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Show 100 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 20, Subfamily PAPILIONIN^E. Genus PAPILIO, Linn. 101. PAPILIO ANTHEUS, Ciam. Papilio antheus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxxxiv. ff. B, C (1779). Ehanda (August-September). Fifteen male examples. These specimens, except in not being so large, appear to approach the variety from Lake Nyanza separated by Mr. Butler (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. xii. p. 106, 1883) as P. lurlinus, having most of the pale green markings (especially the discocellular waved striae of the fore wings) wider than usual, and the striae just referred to (particularly the outermost of them) more strongly bisinuated. 102. PAPILIO CORINNEUS, Bertol. Papilio corinneus, Bertol. " M e m . Acad. Sci. Bologn. 1849, p. 9, t. i. ff. 1-3." Omrora (August). Nine male specimens. Considerably smaller than usual, expanding from 2 in. 6 lin. to 3 in. One specimen is a notable aberration in colouring, the basal red in both fore and hind wings on the underside being entirely absent, and replaced by the ochre-yellow of the ground-colour. 103. PAPILIO MORANIA. (Plate IX. fig. 21, cf •) Papilio morania, Angas, Kafirs. Illustr. pi. xxx. f. 1 (1849). Omrora (August). Eighteen male examples. These specimens, like those of P. corinneus, are much below the usual size, expanding from 2 in. 4| lin. to 6 lin. only. They all belong to a variety approaching P. corinneus in the following particulars, viz. : in the fore wings the terminal discocellular white marking is unequally divided by a curved oblique black streak, and the external superior projection of the large white patch is considerable ; and in the hind wings the white field is more restricted than in ordinary morania, having a somewhat broader hind marginal black border. Nine of the specimens want the small subbasal discocellular white spot in the fore wings, and two others have it verv faintly expressed ; whereas in typical morania this spot is better developed than in corinneus '. When compared with the typical P. morania of the south-eastern coast, this Omrora variety is most interesting, as possibly indicating one of the stages in the differentiation of the species from P. corinneus, which is itself so near an ally of the more northern P. pyludes, Fabr. 1 In connection with these Omrora specimens, which, though on the whole nearer to P. morania, exhibit decided variation in the direction of P. corinneus. I note here, on the other hand, a male example of the latter (sent to me from Malvern, Natal, by Mr. Cecil N. Barker) which approaches P. morania in the markings of the underside of the hind wings, where the four white spots of the submarginal series are nearer to the white field than usual, and are also blackish-edged internally, and the inner marginal red is much fainter towards its extremity. |
