266 Dr. A. G. Butler on a new Species of Charaxes. 
XLIV.—Description of a new Species of the Butterfly Genus 
Charaxes. By Artaur G. Buruer, Ph.D., F.LS., 
F.Z.8., &e. : 
For many years a species of the genus Charaxes has been 
confounded with the well-known C. ethalion of Natal and 
Delagoa Bay. As I have recently been through the whole 
of the literature relating to the genus and have failed to 
identify it, I now propose to describe it as 
Charaxes Hollandit, sp. n. 
g. Chiefly differs from C. ethalion $ (ephyra, Godt.) in 
the deeper excavation of the outer margin of the primaries 
and the longer abdominal margin of the secondaries ; on the 
under surface, however, the wings are much richer in 
colouring, the black markings much more heavily delineated, 
and the central belt washed with silvery glaucous; the spots 
beyond this belt are also darker and, on the primaries, more 
numerous. 
Expanse of wings 72 millim. 
9. Above far more like a dwarfed female of C. ¢mperialis 
than like C. ethalion ; blue-black, the primaries with three 
small lilacine spots in a triangle beyond the cell, the apex of 
the triangle being directed obliquely downwards towards the 
base of the third median branch ; below these two increasing 
spots of the same colour in the median interspaces ; between 
the latter and the inner margin a bright blue band, con- 
stricted above the submedian vein; nearer to the outer 
margin a biangulated almost S-shaped series of seven spots, 
of which the upper six are lilacine with white centres and 
the seventh bright blue; central belt of secondaries bright 
blue; in other respects tolerably close to C. ethalion: below 
the wings have a glaucous gloss, especially on the paler 
bands, and in some respects the pattern more nearly resembles 
that of C. etheocles. 
Expanse of wings 82 millim. 
Sierra Leone. 
I have named this pretty little species after my valued 
friend Dr. Holland, of Pittsburg, whose many important 
contributions to our knowledge of the Lepidopterous fauna of 
West Africa are widely known. 
