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Dar-es-Salaam. Rhodesia : Nambooma, TJpp. Zambesi, beginning of April 1898, 

 Njoko, April 1898 (Coryndon). Transvaal : Rnstenburg, ix. x. '94 (Ayres). Angola : 

 Cnbal R., iii. '99 (Penrice). 



One of the Nambooma specimens is figured in Nov. Zool. VI. t. VIII. f. 6 ; 

 the d individuals from that place, as well as the Njoko example, have the underside 

 very much variegated ; the ? , figured on the same plate, which Mr. Coryndon 

 obtained in jiractically the same district, has the underaide more uniform 'in colour. 

 Our two specimens from Somaliland, Walenso, are the same in size as $-i. picta. 



B. Forewing above : marginal spots small, or absent ; if large, there is only 

 one (or no) postdiscal spot. 



d. Forewing above with two, rather large, postdiscal spots ; underside clayish 



chocolate, very uniform in colour ; wings broad, resembling in shape those 

 of Ck. ethalion, but are larger. 4. c?-f. cytila Rothsch., f. nov. 



We received a series of this peculiar form from near Bandawe, Nyassaland, 

 some of them being caught in April, and also a few specimens from Ft. Abercorn, 

 Nyassaland. Together with them came the/emale form represented on Plate XII. 

 f. 7, which has precisely the same underside as regards the tint of the ground 

 colour. Several specimens from Angola, caught by Mr. Penrice (Kuhiriri R. and 

 Longa R., Nov. '99), as well as specimens from Zomba in Mr. Adams's collection, 

 agree on the npperside fairly well with this form, but have the underside 

 flushed with a strong vinaceous tint, the forewing being, moreover, more variegated. 

 With these S S come two kinds of ? ? , which are mentioned under forms 13 and 13. 



e. Forewing above with one or no postdiscal spot, or ground colour of under- 



side not uniformly clayish chestnut. 

 a^ Basal two-thirds of underside almost white. Upperaide : forewing with 

 three dots along costal edge, one or the other of them often absent, 

 seldom all wanting; marginal dots, if marked, very small; admarginal 

 spots of hindwing not centred red. 5. c?-f. catochroiis. 



Charaxes ephyra ah. catochrous Staudinger, Iris IX. p. 218 (1896). 



This is the form of which Dr. Butler says : " Mr. Godart's description (of 

 ephyra) is sufficiently good to identify the species with certainty." However, 

 Godart's description seems to us to apply much better to form 8. 



In the Tring Mnsenm from : Cameroons ; Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, 

 V. and vi. (Dr. Roth) ; Leupoldville, Congo ; Uuyoro : Fajao, 15. and 16. vii. '97, 

 Wakibara, 23. vii. '97, Karunga, Kyanika, Bulamwezi, 20. iii. '97 ; Masindi, 28. vii. 

 '97 (Dr. Ansorge). 



b^. Basal two-thirds of underside not white, the median interspaces always 



much darker in tint ; discal interspaces of underside at outside of 



median bars and part of submedian intersjmces more or less pale 



clay colour, sometimes almost grey. 



a^. Marginal spots of forewing above absent or small ; ground colour of 



underside broccoli brown. (5. 6-i. hollandi. 



Ch. hollamli Butler, I.e. 



A common West African f<^irm, occurring from Sierra Leone to the Congo and 

 British E. Africa ; dated specimens in the Tring Museum from : Ran, Nandi 

 country, 14. iii. '98, and Kabras, Uganda Protectorate, 13. xii. '96 (Dr. Ansorge) ; 

 AV^arri, Niger Coast Protectorate, 22. viii. '97 ; Kumasi to Cape Coast Castle, iv. '99 



