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ftontia 1 are the only genera exclusively African ; but the species of other 

 genera are very numerous, especially in the group of white butterflies 

 with orange tips to their fore wings. The family PapilioniDjE is very 

 widely distributed over all the warmer regions of the globe ; and 

 although no peculiar genus belonging to the family is found in 

 Africa, there are several very interesting groups of species, such as 

 Papilio Nireus and its allies, with black wings spotted or banded with 

 green. The Merope group, the males of which are cream-coloured, 

 spotted with black and furnished with tails, is remarkable for having 

 tailless females in West and South Africa, so much unlike their 

 partners as to have been described as several distinct species ; whereas 

 in Madagascar the females of this group can scarcely be distinguished 

 either in form or colour from the males. 2 Lastly, of the HESPERHD/E, 

 distributed all over the globe, thirteen of the genera contain species 

 which are natives of Africa, three of them being peculiar to that region 

 — namely, Abantis from Mozambique, Ceratrichia from Western Africa, 

 and Caprona from Southern Africa. 



LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA. 



Family Papilionid^e. 



Genus Papilio (auctt.) 



i. (i) PAPILIO DEMOLEUS, Linnaeus ; Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr., p. 17. 



Papilio Demodocus, Esper, Ausl. Schmett., p. 205, pi. 51, f. 1. 



Ranges from Western Tropical Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. 



Genus Callidryas, Boisduval. 

 Callidryas (char, emend.), Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. 

 Lep., p. 66. Catopsilia (Hiibner), W. F. Kirby, Syn. Cat., 

 p. 481 (haud recte). 

 2. (1) Callidryas Swainsonii, Westwood in Oates's Matabele Land, 

 ed. 1, App. p. 335 (1881). 

 Colzas Pyrene, Swainson, Zool. 111., i. pi. 51 (not of Lin- 

 naeus, which is an Indian species, belonging to the genus 

 Thestias, Boisduval.) 

 Callidryas Pyrene, Butler, Lep. Exot, p. 44, pi. 16, f. 8-10. 

 Callidryas Florella, Boisduval ; Trimen, /. c. p. 68 ; but not 

 of Fabricius nor Donovan, Nat. Repos., iii. pi. 90. 

 Many individuals of this species were taken at the Motlautsi River, 

 varying in having the black spot of the disk of the fore wings, and 

 the orange spots on the under side of the hind wings. A specimen 

 from Guinea, received by Mr. Hope from Mr. Westermann of Copen- 

 hagen as the Florella, Fabricius, is identical with the South African 

 specimens of Swainson's species. The type specimen described by 

 Fabricius, drawn by Jones (Icones, ii., Dan. Cand. pi. 5, f. 3, 4), 



1 More recently regarded as a moth. 



2 M. Oberthur has recently described an Abyssinian insect of the Merope form with sexes 

 similar, as in Madagascar, which he calls Papilio A ntinorii. 



