IS79.J MR. W. L. DISTANT ON AFRICAN PAPILIONES. 64/ 



b. 



length of head and body ... . 7-10 = 180 



tail 6-30 — i6o 



ear -65 = 18 



„ hind foot 1-00 = 26 



Hub. Cape York, Queensland (Damen, Mus. Brit.) 



t i n JeUt ! n K S Celebes Mouse > m J Mus brow,li fr om Duke-of-York 

 Island and M. terras-regime, are all nearly related, although per- 

 fectly distinct; and allied species will doubtless be discovered in 

 other parts of the Eastern Archipelago. 



4. On some African Species of the Lepidopterous Genus 



Papilio. By W. L. Distant. 



[Eeceived June 7, 1879.] 



(Plate XLVII.) 



The following short paper gives some notes taken during an 

 examination recently made of the fine collection of African Papiliones 

 in the collection of Mr. F. J. Horniman. Most of the West- 

 African specimens have been obtained from the Calabar district 

 (Isubu, Mongo-ma-lobah, Calabar) ; and these are peculiarly inter- 

 esting as marking a district of which the insect fauna differs in 

 many slight respects, though seldom specifically, from that of the 

 neighbouring district of the Gold Coast. I have been forced to this 

 conclusion not only from the examination of the Butterflies of this 

 genus, but from having already worked out large collections of 

 Hemiptera from the same locality, and from information supplied 

 me by accomplished Coleopterists as to the insects of their own order 

 rrom bierra Leone the divergence of the Calabar district is much 

 greater, many insects being peculiar to each locality. 



?o P / I 1 L o I °o^ PHIDOCEPHALUS > °erthur, Etudes d'Entomoloeie, 

 p. 13 (1878). ° ' 



M. Oberthur has given the above name to the S.-African form 

 figured by Tnmen as P. menestheus (Khop. Afr.-Austr. t 2 f 1 ) 

 A long series in this collection from both S. and E. Africa shows the 

 characters to be quite constant ; and a ? P. menestheus from the 

 Calabar district agrees with the typical characters of the d of that 

 species as figured by Drury. 



Papilio hornimani, n. sp. (Plate XLVII. figs. 1,2^,3?.) 



d 1 . Wings above black, marginal fringe streaked with pale sulphur- 



ye low. Fore wings with a straight, oblique, transverse, green fascia, 



only divided by the nervules, extending from just inside lower apical 



portion of discoidal cell to about centre of interior margin. Above 



1 P.Z.S. 1877.. p. V23. 



