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Show 1895.] FBOM BEITISH CENTBAL AFBICA. 255 15. CHAEAXES ETHALION. 2. Charaxes ethalion, Boisduval, Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 593 (1847). 3, Zomba. The male of this species, though probably often confounded with those of G. hollandi and G. alladinis, is common in collections. 16. CHAEAXES PH^EUS. 2 as 3. Charaxes phceus, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. 1877, vol. xiv. p. 82. 3. Charaxes alladinis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 648. Now that we have received the type of C. alladinis in the Godman and Salvin series, I find that my former identification of the male was incorrect; the latter is a West-African insect with the basal area of the primaries bronze-greenish, marginal spots of the same colour; secondaries with white submarginal spots and a discal lunulate green streak: it appears to inhabit the Cameroons. The male described by me in 1893 is undoubtedly that sex of C. phceus. 3, Zomba. It is a curious thing that not only did Hewitson describe and Mrs. Monteiro figure two females as sexes of G. phceus1, but Dewitz did the same thing in his attempt to figure the sexes of C. alladinis. I would propose the name of Charaxes rosce for Hewitson's supposed female of C. phceus (which is well described by Mr. Trimen), its male doubtless would nearly resemble that sex of C. etheocles. It is extremely probable that Charaxes alladinis 2 or" Dewitz (Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. Akacl. Naturf. i. pi. xvii. fig. 9, 1887) is only a slight variety of C. rosce 2 5 but his Charaxes alladinis 3 (fig. 8) is a female allied to C. ethalion and may be called G. dewitzi, it is perfectly distinct from G. alladinis. Charaxes ephyra, var., Dewitz (figs. 10-11), are probably the same as Mr. Trimen's recently described Charaxes manica, from which the female scarcely differs excepting on the apical border of the primaries : at any rate, without comparing specimens of both species, it would be unsafe to pronounce them distinct. 17. CHAEAXES WHYTEI. (Plate XV. fig. 3, 2 •) 3. Charaxes whytei, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 649, pi. Ix. fig. 2. Charaxes selousi, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 45, pi. vi. fig. 10. 2 • Above purplish black, browner on basal area; crossed beyoud the middle by a broad pure white belt, which, however, is represented above the median vein of primaries by three elongated white spots ; five other spots, sometimes lunate, in an angular series between the same belt and the costa, commencing in the second median interspace: secondaries with two spots immediately beyond and almost touching the belt upon the subcostal aud radial 1 Curiously enough'Mr. Trimen has failed to discover this error, which he has repeated in his ' South-African Butterflies,' vol. i. p. 344. |