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Show 1894.J MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 45 specimens more of a greenish tinge than usual; in one male there is in the fore wings a small separate spot of blue just beyond the extremity of the discoidal cell. The underside is also very constant, but in the male exhibits some variation in the size and brightness of the yellow lunules which form a common sinuated submarginal series. Mr. Selous informs me that he always found both sexes of this species sucking at exudations^ on the branches of a tree of moderate size; during flight the blue field of the upperside is conspicuous. Though not uncommon and rather widely distributed over Mashunaland, Mr. Selous was not able to secure specimens of it before visiting Manica. 71. CHARAXES CITHCERON, Feld. Charaxes cithceron, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iii. p. 398, t. 8. figs. 2, 3 (1859). The only example is a much-woru female taken at Christmas Pass on the 29th February. It differs from the typical form so prevalent on the Natal coast, and approaches the female C. xiphares (Cram.), on the upperside of the fore wings by the more macular white median band, and by the two subapical white spots being succeeded inferiorly by a sinuated series of five whitish spots growing fainter downwards, and on the underside of the hind wings by the more pronounced markings throughout, and especially by the presence of a narrow white bar externally bounding the highly irregular median dark-blue transverse streak. On the upperside, however, the median band of the hind wings is not broad and ochre-yellow as in C. xiphares, but pale violaceous-blue and white as in cithceron and narrower than usual in the latter. The tails of the hind wings are very much shorter than in cithceron, shorter and narrower than in C. xiphares $ , being in fact as short and acute as in C. xiphares S • 72. CHARAXES SELOUSI, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 10, rf •) cS. Exp. cd. 2 in. 1 lin. Black, with submetallic pcde violaceous-blue white-clouded sub-margined marking, developed in hind wing into a broad discal space. Fore wing : a sinuated submarginal series of eight blue and white spots, of which only the three lowest, between 2nd median nervule and inner margin, are enlarged and conspicuous, forming a short transverse band widening to inner marginal edge; the other five spots all small and very indistinct, except the 2nd and 3rd, which lie between 5th subcostal and lowTer radial nervules and are more white than blue. Hind wing : violaceous space extending over disk from costa to below 1st median nervule, and from extremity of discoidal cell to a little distance from hind margin-traversed by a whitish ray and with its inner edge white; just within hind-marginal edge a lunulated bluish-scaled streak, dull red as far as 3rd median nervule, but below that |
