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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 69 1884, and the other farther to the north-east, a little south junction of the Chobe and Zambesi Fivers, in 1889. This is not a variation in the direction of the closely-allied southern form, P. brasiclas, Feld., in which the basal red in question is usually much duller and sometimes obsolescent. 131. PAPILIO CORINNEUS, Bertol. Papilio corinneus, Bertol. Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologna, 1849, p. 9, t. i. figs. 1-3 \ Five examples-a male from Umtali, two females from Christmas Pass, and a male and female from Mineni Valley. 132. PAPILIO DEMOLEUS, Linn. Papilio demoleus, Linn. Mus. Lud. LTlr. Eeg. p. 214. n. 33 (1764). Eight specimens from Christmas Pass, and two from Mineni Valley. A rather worn female among the former has all the yellow spots deeper and duller in tint than usual, presenting some approach to the specimens sometimes met with in which these markings are of dull ochry-reddish. (See S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 227, footnote.) 133. PAPILIO OPHIDICEPHALUS, Oberth. Papilio ophidicephalus, Oberth. Etudes d'Ent. iii. p. 13 (1878). The solitary example of this fine Papilio is a female taken at Christmas Pass on 29th February. Unfortunately it is very much worn and broken, but it displays a remarkable aberration in the form of the common transverse yellow band, which in the fore wing is not only continuous and non-macular throughout but at its superior extremity is narrower than usual and farther from apex, its inner edge being immediately beyond (instead of some little distance from) the end of the discoidal cell2; the oblique marking crossing the cell near its termination it also greatly enlarged and very broad inferiorly. In the hind wings the band is wider than usual in the left wing, and very much wider in the right one. Mr. Selous saw two specimens only. 134. PAPILIO LY^US, Doubl. 3 . Papilio nireus, Cram, (nee Linn.) Pap. Exot, iv. pi. ccclxxviii. figs. F, G (1782). Papilio lyceus, Doubl. "Ann. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 178 (1845) " ; Gen. D. Lep. i. p. 13. n. 98 (1846). Fourteen males and two females from Christmas Pass, and two 1 The pagination and number of the plate are those of the separate copies of the memoir; but, from Butler's quotation of " p. 183, t. 9 " for Deilephila ranzani (a moth described and figured on p. 19, t. 1), these appear not to be those of the original publication. Butler also gives the date of publication as 1850: the memoir is dated as read on " 25th January, 1849." 2 It is noteworthy that this costal incurvation is characteristic of the closely allied P. menestheus, Drury, from West Africa, in which, however, the band is very narrow and composed of completely separated spots in the upper parts as well as in the rest. |
