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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 39 Both have the fuscous borders and markings strongly developed, the male indeed approaching in this respect the variety A from Zululand and Delagoa Bay described by m e in S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 405 (1889); and the female having all the ground-colour spots in the border of the fore wings completely separated from the discal field. Male examples as dark as the one here noted have been taken at Durban and sent to m e by Mr. A. D. Millar. 59. CHARAXES VARANES (Cram.). Papilio varanes, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. clx. figs. D, E (1779), and iv. t. ccclxxxviii. figs. A, B (1782). The two specimens received, taken in the Mineni Valley, agree with those from the Zambesi and Quilimane, and indeed with Tropical examples generally, in having the basal white much better developed (in both fore and hind wings) than in any individual from the extra-tropical area that I have examined. 60. CHARAXES LASTI, H. G. Smith. (Plate V. fig. 6, ? .) Charaxes lasti, H. G. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 131 (1889) ; and Ehop. Exot. p. 8, pi. (Char.) iv. figs. 4, 5[tf](1880). There are two examples ( 6 and $ ) from the Mineni Valley, taken on the 18th and 14th March respectively, a male specimen from the Pungwe Valley taken on 1st September, and two ( 3 and $ ) captured on the Pungwe Eiver, about 15 miles above Sarmento, on 19th September. I have not seen the types of this Charaxes, but, judging from the description and figures above cited, I do not think Mr. Selous's specimens can be held distinct from it; although all three males differ in some respects from the figures, they also differ from one another. All three agree in having the transverse irregular series of fuscous markings on the disk disconnected (except near the costa) from the hind-marginal fuscus border, and extended by an additional sagittiform mark below 2nd median nervule, and also in having the lowest and largest fulvous hind-marginal spot completely enclosed in the border ; in these features differing from the figure of the upperside. The Mineni and Pungwe Valley males further diverge from the same figure in presenting a well-developed sub-marginal fuscous band in the hind wing from the costa to the 1st median nervule; and even in the male from above Sarmento, in which all the fuscous markings of the upperside are greatly reduced, there are traces of this long band. On the underside, again, all are paler and yellower than in fig. 5, and only the Mineni Valley male has the silvery-white median stripe across the hind wings (which is, however, much broader than in the figure). The two Pungwe males have all the underside markings much attenuated, and in the example from above Sarmento they are almost obsolete; and both they and the Mineni male have more or |