1894.] MAKICA, SOUTH-EAST AFEICA. 69 



1884, and the other farther to the north-east, a little south of the 

 junction of the Chobe and Zambesi Rivers, in 1889. This is not 

 a variation in the direction of the closely-allied southern form, 

 P. brasidas, Eeld., in which the basal red in question is usually much 

 duller and sometimes obsolescent. 



131. Papilio cokestneus, Bertol. 



Papilio corinneus, Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologna, 1849, p. 9, 

 t. i. figs. 1-3 \ 



Five examples — a male from Umtali, two females from Christ- 

 mas Pass, and a male and female from Mineni Valley. 



132. Papilio demoleus, Linn. 



Papilio demoleus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg. p. 214. n. 33 (1764). 



Eight specimens from Christmas Pass, and two from Mineni 

 Valley. A rather worn female among the former has all the yellow 

 spots deeper and duller in tint than usual, presenting some 

 approach to the specimens sometimes met with in which these 

 markings are of dull ochry-reddish. (See S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 227, 

 footnote.) 



133. Papilio ophidicephalus, Oberth. 



Papilio ophidicephalus, Oberth. Etudes d'Ent. iii. p. 13 (1878). 



The solitary example of this fine Papilio is a female taken at 

 Christmas Pass on 29th Eebruary. Unfortunately it is very much 

 worn and broken, but it displays a remarkable aberration in the 

 form of the common transverse yellow band, which in the fore wing 

 is not only continuous and non-macular throughout but at its 

 superior extremity is narrower than usual and farther from apex, 

 its inner edge being immediately beyond (instead of some little 

 distance from) the end of the discoidal cell 2 ; the oblique marking 

 crossing the cell near its termination it also greatly enlarged and 

 very broad inferiorly. In the hind wings the band is wider than 

 usual in the left wing, and very much wider in the right one. 



Mr. Selous saw two specimens only. 



134. Papilio lt^us, Doubl. 



d . Papilio nireus, Cram, {nee Linn.) Pap. Exot, iv. pi. ccclxxviii. 

 figs. E, G- (1782). 



Papilio lyceus, Doubl. "Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 178 (1845) " ; 

 Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 13. n. 98 (1846). 



Eourteen males and two females from Christmas Pass, and two 



1 The pagination and number of the plate are those of the separate copies 

 of the memoir ; but, from Butler's quotation of " p. 183, t. 9 " for Deilephila 

 ranzani (a moth described and figured on p. 19, t. 1), these appear not to be 

 those of the original publication. Butler also gives the date of publication as 

 1850: the memoir is dated as read on " 25th January, 1849." 



2 It is noteworthy that this costal incurvation is characteristic of the closely 

 allied P. menestheus, Drury, from West Africa, in which, however, the band is 

 very narrow and composed of completely separated spots in the upper parts as 

 well as in the rest. 



