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AFRICAN SPECIES OF PAP1LIO. 
North America as its habitat; and Boisduval gives it under the 
name of Policenes (H. N. Lep. 1, p. 261), and as inhabiting Suri¬ 
nam and some of the Antilles. I can see no difference between 
the true African specimens and the figures and descriptions of the 
authors above referred to, and therefore think that they must have 
erred in the locality they assign to the species. 
Palisot de Beauvois figures the true African Agapenor under the 
name of Pap. Scipio (Lep. pi. 2, fig. 1). P. Agapenor of Boisduval 
is distinct. Godart has given the true Agapenor (as well as P. Po- 
lixenus) ; but as his knowledge of it is stated to be derived from 
Fabricius alone, he evidently did not perceive the identity. 
Species XV.—PAPILIO ANTHEUS. 
Syn. — Pap. Antheus, Fabr. ; Cramer, pi. 234, fig. B, C. 
Papilio Antharis, God. Enc. Meth. 
Papilio Agapenor , Boisduval (nec Fabr.) 
Fabricius (Ent. Syst. 3, 1, p. 36) expressly says of this, “ Sta- 
tura omnino P. Agapenor at ecaudatus,” referring merely to 
“ Cramer, Ins.” [that is, to his pi. 234, B, C.] and to Jones’s leones, 
1, pi. 56. These figures agree in all respects, except that the 
latter have no tails to the hind wings. The species is stated by 
all these authors to be from Amboyna. It, however, precisely 
agrees with specimens lately received from Sierra Leone and 
Ashantee by the British Museum and Mr. Hope, having long tails. 
Godart and Boisduval give the Fabrician and Cramerian insects as 
distinct, retaining the name of Antheus for the Fabrician species, 
which they only know from the writings of Fabricius; Godart 
giving Cramer’s species under the name of Antharis , and as a 
native of North America; and Boisduval under the incorrect one 
of Agapenor , from which species it is at once distinguished by the 
want of a red stripe on the under side of the hind wings, and by 
the curved pale bars in the discoidal cell of the fore wings. I have 
no doubt that the early authors erred in their locality Amboyna, 
and that all these supposed species are identical and natives of 
Africa. 
Species XVI.—PAPILIO LALANDEI. (Plate 37, fig. 1, 2.) 
Syn. — Pap. Lalandei , Godart, Euc. Meth.; Boisduval. 
Godart, in the Encyclopedie Methodique, refers to the Meinoires 
de la Societe Linneenne de Paris, vol. 2, pi. 1, Lep. fig. 1, 2, for 
figures of this butterfly; but M. Boisduval informs me that those 
figures were never published : I have therefore represented its 
