(403 ) 

 internal angle very variable in extent, sometimes altogether replaced by tawny. - 



Hintlwing : discal luuiform bars generally clearly defined, but sometimes partly 

 obliterated ; basal costal bar indistinct ; upper tail 3 to 6 mm. long, ronuded at 

 tip, second 1 to 2i mm. 



Length of forewing : tJ, 38 — 42 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 42—50 mm. 



Clasper slender, the ridge which forms the inner edge of the hook continued on 

 to the inner surface of the clasper, here situated much closer to the ventral than the 

 dorsal edge of the clasper ; penis curved before end, with the trace of a dorsal tooth 

 at the bent, without other armature ; penis-funnel not triangular, as broad at apex 

 nearly as at base, slightly narrowed before apex, apical edge turned downwards, 

 rounded, not narrowed to a point ; the processes of the tenth tergite are short. 



Vein D^ of hiudwing in both sexes about midway between M' and M'- PC of 

 c? and especially of ? with a short spur. 



Hah. Delagoa Bay to Nyassalaud and Brit. E. Africa. In the Tring Museum 

 from: Delagoa Bay, 16 <? c?, 4 ? ? ; Lauderdale, Brit. Cent. Afr., 1 c? ; Ghipaika. 

 Estate, near Bandawe, Brit. C. Afr., 3 <? <?, 1 ? (Watkinson) ; Zomba, Brit. C. 

 Afr., December, 1895, 1 cJ, 1 ? (Dr. Percy Kendall) ; Parumbira, Lake Nyassa, 

 German E. Afr., 8. xi. 93 and 9. xi. 93, 3 c? c? (Dr. Ansorge) ; German E. Afr., 1 ? ; 

 Taveta, Brit. E. Afr., July 1891, 1 S. Mombasa, Brit. E. Afr., in coll. Grose- 

 Smith ; Dar-es-Salaam in Berlin Mus. and coll. Staudinger ; Majuji, N. Usegua, 

 end of May, in Berl. Mus. A long series from Zomba in H. J. Adams's collection. 



A ? in the Tring Museum without exact locality, said to be from German East 

 Africa, has the black postdisco-submarginal bands of both wings very much reduced ; 

 on forewing there is, instead of a continuous band, a series of minute dots from 

 SC* to M^, followed by two somewhat larger spots, while on the hindwing the band 

 is not interrupted, but its postdiscal portion is replaced by orange, so that the black 

 band is only 3 mm. wide between veins ; the band stops costally at SC". 



We do not agree with Dr. Butler that the specimens from the various localities 

 are subspecifically separable. The characters adduced by Dr. Butler as separating 

 the individuals from Nyassalaud from those from Delagoa Bay do not hold good ; 

 Dr. Butler, when describing w/asajia in 1895, and again when writing the note on 

 azota, ni/asana and calliclea in his revision of the genus in 1896, had only one c? 

 from Delagoa Bay for comparison. Our series of 16 males from that locality proves 

 that the number and size of the black markings within the orange bands of the 

 upperside are individually very variable ; in some of the specimens the series of 

 spots reaches on the forewing down to SM^, while in others it stops at R', while 

 others again are intermediate. 



When Mr. Grose-Smith described calliclea as a distinct species, he had 

 overlooked that the insect had already received the name o{ azota by Hewitson. 



p. S, Forewing above without postdiscal orange spots, upper admargiual dots 

 very small or absent ; ? , postdiscal spots of forewing above white or 

 creamy white. 



44. Charaxes protoclea. 



Charaxes protoclea Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 260. n. 12 (1850) (Casamance) ; Butl., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lmul. p. G27. n. 13 (1865) ; Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leap. Car. Ac. Nalurf. L. 4. p. 371 

 (1887) (Mukenge, April) ; Capronn., C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXXIII. p. 126. n. 71 (1889) 



