68 ME. B. TEIMEX ON BUTTEEFLIES FEOM [Jan. 16, 



(1871) ; and Afr. Lep. pt. i. p. 4, pi. iv. figs. 5 ( 6 ), 6, 7 ( 2 ) 

 (1873). 



Two examples from Christmas Pass — a male captured on 1st 

 March, and a female on 21st February. The latter has on the 

 upperside the fore wings white and the hind wings pale yellow 

 (rather deeper externally) ; and on the underside the glossy hind 

 wings and apical hind-marginal border of the fore wings so slightly 

 tinged with yellowish as to be almost as white as the disk of the 

 fore wings. 



The female of this species evidently varies much in colouring, 

 the example figured by Ward from Cameroon having the fore wing 

 ochre-yellow on both surfaces while the hind wings are white ; while 

 one from Zambesi in the Hewitson Collection had the upperside 

 yellowish throughout. Just as the female E. argia (Fabr.) mimics 

 Myloihris dgaihina (Cram.), so the female E. thalassina figured by 

 "Ward is a manifest imitator of the female Myl. poppea (Cram.), var. 

 spica, Moschl., with ochre-yellow fore wings, while theManica female 

 of E. thalassina strongly resembles the female Myl. trimenia, Butl. 1 



Manica is the most southern station known to me for this 

 species. Mr. Selous noticed a good many males coursing rapidly 

 along a thickly-wooded hillside, but only captured one. 



Genus Callideyas, Boisd. 



129. Callideyas floeella (Fabr.). 



2 . Papilio florella, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 479. n. 159 (1775). 



Five males and five females from Christmas Pass and one 

 female from Mineni Valley ; the last-named example was taken on 

 16th March, but all the others from 12th to 24th February. All 

 the males but one are strongly freckled on the underside, and all 

 the females are of the yellow form. The male that differs from 

 the rest has the underside not only more faintly freckled but also 

 of a greener tint. 



Subfamily Papilioxin^e. 



Genus Papilio, Linn. 



130. Papilio leoxidas, Fabr. 



Papilio similis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. ix. figs. B, C (1779). 



Papilio leonidMS, Fabr. Ent. Syst. hi. 1, p. 35. n. 103 (1793). 



The only example is a male, taken in Mineni Valley on 12th 

 March. It agrees pretty closely with ordinary West-Coast speci- 

 mens except that the tint of the greenish spots is yellower, and 

 that the basal red stain on the underside of both fore and hind 

 wings is considerably brighter and more extended. This latter 

 difference also appears in two other males taken by Mr. Selous — 

 one in the desert country south of the Mababe Biver in August 



1 A close mimirker of 3/. trimenia is Picris ("Beknois")lasti,Tl. G. Smith, 

 from Mombasa. M. poppea is similarly very ( exactly copied by Papilio rhodope, 

 Fabr., and M. agathina by P. thysa, Hopff. 



