From the ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OF NATUHAI, HISTOBY, 

 Ser. 6, Vol. xv., March 1895. 



On Charaxes azota of Hewitson, a rare Butterfly of which the 

 Type Specimen is not in Hewitson's Collection. By A. G. 

 BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



IN 1877 Mr. Hewitson described a female Charaxes under 

 the name Philognoma azota in the * Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine/ vol. xiv. p. 82. It was obtained at Delagoa Bay 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Monteiro, and was, apparently, so nearly 

 related to the female of Charaxes protoclea, that it could 

 hardly be expected that Mr. Hewitson, with his broad views 

 respecting the variability of Butterflies, would have con- 

 sidered it worthy of a name. However, the fact remains that 

 he did give it the appellation of Philognoma azota. 



The following year Mr. Hewitson, in the same volume of 

 the Magazine, described a form believed to be the male of 



