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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 43 those of male, except that the common discal band of the upper-side is represented in white (rath er vaguely defined externally), and that its outer series of ochreous spots in the fore wing is faintly reproduced. The pattern and coloration of both sexes on the underside exhibit the closest agreement with those shown in C. ethalion, Boisd., only differing in the greater thickness and (in parts) brighter tints of the markings, and, in the male only, by the reproduction of the costal, outer discal, and hind-marginal white spots of the fore wings. On the upperside the disparity between the female C. guderiana and the female C. ethalion, and the great likeness to C. saturnus in the former, are due to the ferruginous colour of the basal areas and the narrowness and decided ochre-yellow tint of the discal band. Mr. Selous notes the interesting circumstance that while all the more numerous males were found drinking at the water's edge, the females were invariably met with sucking the exudations on a tree-stem or branches in company with the fine " Goliath " Cetoniid beetles, Rhamphorrhina petersiana, Eudicella trimeni, &c. 67. CHARAXES EPHYRA (Godt.). Nymphalis ephyra, Godt. Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 355 (1819). Nine males from the Mineni Valley. Six of these present on the upperside of the hind wings the series of dull-greenish lunules before the submarginal bluish ones mentioned by Godart (loc. cit.) as occurring in a single specimen from the West Coast of Africa. The underside is darker, and with a more ferruginous tinge than usual. The males of this Butterfly are noted as always found drinking at the water's edge ; they were captured during March. 68. CHARAXES PHCEUS, Hewits. Charaxes phceus, Hewits. Ent. M. Mag. xiv. p. 82 (1877) ; E. Monteiro, Delagoa Bay, &c. frontisp. figs. 4, 5 (1891). The only example (a § ) was taken on a tree at Lusika Eiver on the 1st April. 69. CHARAXES MANICA, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 9, $ .) $ . Exp. al. 2 in. 10 lin. to 3 in. 2 lin. Allied to C. ephyra (Godt.), C. phceus, Hewits., &c. Submetallic pcde blue, more or less tinged with greenish, with very broad fuscous apical hind-marginal borders; in fore iving a rather broad obliquely transverse white band outwardly bordering the blue as in female C. bohemani, Feld. Fore wing: blue dull for some distance from base, thence brighter; white band commences widely on costa, encroaching internally a little on discoidal cell at extremity, and is of about even width as far as 1st median nervule beyond middle, but below this is bent inwardly from the general oblique direction, and much narrowed by diffusion of the blue as far as submedian nervure, below which it does not extend; apical • |