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faint and only found in full-grown specimens. A thin, sinuated, silvery lateral 

 stripe. Head flat, armed with four backward-sloping, recurved, somewhat serrated 

 horns, bright turquoise-blne beneath, and in young sjiecimens edged with reddish. 

 Anal segment flattened, bifid. Feeds on a species of Rims (]irobably R. Ineviguta). 



" Pnpa. Pellucid blue-green with a delicate ]ilum-liiie bloom. On each side 



of abdomen a row of six black dots. On anal pedicel two pairs of small yellowish 

 tubercles, and a similar pair ou ventral surface, close to pedicel, facing towards the 

 head." 



Mr. Trimen continues to say: — "This very fine butterfly is common in the 

 wooded parts of South Africa, and is very conspicuous on the wing. At rest, it is 

 by no means easy to detect, its undersurface colouring being so like faded or 

 withered leaves, and its accustomed seat being on the stems or among the branches. 

 Its flight is not so rapid as that of several of its near allies, and it often descends to 

 sport about low trees and even bushes. The exuding sap from wounds of trees is 

 very attractive to it ; and I once enticed a specimen by honey smeared on a trunk 

 at Plettenberg Bay. The species seems to be out during every month of the year, 

 but is numerous only during the warmer season. 



" The South African examples difler from those I have examined from different 

 parts of Tropical Africa in having the basal white of the forewing so much restricted. 

 They are, however, variable in this particular, some females exhibiting a small 

 inner-marginal white patch, extending as far as median nervnre ; but none that I 

 have seen present nearly so much white as is found in specimens from ('ape Coast 

 Castle and Sierra Leone on the West Coast, or Quilimane and Zambesi on the East 

 Coast, in which, in both sexes, the white largely invades the discoidal cell and in 

 the ? nearly fills it. In the hindwing, also, tlie wliite in the Tropical examples is 

 extended to a jioint considerably nearer anal angle." 



Ij. Ch. varanes vologeses. 



Philoijniima varanrx, Doubled.iy, Westw. & Hew., Geii. Diiini. Lep. p. 311. n. 2 (1850) (pt. ; Sierra 



Leone ; Ashanti) ; Butl., Cut. Diiini. Lep. dexrr. hy Fohr. p. 50. n. 3 (1869) (S. Leone) ; Plotz, 



Stett. Eut. Ziit. XLI. p. 194. n. 107 (1880) (Victoria, Gamer., VL VIII.) ; Capronn., C. R. Sac. 



Em. Beh/. XXXIII. p. 125. n. 63 (1889; (Kassai) ; Smith, Pruc. Zonl. Sue. Loud. p. 472. n. 90 



(1890) (Aruwirai); Godm. & Salv., in Jameson, Stony i,f Rmr Ohimn p. 441. n. 90(1890) 



(Congo) ; Hamps., Ann. Mag. A'. LI. (6). VII. p. 181 (1891) (Sabaki E.) ; Sharpe, Proc. Znol. 



Soc. Loml. p. 341. n. 47 (1894). 

 Palla vologrses Mabille, Bull. Sue. Zool. France I. p. 280 (1876) (Congo ; Landana). 

 Palla varam-i Kirby, Cut. Diurii. Lep. p. 274. n. I! (1871) (pt.) ; Stand., E.rot. Tag/, p. 174 (1886) 



(pt.); Butl., Ann. .Vag. X. H. (6). VII. p. 42. n. 13 (1891) (E. Afr.) : Auri'v., Ent. Tidskr. 



Xn. p. 216. n. 148 (1891) (pt. ; Cameroons, Gaboon) j Holl., Proc. N. S. Nat. Mits. XVI. 



p. .571 (18U3) (Freetown) ; Butl., Pro,: Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 650. n. 26 (1893) (Lake Mweri ; 



Zomba, January) ; id., I.e. p. 562. n. 18 (1894) (Brit. E. Atr. I ; Reb. & Rogenh.. in Baumann, 



.yamiihmd zur Mlqiielle p. 3.32. n. 95 (1894) (Mwansa ; Ufiomi) ; Holl., !.c. XVIII. p. 26* 



(1895) (E. Afr.) ; Lanz, Iris IX. p. 143 (1896) (Parumbira, Oct.). 

 Chara.ies raranen, Trimen & Bowker, S. Afr. Butt. I, p. 321. n. 105 (1887) (pt.) ; Trim., Pvoe. Zonl. 



Soc. Lond. p. 39. n. 59 (1894) (Manicai Mimeni) : Biitl.. ./oui-n. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 400. 



n. 149 (1896) (pt.) ; id., Ami. May. X. IL (6). XVIII. p. 69. n. 7 (1896) (Nyassa) ; id., Proc. 



Zuol. Soc. Loml. p. 256. n. 21 (1898) (Zomba); id., I.e. p. 397. n. 11 (1898) (Brit. C. Afr.) ; 



Auriv., Kongl. Sr. Vet. Akad. Hand!. XXXL 5. p. 241. n. 56 (1899) (pt.). 

 Palla (Chnra.rex) varaties, Schaus & Clements, Sierra Leone Lep. p. 9 (1893) (S. Leone). 



6 ?. White area of forewing aboce occupying at least lialf the cell, extending 

 beyond M- and coming posteriorly near the chocolate tawny outer area or touching 



