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Length of forewing : cj, 42 — 46 mm. 

 ,, ,, ?, 47 — 54 mm. 



Hah. Augola to Niger, gradually merging into brutus hrutiis. In the Triug 

 Mnsenm 18 cjcj, 4 ? ? from: Congo: Leojmldville, Kassai, Upoto {ti/pe 1), Lnkolele: 

 two and four days' march from Ft. Beni, Great Forest, May 6. 8. '99 (Dr. Ansorge) ; 

 Angola ; Cameroons ; Old Calabar. 



Our specimens of Ch. brutus from Ran, Nandi, Uganda Protectorate, Fajao, and 

 Unyoro agree on the whole better with the following form than with angustus ; the 

 fresh specimens have the band of the upperside rather yellowish, somewhat like 

 somalicas. 



d. Ch. brutus brutus. 



Papilio Eques Achirus biiitiis Cramer, I.e. 



Papilio Equps Achivus cajus Herbst, I.e. 



Eriboea bruUi. (!), Hiibner, Verz. heh. Schmett. p. 46. n. 422 (1816-27). 



NymphaVi^ hrulliis (!), Godart, Euc. MM. IX. p. 351. n. 3. (1823) (Guinea). 



Chm-axcB biiilus, Doubleday, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Brit. JIus. I. p. HI (1844) (S. Leone) ; Butl., 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Loml. p. 625. n. 9 (1865) (S. Leone ; Guinea) ; Staud., E.rol. Tiigf. p. 160 



(1886) ; Mab., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (6). X. p. 23 (1890) (Assinie) ; Karscb, Enl. Nadu: XVUI. 



p. 176. n. 48 (1892) (Togo) ; id., Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XXXVIII. p. 190. n. 50 (1893) (Adeli, 



July to Sept.) ; Schaus & Clements, fiierra Leuiif Lepid. p. 8 (1893) ; Butl., Jouni. Linn. Soc. 



L'init. XXV. p. 350 n. 1 (1896) (pt. ; S. Leone ; Accra) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. 



XXXI. 5. p. 231. n. 1 (1899) (pt. ; S. Leone ; Ashanti ; Ivory Coast ; Togo ; Fernando Po). 

 Nymphalis brutus, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diuru. Lep. II. p. 308. n. 5 (18.50) (S. Leone ; 



Guinea) ; Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 268. n. 8 (1871). 



(? ?. Like brutus angustus, bnt band of forewing 5 to 8 mm. broad before SM" 

 in (J, T to 9 mm. in ? . 



There are seldom traces of pale blue admarginal spots on the hindwing. 



Hab. Sierra Leone to the Niger ; common. In the Tring Museum 10 c? c?, ? ? 

 from : Sierra Leone ; Coomassie ; Accra ; Manfd ; 0. Calabar. The specimens from 

 Cameroons belong mostly to angustus, or are intermediate. 



In the width of the band this form comes much nearer natalensis than does 

 angustus, though the latter is geographically intermediate. 



e. Ch. brutus natalensis. 



Nymphalis brutus, Trimen {non Cramer, 1779), Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. 173. n. 100 (1862) (Natal). 



Charaxes brutus var. Butler, Proc. Znol. Soc. Lund. p. 625 sub, n. 9 (1865). (Pt. Natal). 



Charaxes brutus, Gooch, Entoni. XIV. p. 6 (1881) (Natal ; larva noticed) ; Spiller, ibid. XV. p. 8 

 (1882) (Natal) ; Trim. & Bowk., S. Afr. Butt. I. p. 335. n. Ill (1887) (pt. ; Nat.il ; Caffraria) : 

 Montoiro, Delagoa Bay p. 220 (1891) ; Butl., Proc Zoul. Soc. Land. p. 253. n. 10 (1895) 

 (Zomba) ; id.. I.e. p. 720. n. 5 (1895) (Zomba) ; id., Joum. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 350. n. 1 

 (1896) (pt. ; Nat.-il ; Delag. Bay ; Zomba; KUimandjaro ; Taita) ; Dist., Ami. Mag. N. H. 

 (7). I. p. 51 (1898)) (Barberton). 



Chara.ces brutus var tuitalensis Staudinger, E.rot. Tagf. p. 169. (1886) (Natal) ; Lanz, Iris IX. p. 140. 

 (1896) (Parumbira, Tanganyika, October) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sr. Vet. Ah. Hnndl. XXXI. 5. p. 231. 

 sub n. 1 (1899) (KafFraria ; Natal ; Zambesi ; Delagoa B. ; Parumbira, Tanganyika). 



c?. Head and pronotum deep ferruginous, abdomen beneath orange in middle, 

 white at sides. 



Wings above, purjilish black, band white, sometimes cream colour, obviously 



edged with pale blue from M-' of forewing to (SM') of hindwing. Forewing : 



band broad behind, considerably narrowing costad, 8 to 10 mm. wide at SM-, 5 to 

 6 mm. at M", and 3 or 4 mm. between M' and M^ two upper spots often minute, 

 especially in Natal individuals ; marginal spots distinct, white, pro.ximally somewhat 



