100 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 20, 



Subfamily Papilionin^. 

 Genus Papilio, Linn. 



101. Papilio antheus, Cram. 



Papilio antheus, Cram. Pap. Esot. iii. pi. ccxxxiv. ff. B, C 

 (1771^). 



Ehanda (August-September). Fifteen male examples. 



These specimens, except in not being so large, appear to approach 

 the variety from Lake Nyanza separated by Mr. Butler (Ann. & 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. .5th ser. xii. p. 106, 1883) as P. lurlinus, having 

 most of the pale green markings (especially the discocellular waved 

 strise of the fore wings) wider than usual, and the striae just referred 

 to (particularly the outermost of them) more strongly bisinuated. 



102. Papilio corinneus, Bertol. 



Papilio corinneus, Bertol. " Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologn. 1849, p. 9, 

 t. i. ff. 1-3." 



Omrora (August). Nine male specimens. 



Considerably smaller than usual, expanding from 2 in. 6 lin. to 

 3 in. One specimen is a notable aberration in colouring, the basal 

 red in both fore and hind wings on the underside being entirely 

 absent, and replaced by the ochre-yellow of the ground-colour. 



103. Papilio morania. (Plate IX. fig. 21, c? .) 



Papilio morania, Angas, Kafirs. lUustr. pi. xxx, f. 1 (1849). 



Omrora (August). Eighteen male examples. 



These specimens, like those of P. corinneus, are much below the 

 usual size, expanding from 2 in. 4| lin. to 6 lin. only. They all 

 belong to a variety approaching P. corinneus in the following parti- 

 culars, viz. : in the fore wings the terminal discocellular white 

 marking is unequally divided by a curved oblique black streak, and 

 the external superior projection of the large white patch is consider- 

 able ; and in the hind wings the white field is more restricted than 

 in ordinary morania, having a somewhat broader hind marginal 

 black border. Nine of the specimens want the small subbasal disco- 

 cellular white spot in the fore wings, and two others have it very 

 ■faintly expressed ; whereas in typical morania this spot is better 

 developed than in corinneus ^. 



When compared with the typical P. morania of the south-eastern 

 coast, this Omrora variety is most interesting, as possibly indicating 

 one of the stages in the differentiation of the species from P. corin- 

 neus, which is itself so near an ally of the more northern P. pyludes, 

 Fabr. 



^ In connection with these Omrora specimens, which, though on the whole 

 nearer to P. morania, exliibit decided variation in the direction of P. corinneus, 

 I note here, on the other hand, a male example of the latter (sent to me from 

 Malvern, Natal, by Mr. Cecil N. Barker) which approaches P. morania in tbe 

 markings of the underside of the hind wings, where tbe four white spots of tbe 

 submarginal series are nearer to the white field than usual, and are also 

 blackish-edged internally, and tbe inner marginal red is much fninter towards 

 its extremity. 



