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white patches often absent from hindwing and occasionally obscnre also on fore- 

 wing : ground varying in tint from clay colour to clayish drab. Forewing : 



postdiscal interspaces M^— SM^ mostly white, the other postdiscal interspaces less 

 pale, not so prominent as in ?-£ etheocles ; submarginal interspaces M^ — SM^ 

 greyish white, forming a patch which resembles the number 3, the other sub- 

 marginal interspaces less pale, not strongly arched ; black postdiscal double patch 

 M^— SM' as in 9-f. etheocles, but the preceding patches not so well marked as 



in that form. Hindwing : postdiscal bicolourons halfmoons smaller than in ? -f 



etheocles, the postdiscal bars at their distal side not enlarged to patches. 



There are four principal forms of the ? -sex according to the development of the 

 band of the upperside : 



a. Discal and postdiscal spots and band white, shaded with blue. 



b. Upper spots of forewing bnif. 



c. Discal and postdiscal spots R'— M^ not completely separated (PI. XII. 



f. 4). Chipaika Estate, Bandawe, Nyassaland, 17. iv. '99. 



d. Band and spots pale blue (PI. XII. f 6), except upper postdiscal spots. 



Taveta (July) ; Zambesi. 



Forms a aad b are the ordinary ones which are in the Tring Museum from 

 Natal, Nyassaland, Delagoa Bay, and Taveta. 



Length of forewing : cj, 29 — 35 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 38—42 mm. 



The penis differs from that of Ch. etheocles constantly in the series of teeth 

 not turning towards the upperside, but remaining ventro-lateral (PI. VIII. f 19), the 

 most distal teeth are, therefore, not visible in a view of the penis from the right side. 



Hab. Cape Colony, Natal to British East Africa. In the Tring Museum 

 32 3S, 14 ? ? from: Natal, Pinetown {Si, ? ?); Rikatia, Delagoa Bay {<Si, 

 ? ?); Lauderdale, Bandawe, Zomba (xii.), N3'a8saland (<?(?, ?); Chipaika Estate, 

 Bandawe (F. Watkinson) ; Tanganyika {6S) : Dar-es-Salaam (c?) ; Taveta, vi. vii. 

 (c?c?, ? ?) ; Kibwezi, Brit. E. Afr., 7. iv. '94 (c?) (Dr. Ansorge). 



" I met with this interesting Charaxes" says Dr. Trimen, I.e., " sparingly at 

 Port Natal in January and February 1867, but succeeded in capturing female 

 examples only. One of the latter was seated quite on the bare ground, and had 

 evidently only just emerged from the chrysalis. I was attracted to the spot by 

 seeing her flutter downward from a neighbouring tree. Colonel Bowker found both 

 sexes on the wing in the same locality in August 1878. I believe that I noticed a 

 $ in the edge of the wood at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, as long ago as 1858, and 

 Mr. Streatfeild, C.M.G., informed me that he took the species in the George district 

 in 1877, and in Kaffraria Proper in 1878." 



.;'. Penis with the series of teeth turning dorsad distally ; ? , forewing above 

 with white band curved, or basal area blue, or band as in ethalion, but 

 cell with apical spot. 



74. Charaxes etheocles (Nov. Zool. VI. t. VIII. f 6. (?. 7. ? ; and Nov. 

 ZooL. VIL t. 12. f. 5. 7. 8. ? ?). 



? . Papilio Eques Adiiviis etheocles Cramer, Pajj. Exot. II. p. 34. t. 119. f. D. E (1777). 

 (J. Nymphalis ephyra Godart, En. MM. IX. p. 355. n. 18 (1823). 



(J. Bodi/ above olive black, with a greenish tint, white dots on head and 

 pronotum prominent ; below varying from clayish buff to creamy white. 



