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SOUTH-AFRICA]^ BUTTERFLIES. 
green ; a well-defined, raised, pale-yellow line curving along each side ! 
from apex of dorso-thoracic peak, and meeting at anal extremity. On 
back a similar thinner line, starting from same peak (but near its 
base), almost immediately branches into two gently divergent lines, 
which from third abdominal segment gradually converge, to meet again 
at anal extremity. Between these kteral and dorsal lines, on each 
side a series of very thin V-like yellow marks (with the angles directed ! 
backward), and all truncated by the segmental incisions. On third 
abdominal (seventh) segment, a small ferruginous spot in a duh- 
creamy ring adjoins each dorsal line on its inner side about the 
middle. About midway between the lateral line and the cephalic pro- 
minence on each side, a somewhat sinuous, less distinct, pale-yellow 
line, which on wing-cover marks position of median nervure, and emits, 
thin indications of positions of nervules. In addition to these princi- 
pal pale-yellow markings, there are numerous minor reticulations and 
dottings of the same colour distributed over the surface. Frontal line 
of dorso-thoracic peak, from its apex to head, minutely roughened, and 
coloured dull-ferruginous, with a few creamy specks. 
The larva is described from four Natalian specimens (one of an 
early moult) forwarded by Colonel Bowker in JSTovember 1878. I did 
not rear the perfect insect from them, but two of them became pupae 
quite like those of Morania ; and coloured drawings (accompanied by 
the wings of that species) lent me by Mrs. Monteiro in 1883 (made 
from Delagoa Bay larv?e), agreed closely with my description above 
given.'^ 
Of the pupa, I received from Colonel Bowker thirteen living speci- 
mens, and obtained the imago from each one, ten butterflies appearing 
between 24th November and 1 6th December 1878. Of the remain- 
ing three, two did not make their appearance before a year afterwards. 
(14th November and 9th December 1879), and the last not until 14th 
March 1880. Colonel Bowker noted the date of pupation in five 
instances, so that I can record the normal duration of the chrysalis 
state in those few cases as varying from twelve to sixteen days. It is 
noticeable that in outline this pupa does not simulate a complete leaf 
so well as that of P. Brasidas, but the anterior extremity, with the 
concave, roughened, and ferruginous-tinted line from the tip of the. 
thoracic peak to the head, gives precisely the effect of the irregular 
edge of a leaf gnawed and partly eaten aw^ay by insects. The under 
side of the mid-rib of a leaf is usually the situation of the suspended 
^ In 1 886 Mrs. Monteiro succeeded in taking alive to England various pupae of Dela- 
goan Papiliones, and wrote to me in November of that year that P. Morania was appear- 
ing at tlie Insect House of the Zoological Gardens " from two distinct caterpillars." There 
can be little doubt that the two different larvae were those of Corinneus and Morania 
respectively, as both butterflies resulted from pupae left at the South-African Museum by 
Mrs. Monteiro while I was away from the Colony. As far as the exuvim of the Corinneus i 
pupa go, I can see no difference between it and Morania pupae, except the greater pro- 
minence of both the dorso-thoracic peak and the cephalic projections. 
