( 44() ) 



Underside reddish chocolate, bars pale grey with thin black and white borders, 

 interspaces between them narrower than in safur?ii(s, lilack onter borders of median 



bars of fore- and hindwing mneli heavier than the jiroximal Iwrders.. -Forewing : 



discal bars SC* — M^ heavier than in saturnus, larger than the small ochraceous, 



])ostdiscal spots, black postdiscal spots (bars) SC* — M' obsolete or small. 



Hindwing : reddish chocolate interspaces on abdominal fold very thin, except that 

 near basal alidominal margin ; basal to median costal liars fnsed, resp. touching 

 each other ; postdiscal reddish chocolate patches smaller than in saturnus, not so 

 wide as the white discal band ; admarginal interspaces with yellow spots which are 

 widely separated, at least the upper ones ; edge of wing bluntly dentate, tails 

 shorter and broader than in saturnus, npper tail 2 to 'i mm. long, second 4 mm. 



Length of forewing : c?, 38 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 45 mm. 



Hab. Gape Colony. In the Tring Museum 1 (?. 



" This is the only South-African Charares known to inhabit the open 

 monntainous western tracts of the Cape Colony," says Dr. Triinen, l.r. " Specimens 

 have reached me from Genadendal (Rev. G. Hettarsch) and Montagu (Mr. L. Taats), 

 and I noticed it in Bain's Kloof in January 1876. Having heard from 

 Dr. D. R. Kannemeyer that the species occurred abundantly at Montagu, I visited 

 that locality in January 1876, but did not succeed in taking any examples, 

 although I saw four during my two days' sta}'. I found that, as my 

 correspondent reported, the butterfly haunted the ' Wagenboom ' (^Protea 

 grandiflora), sitting close until accidentally disturbed, when it darted away with 

 great rapidity, and would settle on some distant bush of the ' Wagenboom,' not 

 returning to its former station, as is the habit of so many species of Charaxes. 

 Dr. Kannemeyer, however, who had a very much more intimate acijuaintance with 

 pelias than I enjoyed, noted that it commonly showed a preference for some 

 particular twig, generally a withered one ; it was most prevalent at the end of 

 November and beginning of December. Mr. Taats took it, in the same locality, 

 ' flying about willows,' February. I think it very proliable that the larva feeds 

 on the Wagenboom, and that the butterfly will be found all through the mountainous 

 country where that fine shrnb or small tree prevails." 



f. Discal band of uppers ide obscurely indicated or absent. 

 k"^. Hindwing with small blue postdiscal spots above. 



61. Charaxes jason. 



Papilio Eques Achivus jason Linn^, Syst. Nal. ed. XII. p. 749. n. 26 (1767) (Barbaria) ; Urury, 



Jlluatr. Ex. Ins. I. p. 1. t. 1. f. 1. 2. and Index (1772) (Smyrna); Cramer, Pap. Exot. II. p. 1.36. 



t. 186. f. A. B (1777) (Smyrna) ; Stoll, in Cramer, Pap. E.rnt. IV. p. 78. t. 329. f. a. u. ? 



(1782) (Smyrna"). 

 Piijiiliii Eijuia .[(liiriisjasius Linnd, I.e. (Errata) ; Onomal. Hist. Niit.Vl. p. 80 (1776) ; Fabr., Si/nt. 



Ent. p. 449. n. 29. (177.5) (ayn. ex parte ; Barbaria) ; Goeze, Enl. Bri/tr. III. 1. p. 60. n. 26 



(1779) (pt.) ; Fabr., Spec. Ihk. II. p. 10. n. 40 (1781) (syn. ex parte; Barbaria) ; Fabr., .!/««(. 



Jus. II. p. I'l. n. 44 (1787) ; Cyrillo, Enl. Xaipol. Spec. prim. t. 2. f. 1 (1787) ; Herbst, A'«(«rs. 



Srhmetl. IV. p. 67. n. 155. t. 64. f. 3. 4. 5 (1790) (Africa) ; Gmel, Sijst. Nat. I. 5. p. 2234. n. 26. 



(1790) (pt.) ; Giorna, Caleml. Ent. p. 99. (1791) (metam.) ; Petagna, InMit. Ent. II. p. 443 



n. 1. (1792) (Naples) ; Prunner, Lep. Petlemmt. p. 2. n. 2. (1798) ; Esper, Schmctt. I. t. 99. 



cont. 54. f. 1.2. cJ, $ t. 104. cont. 59. f. 2-7. metam. Siippl. TngM'lunett. p. 29. n. 187 and p. 61. 



(180.5) (Nizza, end of Sept., habits, metamorpb.). 

 Papilio (Ac!iiv,(.t)jaxii,x, MuUer, Natnm. V. 1. p. .'■|7:1 n. 26 (1776) (Barbaria). 



