PAPILIO. By Dr. G. Aurhhllius. 
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three spots of the same colour in the cell of the forewing and one in the cell of the hindwing; the submarginal 
spots of cellules 1 c—5 of the hindwing are filled in with vivid red (tf) or reddish (§). The larva is whitish 
and has on each segment reddish fleshy tubercles; it lives on a Combretacea, Quisqualis grandidieri Baill. 
Pupa of greenish colour and strongly curved in S-shape; the three middle segments of the abdomen have 
each two short tubercles above. The history of this magnificent species is very singular. Like antimachus 
it was first described and figured by the English collector D. Drury in his work „Illustrations of Natural 
History 11 . Drury did not know the habitat of antenor and even in 1886 Boisduval had seen no specimen 
of this species, but reported that according to Hope it was a native of Timbuctoo in the Western Soudan. 
Not until much later was it known that antenor inhabits Madagascar, where it only occurs on the west and 
south coasts, but not in the primeval forest region, antenor is allied to the East Indian Aristolochia Papilios 
and is one of the many proofs that the fauna of South Asia is more closely connected with the fauna of Mada¬ 
gascar than with that of the African continent. 
C. Kite Swallowtails. 
This division is represented by numerous species in the Ethiopian Region. The species are on an 
average smaller and more weakly built than those of the first division. They may be divided into 6 groups, of 
which the first four have rounded hindwings, without tails. The ?$ of most of the species are very rare in col¬ 
lections and some of them even quite unknown; they differ very little from the S3- 
Ridleyanus Group. 
Hindwing rounded, without tail. Frons broadly yellow at each side, only narrowly black in the middle. 
Palpi unicolorous yellow. Wings above black and red, marked similarly to the species of the genus Ac r aea. 
Earlier stages unknown. 
P. ridleyanus White (1 a). Forewing black, semitransparent in places, with a half-band of 5 red spots ridleyanus. 
in cellules 1 a—4 and two deep black transverse spots, margined with yellow at each side, in the cell; hind- 
wing above red with black marginal band and base and a few black spots. ■— From Lokoja on the Niger to 
Angola, Equatoria and Bukoba on the Victoria Nyanza. 
Pylades Group. 
Hindwing tailless, angled at the extremities of the veins. Frons with a white or red dot or streak at 
each side. Palpi white. Wings above white and black, beneath at the base red or red-brown. The underside 
of the wings has the same white ground-pattern in all the species. On the forewing this consists of 8 sub¬ 
marginal spots placed close to the margin; 9 discal spots (in 1 a—8), of which those of cellules 5, 6 and 8 are 
almost always small and double, and four transverse spots or bands in the cell. The hindwing has beneath a 
broad white transverse band, which at the costal margin extends at least to vein 2, covers almost the whole of 
he cell and is separated from the white inner marginal area lb by a dark longitudinal streak in cellule 1 c. 
In the broad, dark submarginal band the hindwing has 6 submarginal spots, of which those of cellules 1—4 are 
sometimes divided, and 3—4 subdiscal spots in cellules 2— 5; these may also be double and arranged in two 
rows. The hairs of the inner marginal fold of the hindwing of the 3 are long and yellowish white. The full- 
grown larva has not only on the first and the penultimate segment, but also on the second and third two 
widely separated spines. The long hump on the mesothorax of the pupa is obliquely inclined forwards and 
extends almost as far as the tip of the head. 
P. endochus Bdv. (7 c). Hindwing beneath with 4—5 free red subdiscal spots in 1 c—5. The white endochus. 
basal part of the upper surface of the wings is very large, almost reaches the apex of the cell on the fore¬ 
wing and extends beyond the cell on the hindwing; the black parts of the upperside are almost without 
spots with the exception of a small spot in cellule 7 of the hindwing. -—- Madagascar. 
P. pylades. Hindwing beneath without red spots in the marginal band; both wings above with white 
spots in the marginal band; abdomen with a broad yellow lateral stripe at each side; apex of the cell of the 
forewing with two white spots, one in the upper and one in the lower angle. — pylades F. (7 c). The discal pylades. 
spot in cellule 8 of the forewing completely fills up the base of this cellule and is united with the hindmarginal 
spot of the cell and the discal spots of cellules 1 a—2 into a large white area. Senegal, as far as the White 
Nile, southwards only to the most northerly part of the Congo State. -— - angolanus Goeze (7 b). The discal angolanus. 
spot in cellule 3 is entirely absent or is .small and quite free, not reaching the base of the cellule; cell of the 
forewing without white hindmarginal spot or with only a very small one. From the Congo region southwards 
to Natal and eastwards to British East Africa, ab. lapydes Suff. only differs from angolanus in that the cell lapydes. 
of the forewing has a hindmarginal spot, which however only reaches vein 3; German East Africa: Kilossa. 
P. morania. Hindwing beneath without red spots in the marginal band; both wings above with white 
spots in the marginal band; abdomen without continuous yellow lateral stripe, at most with three yellow 
lateral spots on segments 2—4, on the other hand with triangular black lateral spots. Apex of the 
