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Show 1879.] MR. W. L. DISTANT ON AFRICAN PAPILIONES. 647 in. millims. Length of head and body .... 7*10 = 180 tail 6*30 = 160 „ ear *65 = 18 hind foot 1*00 = 26 Hab. Cape York, Queensland (Damen, Mus. Brit.). Dr. Jentink's Celebes Mouse, my Mus browni from Duke-of-York Island1, and M. terrce-reginee, are all nearly related, although perfectly distinct; and allied species will doubtless be discovered in other parts of the Eastern Archipelago. 4. On some African Species of the Lepidopterous Genus Papilio. By W . L. DISTANT. [Eeceived June 7, 1879.] (Plate XLVII.) The following short paper gives some notes taken during an examination recently made of the fine collection of African Papiliones in the collection of Mr. F. J. Horniman. Most of the West- African specimens have been obtained from the Calabar district (Isubu, Mongo-ma-lobah, Calabar) ; and these are peculiarly interesting as marking a district of which the insect fauna differs in many slight respects, though seldom specifically, from that of the neighbouring district of the Gold Coast. I have been forced to this conclusion not only from the examination of the Butterflies of this genus, but from having already worked out large collections of Hemiptera from the same locality, and from information supplied me by accomplished Coleopterists as to the insects of their own order. From Sierra Leone the divergence of the Calabar district is much greater, many insects being peculiar to each locality. PAPILIO OPHIDOCEPHALUS, Oberthur, FLtudes d'Entomologie, p. 13 (1878). M. Oberthur has given the above name to the S.-African form figured by Trimen as P. menestheus (Rhop. Afr.-Austr. t. 2. f. 1). A long series in this collection from both S. and E. Africa shows the characters to be quite constant; and a $ P. menestheus from the Calabar district agrees with tbe typical characters of the <$ of that species as figured by Drury. PAPILIO HORNIMANI, n. sp. (Plate XLVII. figs. 1,2 o*, 3 $ .) 6* • Wings above black, marginal fringe streaked with pale sulphur-yellow. Fore wings with a straight, oblique, transverse, green fascia, only divided by the nervules, extending from just inside lower apical portion of discoidal cell to about centre of interior margin. Above 1 P.Z.S. 1877, p. 123. |