of 

 which P. Hippocoon, P. Cenea, P. Niavius (of Cramer), P. Trophonius, 

 &c. are females ; but since we find that in every case the males taken 

 in the same localities with the several females are, to a slight extent, 

 modified in the same direction, and that all the females do not occur 

 together, it seems more strictly correct to consider the several forms 

 representative species or races of P. Merope. The males from South 

 Africa seem to be generally distinguishable by their black tails ; 

 they are always much more strongly marked upon the under surface, 

 have more black banding upon the upper surface, and are more com- 

 pact and shorter in the wing than their West-African representatives : 

 the females, as has already been shown by Mr. Trimen in his ad- 

 mirable paper in the ' Linnean Transactions,' resemble the repre- 

 sentative forms of the Danaince of the same country. Of the Western 

 males the most remarkable is the P. Niavius of Cramer from Ashanti, 

 the black border of the front wings being noticeable for its great 

 width, and the tails of the hind wings for their length. The male 

 from Sierra Leone has nothing remarkable about it ; like its female 

 it is smaller than the Ashanti form, and has comparatively shorter 

 wings ; in other respects the two males are very similar. P. Hip- 

 pocoon (the Ashanti form) is amongst the unpublished drawings of 

 Mr. Jones, late of Chelsea ; P. Brutus is also figured. 



59. Papilio Zenobia. 



Papilio (N. P.) Zenobia, Fabricius, " alis dentatis, nigris, fascia 

 communi alba ; posticis subtus basi flavis, nigro striatis : habitat in 

 Sierra Leon." Stall, Pap. Exot. pi. 26. figs. 2, 26. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 503. n. 255 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 89. n. 

 393 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 48. n. 475 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 

 pp. 37, 115, n. 108, 354 (1793). 

 c? $ , Sierra Leone. (Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan) B.M. 



The type specimen of P. Zenobia is in the Banksian Collection, and 

 is quite distinct from Donovan's species (Nat. Rep. v. pi. 179), the 

 latter being P. cyprceofila, Butler (Ent. Month. Mag. vol. v. p. 60) ; 

 the type is somewhat abnormal, since it agrees with the description 

 " subtus basi flavis, nigro striatis " in having the two basal black 

 spots united into a single streak. The sexes in P. Zenobia are much 

 more alike than in its allies ; the male seems rare, which may per- 

 haps to some extent account for its Acrcea-lilie garb. 



