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Show 1895.] FBOM BEITISH CENTEAL AFEICA. 253 reducing the marginal tawny border of the primaries to a series of oval spots; the secondaries somewhat produced at anal angle, with the inferior tail slightly incurved, but both tails well developed and only slightly shorter than in G. lasti : below, the wings are much paler than in the male, the silver band of secondaries being replaced by a broad creamy stramineous belt in continuation of that on the primaries. Expanse of wings 18 millim. Two pairs, Zomba. This species is intermediate in character between G. lasti and G. cynthia. 10. CHAEAXES BEUTUS. Papilio brutus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxli. figs. E, F (1782). 6*, Zomba. The single specimen obtained is distinctly shot with dark bronze-green on basal area and indigo-blue on external area; the white band tapers more than usual on the primaries, the five upper spots being smaller than in most examples. This species is, however, known to vary in all these characters. 11. CHAEAXES NYASANA. Charaxes nyasana, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1895, xv. pp. 248-9. Charaxes azota, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. xiv. p. 181 (1878). S, Zomba. Hewitson's description of his Nyasa example is insufficient to enable anyone to distinguish it from the true male of G. azota from Delagoa Bay: the latter is smaller than examples from Nyasaland, and on the upper surface of the primaries the reddish-tawny border divides above the second median branch, the inner furca consisting of five and the outer of six spots; in the Nyasa form the border divides above the third median branch, leaving only two and a half spots of the inner furca free; the remaining divisions of the border are also marked with black spots : on the secondaries the outer red area occupies nearly half the wing in the male from Delagoa Bay, but in G. nyasana only two-fifths, in the former the inner edge of this border is nearly straight; in the latter it is zigzag. O n the under surface the shiny glaucous lilacine central band in G. nyasana is of double tbe width of that in C. azota: expanse of wings in the former 95 millim., in the latter 87 millim. C. calliclea, H . G. Smith, is an intermediate race. 12. CHAEAXES LEONINUS, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 2.) Allied to G. nichetes, similar in form. Above deep orange, tawny in the male, paler in the female ; a single or double black spot in the cell of primaries just below tbe subcostal vein, a transverse subcuneiform spot at end of cell, two quadrate spots beyond the cell, and three smaller spots in the mediau interspaces; a black zigzag discal band, diffused on both sides towards costa and bounding |