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W'i —Euxanthe tiherius. Smith. Coast hills. Tliis species is never common 

 and is extremely local. It is found only in dense forest. It is a mao-ni- 

 fieent insect. It generally settles on sai^lings iinder the shade of large 

 trees, and its flight is rather slow as a rule. 



116. — Charaxes brutus, Cram. Generally distributed. 



117. — Charaxes castor. Cram. Coast district. Taita, Taveta. Not uncommon. 

 The larva feeds on Afzelia caunzensis, which is known to the Swahilis as 

 Bambakofi. The head has four divergent horns and is gx'een, with the 

 liorns tipped witli red, the outer ones with a yellow stripe on the out- 

 side. The body is green with a yellow spiracular stripe and is covered 

 with small yellow tubercles. It has a round greenish-yellow spot with a 

 black centre on the seventh segment, and a similar more irregidar spot 

 on the ninth segment, the latter being sometimes obsolete. The piipa is 

 bluish-green with white markings. The egg is si^herical witli the toj) 

 slightly concave ; it is yellow with a dark brown ring roimd the top. 



118. — Charaxes saturnus, Btitl. Coast district. Taita, Taveta. Not uncommon 

 in some years. The larva is similar to that of Ch. castor, but has a 

 smoother ajjpearance, and tlie large dorsal spots have the centre liluish- 

 green instead of black. The piipa has the white markings much less 

 developed. 



119. — Charaxes hansali, Feld. Taita. Ukanibani. I have only taken a few of 

 this rare species. 



120. — Charaxes polhtx. Cram. Taita. N Kikvi3'u. Not uncommon. The larva 

 is green with a small round rufoiis spot on tlie back of the seventh 

 segment, and the tips of the horns are bluish. 



121. — Charaxes tareteiisis, Eothschild and Jordan. I have only obtained a 

 single specimen of this rare form which was reared from a larva found 

 at Jilore on the same kind of tree as that of Ch. castor. The larva is 

 green with an indistinct triangular mark on the seventh segment, the 

 apex pointing towards the tail. The pupa is dark green with broad 

 bright yellow spots and bands. 



122.— Charaxes boueti lasti. Smith. I have only taken this species in the Coast 

 district, where I have found it fairly common. It is not quite so active 

 as most species of the genus, and females are not so scarce as in some 

 species, e.g., Ch. etheocles. 



123. — Charaxes azota. Hew. Coast hills. Taveta. This fine species is rather 

 uncommon. The larva is of the usual Charaxes shape. The colour is 

 green, the head being bordered with brown. It has an orange spiracular 

 stripe, the tubercles being more orange and the green of the body has a 

 somewhat mottled appearance which changes before pupation into dull 

 yellow, with a row of large lateral ill-defined brown spots. Tlie dorsal 

 spot on the seventh segment is large and triangular witli tlie apex 

 pointing backward. It is orange l)rown. The pupa is pinkish with 

 chocolate broAvn mai'kings. 



