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Show 648 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [NOV. 7 17. CHARAXES JOCASTE. c? . Charaxes jocaste, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 628, n. 21. 2 • Charaxes achcemenes, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, n. 729, pi. 59. figs. 6, 7 (1867). Zomba, July 1892. I do not see why the name C. jocaste should be ignored, since thousands of descriptions applicable to half a dozen species coming from the same locality are allowed to stand. M y description characterized four species, of two of which the locality was established, one being from India and the other from Senegal; both species were well known under the names C. fabius, Fabr., and C. jocaste, Boisd., M S . In the absence of any other known African species, G. jocaste from Senegal was perfectly recognizable by my description; therefore it seems to m e that, as a matter of fact, it was sufficiently characterized and the name C. jocaste (as a matter of principle) should supersede that of C. achcemenes. The object of a description is not to glorify the author of it, but to render a new species recognizable, and it is on this account that good figures of new species (when named), although unaccompanied by any description whatever, are recognized as claiming priority over subsequent descriptions of the same species. It is immaterial by what name a species is known, provided that the oldest name by which it was recognized is retained. 18. CHARAXES GUDERIANA. 3. Nymphalis guderiana, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. Halle, 1879, p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 18. 3, December 1892; 3 § , January 1893; cf ? Mipa Stream, Mofwi, August 3, 1892 (R. C ). The female approaches that sex of C. kirkii, being crossed above by a buff band which on the primaries is broken up, above the first median branch, into two series of spots divergent on the costal area ; the bluish-white discoidal spot of the male is also represented by a buff spot. 19. CHARAXES ALLADINIS. 2 . Gliaraxes alladinis, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 5, n. 3 (1869) Lep. Exot. i. pi. 10. fig. 2 (1870). 3. Above very near to 0. hollandii (the Sierra Leone representative of C. eihalion), but in outline of wing even more quadrate than C. ethalion itself, the primaries having a much less arched outer margin and the secondaries being shorter. Above blue-black : primaries with the costa, basal fourth, apex, and outer margin bronze green; two subapical obliquely placed unequal greenish-white spots: secondaries with the costal area purplish brown, the abdominal area, including the greater part of the discoidal cell, clothed with brown hair; external area and veins greenish; a shining bronze-green lunulated stripe halfway between the cell and outer margin, only the last four sinuations |
