388 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



iuternal border by several brown spots. Anterior wing with several 

 dark-brown spots in and below the cell, the bifid spot and rufous band 

 as above ; two pale spots near the apex, and a black spot at the anal 

 angle, and a submarginal series of white spots. 



" Exp. 3y^0- inches. 



" Hob. — Delagoa Bay : Monteiro." — (Hewitson, he. cit.) 



Not having seen any example of this species, I can only give the 

 above descriptions of the sexes by Hewitson, which were kindly fur- 

 nished to me by Mr. W. F. Kirby, and which I have also since had an 

 opportunity of consulting in the Journal in which they appeared. Mr. 

 Hewitson did not figui-e the insect, nor could I find it mentioned in 

 the printed Catalogue (1879) of his Collection. On consulting Mr. 

 Kirby, he wrote in reply (19th February 1888), "I am sorry to say 

 that Charaxcs Azota does not seem to be in his [Hewitson's] Collection. 

 As it was only described shortly before his death, I think it probable 

 that the specimens were never incorporated at all." 



C. Frotoclea, Feistli.,-^ to which Hewitson states Azota to be closely 

 allied, is a native of the Western Coast of North Tropical Africa ; it 

 was origiaally recorded from the Casamanza, but specimens in the 

 Hewitson Collection are ticketed Calabar and Camaroons. Another, 

 but much smaller. West- African ally is C. Anticlea, (Drury)," recorded 

 from Sierra Leone and (Hewitson Collection) as far south as Angola. 

 All three species appear to agree in the possession of a broad rufous or 

 brick-red hind-marginal border, — a feature which should readily distin- 

 guish C. Azota from any other hitherto known South- African Charaxes. 



Localities of Charaxes Azota.^ 



I. South Africa. 



H. " Delagoa Bay {Monteiro)." — Hewitson. 



IL Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Interior. — " Nyassa (Thelwall)." — Hewitson. 



^ A7in. Soc. Ent. de France, 1850, p. 260. 



" Jllustr. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xxvii. ff. 5, 6 (1782). 



3 I think that Charaxes Callidca, H. G. Smith (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1889, 

 p. 130), recorded from Mombasa, East Africa, is identical with 0. Azota, — judging from the 

 published description only. 



