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PLATES XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, and XL. 
ON THE AFRICAN SPECIES OF THE GENUS PAPILIO OF 
MODERN AUTHORS. 
Haying observed great confusion in the nomenclature of many 
of the African species of the genus Papilio as restricted by modern 
authors, owing in a considerable degree to the rarity of the larger 
Lepidoptera from that continent, and the impossibility of deter¬ 
mining some of the Fabrician species described from the drawings 
oi Mr. Jones (which, as already stated, I have had an opportunity 
of examining), and having been also favoured by the Rev. F. W. 
Hope, M. Boisduval, and the respective curators of the entomo¬ 
logical departments of the British Museum and Jardin des Plantes, 
with the means of describing and figuring several new and unfigured 
species, I have considered it would be serviceable to give a complete 
list of the African species of the genus, with a revision of their 
synonymy and other notes. 
The present paper is intended, therefore, to comprise only such 
species as are inhabitants of the African continent; those which 
are peculiar to Madagascar and the other adjacent islands will form 
a subsequent paper. I have, for convenience, adopted the arrange¬ 
ment of M. Boisduval, given in the first volume of his Species 
general des Lepidopteres, although I do not consider the classifi¬ 
cation and groups given in that work by any means natural. Of 
this no greater proof can be given than is afforded by his first two 
species of the genus, P. Antimachus and Antenor, which are as 
unlike each other as can be conceived in general form, although 
introduced into the same group ; whilst many of the species which 
exhibit far less striking dissimilarity are formed into separate 
sections : the great extent of the genus, however, (to which, in 
my opinion, the Ornithopteri ought to be united, since the chief 
character by which they have been separated by M. Boisduval— 
namely, the structure of the anal appendages—is, as shown by 
M. De Haan, too variable amongst the species restricted by him to 
the genus Papilio, to allow of its adoption as a generic character,) 
united with our ignorance of the preparatory states of so many of 
NO. X.—NOVEMBER, 1842. 
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