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Show 60 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Jan. 17* from anal angle to apex ; an indication of a small ocellus near outer margin on the first median interspace : under surface dark smoky brown, sparsely transversely striated with white ; primaries with one and secondaries with three ocelli arranged as in Y.pupillarts. Expanse of wings 39 millim. 3 . Foda, 20th October, 1885. A rather worn male of this remarkable species was obtained ; unlike all the other species in the genus, it resembles Euptychia ocirrhoe on the upper surface. NYMPHALIN./E. 15. CHARAXES LUCRETIUS. Papilio lucretius, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 82. F, G (1779). 2 . Monbuttu, July or August. 16. CHARAXES POLLUX. Papilio pollux, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 37. E, F (1776). 3 . Monbuttu, July or August. 17. CHARAXES KIRKI. 2 . Charaxes kirkii, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xviii. p. 105 (1881). 3 . Toro, Foda, 27th October, 1885. The male is velvety blue-black ; the primaries with a narrow bronze-greenish border, divided by dusky veins; the base shot with steel-blue ; a blue spot within the anterior angle of the cell, three opaline white spots (only the central one large) at one third the distance from discoidal cell to apex, two similarly coloured spots and a dot at two thirds: secondaries with a bronze-greenish marginal lunulated stripe, followed by a black fringe, the first four divisions enclosing dark red curved dashes, the remainder more or less golden ; a submarginal series of more or less lunate spots, separated from the greenish border by black curved dashes or semicircular spots ; this series consists of white-edged spots, all, excepting two confluent ones at the anal angle (which are violet), being blue-green ; a short distance from the submarginal series is a discal lunulate green line ; on the under surface the male much resembles the female, differing just as the other black males do from their respective females. 18. PALLA VARANES. Papilio varanes, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 160. D, E (1779). A fragment of this species was captured at Faro on the 7th November, 1885. 19. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764). 3 . Stazione Bauri, September; 3 2 - Kangasi, 2nd, 1 6th, and 17th October and 21st November, 1883; Monbuttu in July and August. |
