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miiintely irrorated with white, and showed the whitish spot on the second segment 

 much more distinctly; the head was larger in proportion to the body, and presented 

 an ochreons line running along the sides and along onter edge of the horns. After 

 the third moult, it remained of the same dark green, but the white dorsal spot was 

 circled with light blue. (This larva does not appear to have been described by 

 Captain Harford in its final stage). 



" Pupa. — Bright green ; spiracles reddish brown ringed with white, diminishing 

 in size towards last segment; projections of head tipped with white; some confluent 

 white spots on wing covers. Head rather acutely bitid; thorax very convex; 

 wings forming slight lateral projections ; abdomen making a great angle at the 

 segment in a line with apex of wing-covers, the last segment prolonged into a pedicel 

 bearing four tubercles. (H. C. Harford, MS. notes on Natalian pupa, 1809)." 



About the habits of Ch. brutus natalensis we learn from Dr. Trimen that he 

 " frequently met with this fine Charaxes at Port Natal, and managed to capture a 

 good many specimens at the ' sucking places ' (on stems or branches of trees where 

 moisture exuded) so specially attractive to butterflies of this group. On the wing, 

 brutus is one of the very swiftest of Nymphalidas, and it is difficult to follow its 

 flight, except when it is chasing another of its species, or some competitor at the 

 drinking stations mentioned. I noted examples in February, March, and April, 

 and Colonel Bowker took several in August in the same locality ; while in Kaffraria 

 he had noticed the butterfly's occurrence in March, May, and June." 



The individuals from the Tanganyika region connect ncUalensis with the West 

 African forms. 



/. Ch. brutus andara. 



Charaxes andara Ward, Ent. Mo. Jhjg. IX. p. 2li;i (1873) (Madagascar) ; Saalm., Li-p. .Vail. p. 88. 

 n. 128 (1884); Mab., in Grandid., Hisl. Matlag. Up. I. p. 187. t. 22. f. 4. 5. G (1887) (Tamatave; 

 Foulepointe) ; Butl., Jowra. Liim. Snc. Land. XXV. p. 351. n. 2 (1896) (Antananarivo ; Ft. 

 Dauphin) ; Auriv., Kongl. St: Vet. AL Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 231. n. 2 (1899) (Madag.) 



jj. Edges of abdominal segments above sometimes slightly grey. Wings 

 above with a violet tint ; band conspicuously edged with pale blue from M- of 



forewing to (SM') o( hindwing. Forewing ; band 6 to 8 mm. broad before SM° 



(inclusive of blue border), patch M' — M^ 3 to 4 mm. wide, spot R^ — R'' generally 

 elongate, narrow, sometimes prolonged to bar D, but its proximal portion then 

 shaded with brown, spot R' — R^ often also elongate, spots SC^ — R' mostly bluish, 

 small, often only vestigial ; marginal spots white as a rule, often slightly orange 

 proximally, in one specimen (in Mr. Grose-Smith's collection) all orange and rather 



larger than usually. Hindwing: two submarginal dots M' — SM-, blue ; admarginal 



bluish creamy white line seldom continuous, mostly very widely interrupted between 

 veins, there remaining only triangular spots at the ends of the veins, these spots 

 extending into tails, anal admarginal spot, however, linear and transverse, bluish 

 olive ; discal band stopping at (SM'). 



U»dersif/e rufous red from base to discal band, bars without grey centres. 



Forewing : cell-bar 3 somewhat rounded, 4 rather slender, as is bar D ; median bars 

 SC — R- also slender, bars SC'^ — R- each very much longer than broad (a part of 

 white border) discal bars SC^ — R' dark olive ; outer area of wing from white band 

 to margin tawny ochraceous ; black postdiscal patches R' — M' rather smaller than 



in the continental forms, less pointed. ^Ilindwing : basal costal bar not touching 



white costal edge, often rounded, almost circular, white band posteriorly as well as 

 anteriorly with ])rown spots or vestiges of such ; interspace between white discal 



