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rare, and I have seen but few examples. The male is somewhat yellower, and has a broader 

 black border continued in the hind- wing. The species occurs in the Gaboon country. 



EPITOLA HONORIUS. 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. (3), i, p. 151 (1793)- 

 Hewitson, 111. D. Lep., p. 17, pi. la, ff. 3-5 (1878). 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 291 (1898). 



The Acraeine appearance of the underside of this beautiful Lycaenid is almost startling. 

 The male is about inches in expanse and has the fore-wings black with a glittering blue 

 suffusion extending from the base along the cell and from the median nearly to the margin . 

 There is a line of blue along the anterior side of the costal, bending obliquely across the wing 

 from a point midway between the end of the cell and the apex, and reaching the lower radial. 

 The space between this and the end of the cell is occupied by a dull area forming what 

 appears to be a sexual brand. The hind-wings are almost entirely black, but dusted with 

 blue, broadly on the costa and inner-margin, and narrowly on the hind-margin. On the 

 underside the fore-wing is sepia-brown basally. There is a line of indistinct white spots 

 crossing obliquely from half-way between the end of the cell and the apex, to the inner angle. 

 Apex dull ochreous. A slight dusting of metallic blue on the discal area. Orange-ochreous 

 at base above the costal. Hind-wing brownish-ochreous with very indistinct discal narrow 

 white bar, beginning about middle of costa and bent suddenly outwards at the second median, 

 along which it runs to the margin. Base suffused with deep orange-ochreous, and having 

 eleven small but well defined black spots. The hind-margin of the fore-wing is concave, 

 giving the apex a slightly hooked appearance. The female is quite different on the upper- 

 side. The fore-wing is well rounded. The ground-colour is dark sepia-brown, and there 

 is a broad white oblique discal band reaching to the hind-angle. Below the median is a 

 metallic blue streak. The hind-wing is rather paler brown with a white central patch suffused 

 with blue basally and towards the inner-margin. The underside resembles that of the male, 

 except that the white band in the fore-wing is reproduced. 



It is remarkable that this butterfly should have developed such perfect Acraeine mimicry 

 on the underside, retaining on the upperside the usual Lycaenid appearance. I have only seen 

 one other instance of a similar modification, viz. in Hewitsonia hoisduvali, Hew., where the 

 hind- wing underside is somewhat similarly marked, though the ground-colour is much paler, 



PAPILIO DARDANUS AND SUBSPECIES. 

 PAPILIO HUMBLOTI. 



Oberthiir, Ann. Ent. Soc. France (6), 8 Bull., p. 40 (1888). 



— Etud. d'Ent., xiii, p. 9, pi. i, ff. i, 2 (1890). 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 466 (1898). 



PAPILIO MERIONES. 



Felder, Reise Nov., Lep., p. 95 (1865). 

 Trimen, Trans. Linn. Soc, xxvi, pi. 42, f. i (1869). 

 Boisduval {bruius), Faune. Mad., p. 12 (1833). 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 466 (1898). 



PAPILIO ANTINORII. 



Oberthiir, Ann. Mus. Genov., xviii, p. 711, pi. 9, f. 4 (1883). 

 Kheil (var. 5 niavioides) , Iris, iii, p. 335, f. i (i8go). 



— (var. $ ruspinae), Iris, iii. p. 335, f. 2 (1890). 

 Aurivillius, Rhop. Aeth., p. 464 (1898). 



Rothschild and Jordan {dardanus antinorii), Novit. Zool., xii, p. 187 (1905). 



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