ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 387 



(and especially the long median one common to Loth fore and hind 

 wings) are in both sexes much straighter and more continuous than 

 in either Cithccron or AljJ^iares — their white edgings (in the $ 

 throughout, and in the $ as regards the hind-wings and sub-basal 

 part of the fore-wings) approximate Violctta more to JCipharcs. This 

 remark does not apply to the under side of the fore-wings in the $ 

 Violetta, where the broad white band externally bounding the median 

 blue-black stria is very like that found in the $ Cithmron. The con- 

 siderably smaller size of both sexes in comparison with the two large 

 allies in question is an important distinction of Violctta. 



Locality of Charaxes Violctta. 



1. South Africa. 



H, Delagoa Bay (? Mrs. Monteiro). 



384. (17.) Charaxes Azota, Hewitson. 



? Philognoma Azota, Hewits., Ent. M. Mag., xiv. p. 82 (1877); and 

 (j Charaxes Azota, op. cit., p. 181 (1878). 



" Upper side. — Male black. Both wings with the outer margin 

 broadly bright brick-red (colour of C. Protocka). Anterior wing with 

 the costal margin rufous, the band of the outer margin marked by 

 black spots, and divided as it reaches the apex into two bands of 

 separate spots, one of which is on the margin. Posterior wing 

 dentated, the red mai-gin covering half the wing, and marked near the 

 anal angle by two minute black spots centred with white. 



" Under side. — Eed-brown. Both wings with a submarginal series of 

 minute white spots. Anterior wing with four bands in the cell and a 

 spot beyond it ; crossed at the middle by a band of glossy colour bor- 

 dered with brown, the apex marked by two white spots. Posterior 

 wing crossed near the base by a band of red-brown, and at the middle 

 and beyond it by broad glossy bands. 



" Exp. 3y5^ inches. 



*' This fine species was taken by Mr. Thelwall at Nyassa. It is 

 closely allied to C. Protocka, and is the ^ of a butterfly from the 

 collection of the Mouteiros, which (having lost the posterior part of the 

 hind-wings) I described as Philogrioma Azota." — (Hewitson, loc. cit.) 



" Up)per side. — Female dark brown. Both wings crossed by a very 

 broad white band tinted with lilac, commencing on the anterior wing 

 at the third median nervule, where it is tinted with orange, and becom- 

 ing broader in the posterior wing, and reaching to the abdominal fold. 

 Both wings with the outer margin broadly rufous. Anterior wing with 

 a bifid orange spot near the middle of the costal margin, and a broad 

 submarginal rufous band. Posterior wing with one tail. 



" Under side. — Rufous-brown. Both wings crossed as above by a 

 common band, but narrower, tinted with yellow, and marked near its 



