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Show 252 DE. A. G. BUTLEE ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Mar. 19, which I now have some doubt. We received the male from Sulim bin Najimb, Konde, where it was obtained by Mr. E . Crawshay. It differs from the typical form in the more falcate character of the primaries (particularly in the female), the lighter, redder basal area of the wings above, the clearer colouring of the postmedian tawny band, and the smaller black spots which traverse it; the marginal markings on all the wings extended inwards so as to form a broad band, divided into truncated ovoid tawny spots in the primaries and in the secondaries barely separated by the black veins into eight spots-the three first tawny, bell-shaped or obconical, slightly tipped at the outer angles with white, the fourth white with orange fold, the fifth and sixth similarly coloured but quadrate internally, the two last green varied with white and lavender, connate in the female ; all the tawny spots below larger and of a more salmon tint, the grey-greenish markings on basal area with more slender white margins. Expanse of wings, o* 3 inches 3 lines ; 2 3 inches 11 lines. I think that this m a y prove to be at least a distinct race, having a restricted range in British Central Africa, and therefore I propose to call it var. laticinctus. W e received a third example in the Salvin and Godman collection. 7. CHAEAXES DEUCEANUS. 3. Charaxes druceanus, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 4 (Oct. 1869) ; Lep. Exot. p. 26, pi. x. fig. 4. 2 , Zomba. The female is slightly larger and has a broader tawny band than the male. 8. CHAEAXES POLLUX. Papilio pollux, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxxvii. figs. E, F (1776). d, Zomba. 9. CHAEAXES MACCLOUNII, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) o*. Allied to C. lasti -. primaries with less arched costa, less sinuated outer margin, and shorter inner margin; secondaries strongly produced at anal angle, with only two tails, the first of which (at extremity of third median branch) is a mere denticle, the second (at extremity of first median branch) barely half the length of that in C. lasti; colouring deeper throughout, with all the black markings considerably heavier, the discal spots of primaries continued to below first median branch, those of secondaries forming a continuous tapering submarginal band ; under surface altogether more ochreous than in C. lasti, the markings mostly ferruginous, the black-bordered grey markings on interno-median area of primaries reduced in size, the silver band of secondaries widened out as in C. cynthia. Expanse of wings 80 millim. 2 • Extremely like M r . Trimen's figure of G. lasti 2 (P- z- S- 1894, pi. v. fig. 6), but altogether deeper in colour, the black markings heavier, the macular submarginal band much wider, |