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AFRICAN SPECIES OF PAPILIO. 
has it from Ashantee, and there is a specimen in the collection of 
the British Museum. As the species has not hitherto been figured, 
I have represented its under surface (the upper side differing only 
in being uniformly black, with similar white markings) in order 
to show the difference between it and the next species. 
Species XXIV.—PAPILIO AGAMEDES. (Plate 39, fig. 3, and Plate 37, fig. 3.) 
Syn. — Pap . Agamedes , Westw. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 
P. alis anticis subcliapbanis basi obscurioribus, fascia lata alba cmargineiuterno ad medium 
alee, hide versus costam per medium arose discoidalis, extensa, punctisquc submarginalibus 
albis i posticis ecaudatis fuscis^ fascia lata alba e medio fere ad basin extensa postice dentata, 
punctisque albis duplici serie ordinatis; alis posticis subtus pone fasciam pallide fuscis 
nigro lineatis et albo maculatis, basi aurantiis nigro bimaculatis. Expans. alar. unc. 3. 
This species, which is unique in the cabinet of the Rev. F. W. 
Hope, inhabits Ashantee. It is closely allied to the preceding, but 
differs not only in the disposition of the white markings of the wings, 
but in the semitransparence of the apical portion of the fore wings, 
which is narrower than in the preceding species. I at first thought 
it possible to be the other sex of that species, until I carefully 
examined the body, when I found it was of the same sex as speci¬ 
mens of Adamastor in Mr. Hope’s collection. 
Species? XXV.—PAPILIO ORESTES. 
Syn. — P. Orestes , Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 3, part 1, p. 34. 
Fabricius describes a species of Papilio under this name, giving 
it as a native of Africa, on the authority of Mr. Francillon’s collec¬ 
tion. This species is regarded both by Boisduval and Godart as a 
doubtful species of Papilio. Mr. Francillon’s insect was, however, 
fortunately drawn by Mr. Jones in his leones (to which, however, 
Fabricius does not refer), and from a careful examination of these 
figures it appears that the insect is in fact a species of Papilio, 
exceedingly like the Indian P. Nomius of Esper, and P. Aristseus, 
Cr., but with a very short tail. Both those species have, however, 
long tails. Notwithstanding the species of the group to which 
these insects belong are widely dispersed, I have little doubt that 
the specimen in question was an Indian insect, which had been par¬ 
tially mutilated. 
All the plants represented in these plates are natives of Sierra 
Leone, and belong to singular African orchidaceous genera; namely, 
Plate 87, Bolbophyllum barbigerum, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1942) ; 
Plate 38, Polystacha grandiflora (Bot. Mag. 3707); Plate 89, 
Angrascum distichum, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1781) ; Plate 40, Eulophia 
lurida, Lindl. (Bot. Reg. 1821). 
