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specimens from the same place from all times of tbe year. The climate iu East Africa 

 is often locally so ilifterent, that individuals caught on the same day, but a few miles 

 apart, may have i)assed the chrysalis state under very different climatical conditions. 

 The few dated specimens we have iu the Tring Museum are recorded below. 



The larva and chrysalis of the South African subspecies are described by Trimen 

 (see below). 



". Ch. varanes austrinus Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



(?) PupiUo Equcs Achivus varanes Stoll, in Cramer, Pap. E.rnl. IV. p. 202. t. .388. f. A.B (1782) 



(Amboina !). 

 Nijmplwllt i-ennies (!), Godart, Em: MHh. IX. p. 364. n. 48 (1823) {syii.pni p. : CafEraria) ; Lucas 



Lep. Ej: p. 123. t. 65. f. 1 (1835) (CafEraria). 

 Philiifinamii varanes, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Dlurn. Lep.ll. p. 311. n. 2 (1850) (pt. ; 



CafEraria) ; Trim., Rhnj,. Afr. Auxir. p. 181. n. 105 (1862—66) {syn. pro p. ; Knjsna ; Natal; 



Pt. Elizabeth ; King Williamstown ; Grahamstown). 

 Palla varanes, Staudinger, Erot. Tutif. p. 174. t. 60 (1886) (pt. ; Natal). 

 Chara.re.f raranes, Trimen & Bowker, .S. Afr. Butt. I. p. 321. n. 105 (1887) (pt.); Butl., Journ. Linn 



S<ic. Lonil. XXV. p. 400. n. 149 (1896) (pi); Dist., Ann. ihuj. N. H. (7). I. p. 51 (1898) 



(Barbertou) ; Aurir., Konigl. Sv. Aknd. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 241. n. 56 (1899) (pt.). 

 Chara-ies fulreseeiis, Karsch {non Aurivillius, 1891), Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XXXVIII. p. 192. n. 57 



(1893) (sub itynim.) ; Auriv., Ent. Tiihlr. XV. p. 312. n. 202 (1894) (sub synun.). 



5 ? . White colour of base of forewing reduced to a small patch at internal 

 margin which seldom extends to M^, distally never extending to discal tawny 

 chestnut patches ; on hindwing the white area does not quite reach the bent of 

 vein R^ Three forms according to coloration of underside : — 



a\ 



c? ¥ . Underside russet or pale tawny olive in S , clay colour or greenish olive in 



"^ ^ (Syp<^ of subspecies, from Natal), ape.x: of cell of forewing and outer marginal area 



of both wings conspicuously glossy ; veins prominently green ; discal line heavy, 



bordered with greyish white outwardly, bars in basal half feebly marked, partly 



absent, markings in outer region also partly obliterate or vestigial. 



This form is common enough in Natal; we possess, however, only one specimen 

 from there with date (Durban, March). A second dated specimen (?) from 

 Zululand, Makuri Hill, was caught in May ; it has the forewing more extended 

 white than our Natal specimens have, but agrees in the greenish olive tint of the 

 underside with a number of ¥ ? from that country. 

 bK 

 i. Underside pale clayish ochreous in basal half, bars prominent, ocelli of 

 hindwing all well marked, as are the other markings of the marginal area. 

 iSome specimens of the male sex only from Natal, without date of capture. 

 c\ 



6 ¥ . Underside irregularly irrorated all over with black scaling, apex of cell of 

 forewing devoid of black scales (or almost so), bars generally rather heavy, as are 

 the postdiscal sjiots of forewing and ocellate patches of hindwing, ? paler in ground 

 colour than S , less tawny. 



A series of individuals of both sexes from Natal and Cajie Colony; no dates. 



Hab. Cape Colony : Natal ; Zululand ; Transvaal. 



The larva and pupa are described by Mr. Trimen, I.e., as follows : — 



" Larva. Dull bluish-green above ; i)ale whitish-green beneath, irrorated 



with very minute silvery dots. On the sixth, eighth, and tenth segments, a j)ale- 

 ochreous, somewhat crescentic, mark cm the back, -that on the tenth segment verv 



