HABITAT: Cape of Good Hope.
_Upper Side._ The wings are dentated, and of a fine dark brown colour.
The anterior having seven square discoidal red spots, of different sizes.
The posterior ones are furnished with four short tails, two on each;
above which are three small red spots.
_Under Side._ The anterior wings are red at the base; but along the
external and interior edges are of a rusty grey brown, with several dark
marks or clouds thereon. Near the anterior edge, towards the base, are
three black spots, with three small white ones in their centres. The
posterior wings are of a rusty grey brown, darkest in the middle, with a
margin of a paler colour, running along the external and part of the
upper edges. Several spots, of a silver white, are dispersed on different
parts of the wings; some being round, long, triangular, &c. About the
middle of each wing is a long silvery mark, running in a direction from
the base to the external edge; being about half the length of the wing.
Drury confounded this species with the European Papilio Rumina, Linn.
belonging to a distant genus (Thais), whilst Fabricius described it twice
under the specific names cited above.