CHARAXES. 179 



Mr. Trimen, in his " Rhopalocera Africa? Australis" (p. 166), 

 makes the following remarks on the habits of the South African 

 species of Charaxes : " All, as far as is known at present, are 

 inhabitants of woods, where they delight to settle on the stems 

 or lofty twigs of timber-trees, frequently darting from their 

 resting-places, and sporting about with a rapidity which might be 

 inferred from their massive thorax, and strong, cleanly cut 

 wings. Again and again, even when roughly scared from their 

 seat, will they return to the same position. They do not 

 appear to relish the honey of flowers, but the moisture that 

 exudes from the bark of trees forms their favourite food. Oc- 

 casionally, too, they are attracted to earth by some damp 

 substance, and the more strongly-scented such substance be, 

 the more likely are they to settle on it. The males are always 

 the higher, more rapid, and frequent flyers, and females are 

 consequently the oftener captured, though anything but slow 

 in their movements." However, in his recently-publishec 

 " South African Butterflies," he mentions that the species o: 

 Charaxes may sometimes be attracted by honey, or by th< 

 sweet compound called " sugar," which English entomologist: 

 use to attract Moths ; and that many of the smaller species an 

 in the habit of frequenting flowers. 



THE PASHA WITH TWO TAILS. CHARAXES JASIUS. 

 {Plate XXVI.) 



Papilio j'asius, Linn., Syst. Nat. (xii.), i. (2), errata (1767); 

 Drury, 111. Exot. Ins., i., pi. 1, fig. 1 (1773); Esper, 

 Schmett., i. (2), p. 29, pi. 99, figs. 1, 2, p. 61, pi. 104, 

 figs. 2-8 (1790 ? ). 



Papilio jason, Linn., Syst. Nat. (xii.), i. (2), p. 749, no. 

 26 (1767); nee Syst. Nat. (x.) i., p. 485, no. 171 

 (1758); Cramer, Pap. Exot, ii., pi. 186, figs. A. B. 

 (1777); iv., pi. 329, figs. A. B (1780). 



