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Show 1891.] FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA. 81 37. CHARAXES GUDERIANA (Dewitz). Nymphalis guderiana, Dewitz, Nov. Act. K. Leop.-Carol. Deutsch. Akad. Naturf. xii. p. 200, t. xxvi. f. 18 (1879). Omrora (August) and Ehanda (September). Sixteen male examples. Though so differently marked on the upperside, this species exhibits on the underside very close alliance to C. ephyra (Godt.), the chief distinctions consisting in the partial reproduction of the white markings of the upperside, and in the hind wings the better definition of the ferruginous discal lunulate streak, and the presence of some whitish scaling immediately beyond the median irregular bluish-black line. Exp. al. 2 in. 5-8 lin. A single male, sent to me in 1883, was taken by Mr. F. C. Selous on the Gwailo River, South Mashuna-land. 38. CHARAXES BOHEMANI, Feld. 8 . Charaxes bohemani, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iii. p. 321, t. 6. f. 3 (1859); Butl. Lep. Exot. p. 28, pi. x. f. 3 ($) (1869). Omrora (August). Two male examples. The specimens received of this noble Charaxes expand respectively 3 in. 7| lin. and 4 in. The expanse of the Zambesi female figured by Butler (loc. cit.) is given as 3 in. 10 lin. Felder's type was from Lake Ngami (Wahlberg); Druce (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1875, p. 412) notes a fine series of the species from Angola (Monteiro) ; and Dewitz (loc. cit.) also mentions it as taken in Angola by Pogge. Family LYC^ENiDiE. Genus LYCCENA, Fabr. 39. LYCiENA OSIRIS, Hopff. 8 . Lyccena osiris, Hopff. Monatsb. Preuss. Akad. Wissensch. 1855, p. 642. n. 21 ; Peters, Reise Mossamb., Ins. p. 409, t. xxvi. ff. 11, 12(1862). Otiembora (November-December). One female example. 40. LYCENA ASOPUS, Hopff. 8 $. Lyccena asopus, Hopff. loc. cit. n. 22 (1855); and op. cit. p. 410, ff. 13-15 (1862) Omrora (August-September). One male example. 41. LYCENA PARSIMON (Fabr.). 8 . Papilio parsimon, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 526. n. 349 (1775). Papilio celceus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. ccclxxix. ff. K, K (1781). Okavango River (December). One male specimen. 42. LYCENA GLAUCA, Trim. 8 $. Lyccena glauca, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. ii. p. 21. n. 123 (1887). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1891, No. VI. 6 |