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Show 822 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Nov. 17, 8. SAMANTA SIMONSI. Mycalesis simonsii, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xix. p. 458 (1877). <3 o% Karonga plain, 1670 feet alt., N.W. coast of Lake Nyasa, August 20th ; 2 , Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika Boad, August 22nd, 1895. Said to be, without question, tbe dry-season form ot S. perspicua: this is quite possible, inasmuch as all the specimens now sent were obtained at the height of the dry season. The difference between the two forms is one of colour rather than of pattern or outline ; also, as might be expected, the ocelli are reduced in size. The chief objection is that the nearly related S. eliasls is a native of a humid country, and has no wet-season form corresponding with S. perspicua. 9. CHABAXES SATURNUS, var. LATICINCTUS. Charaxes saturnus, var. laticinctus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. S, Vuwa, W . coast of Lake Nyasa, August 16th, 1895. 10. CHARAXES DRUCEANUS. Charaxes druceanus, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 4 (1869); Lep. Exot. p. 26, pl. x. fig. 4. S, Lumpi Biver, Lower Nyika, Nov. 30th, 1895. " Taken on a putrefying Eland's head, while on a porter s head (R. C). 11. CHARAXES ACH^MENES. Charaxes achcemenes, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, pl. lix. figs. 6, 7 (1867). S , Deep Bay, March 6th, 1896. 12. CHARAXES GUDERIANA. 6*. Nymphalls guderiana, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle 1879, p. 200, pl. 2. fig. 18. 5 . Charaxes guderiana, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 648 ; Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, pl. v. fig. 8. 5 , Deep Bay, Jan. 17th, 1896. ,. "Taken feeding upon over-ripe bananas in my veranda;^ contained a " prodigious quantity of bright emerald-green ova (B. C). 13. CHARAXES MANICA. 2 . Charaxes manica, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 43, pl. vi. fig. 9. 6*, Kapora, Songwe plain, N.W. Nyasa, March 3rd, 1895 (J B Yule); 2 . Mtambwi Hill, Deep Bay, July 1st, 189o. The female is larger than in Mr. Trimen's figure, and, on the upper surface, reminds one strongly of C. bohemanni $ ; it is a good deal shattered, having evidently been long on the wing. Mr Crawshay says of it :-" A rare and almost impossible insect |