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specimens taken by both Eaffray and Antinori were of the Lymis form, 
we may conclude that this is emphatically the form of the East and 
South, as Nireus is of the West. 
This very beautiful species is common and widely spread over Eastern 
South Africa, wherever native woods extend ; its southern and western limit 
appearing to be Knysna in Cape Colony, where I found it abundantly. It has 
a rapid and pow^erful flight, often soaring over the highest forest trees, but its 
frequent visits to flowers render it tolerably easy of capture. In the woods 
Plumbago capensis seemed its principal attraction, and in gardens the flowers 
of the orange and the common and Indian periwinkles. At D' Urban, Natal, 
where it attains its largest size and is very numerous, I often took it at rest on 
leaves of trees at the edges of woods. There appear to be a succession of 
broods from September to May, and I have records of various stragglers taken 
during the three winter months, but the butterfly is at this season seldom met 
with. The paired sexes were captured by Colonel Bowker at King William's 
Town in November 1876, and at D' Urban in January 1888. 
Localities of Pa^ilio Lyoeus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna and Plettenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Uitenhage. Grahamstown, Highlands, and 
Mitford Park, Albany District. King William's Town. East 
London (P. BorcJierds). Windvogelberg, Queenstown District 
{G. E. Bulger). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee Eiver {J. H. BoivJcer). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, Mapumulo. "Lower Umkomazi." 
— J. H. Bowker. 
b. Upper Districts. — Umqueqa Falls. Greytown. Maritzburg {Miss 
Golenso and A. Windham). 
F. Zululand.— Etshowe (A. M, Goodrich and T. Vachdl). 
G. " Swaziland."— The late E. C. Buxton. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques (3Irs. Monteiro). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
b. Eastern Coast. — River Shire {Rev. II. Waller). 1 " Tchouacka, 
Zanguebar (Eafrmj).^' — Oberthiir — ["Var. Nh'eus."] 
B. North Tropical. 
^i. Eastern Interior. — Abyssinia, "Lake Tsana {Raffray)^^ and 
" Shoa (Antinori).''^ — Oberthtir. 
313. (14.) Papilio Cenea, Stoll.' 
$ Papilio Brutus, Godt. (pars), Encyc. Meth., ix. p. 69, n. 122 (18 19). 
„ „ Donov., Nat. Repos., iii. pi. 77 (1825). 
„ „ Boisd. (pars), Faune Entom. de Madag., &c., p. 12 (1833). 
„ „ Boisd., Var. A., Spec. Gen. Dep., p. 221, n. 39 (1836). 
„ „ Chenu, Encyc. d'Hist. Nat., Pap., pi. 2, f, i (?i852). 
Papilio Merop)e, Doubl. and Westw. (pars), Gen. Diurn. Dep., i. p. 13, 
n. 92 (1846). 
^ See some remarks on this species and its allies in vol, i. pp. 38, 39. 
