252 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Mar. 19, 



which I now have some doubt. We received the male from Sulim 

 bin Najimb, Konde, where it was obtained by Mr. E,. Crawshay. 

 It differs from the typical form in the more falcate character of the 

 primaries (particularly in the female), the lighter, redder basal area 

 of the wings above, the clearer colouring of the postmeclian tawny 

 band, and the smaller black spots which traverse it ; the mar- 

 ginal markings on all the wings extended inwards so as to form 

 a broad band, divided into truncated ovoid tawny spots in the 

 primaries and in the secondaries bnrely separated by the black veins 

 into eight spots the three first tawny, bell-shaped or obconical, 

 slightly tipped at the outer angles with white, the fourth white 

 with orange fold, the fifth and sixth similarly coloured but quad- 

 rate internally, the two last green varied with white and lavender, 

 connate in the female ; all the tawny spots below larger and of a 

 more salmon tint, the grey-greenish markings on basal area with 

 more slender w r hite margins. Expanse of wings, <5 3 inches 3 lines ; 

 $ 3 inches 11 lines. 



I think that this may prove to beat least a distinct race, having a 

 restricted range in British Central Africa, and therefore I propose 

 to call it var. laticinctus. We received a third example in the 

 Salvin and Godman collection. 



7. CHARAXES DRUCEANUS. 



cJ . Charaxes druceanus, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 4 (Oct. 1869) ; 

 Lep. Exot. p. 26, pi. x. fig. 4. 



2 , Zomba. 



The female is slightly larger and has a broader tawny band than 

 the male. 



8. CHARAXES POLLUX. 



Papilio pollux, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxxvii. figs. E, F (1776). 

 3 , Zomba. 



9. CHARAXES MACCLOUNII, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 1.) 



c? . Allied to C. lasti : primaries with less arched costa, less 

 sinuated outer margin, and shorter inner margin ; secondaries 

 strongly produced at anal angle, with only two tails, the first of 

 which (at extremity of third median branch) is a mere denticle, the 

 second (at extremity of first median branch) barely half the length 

 of that in C. lasti ; colouring deeper throughout, with all the black 

 markings considerably heavier, the discal spots of primaries con- 

 tinued to below first median branch, those of secondaries forming 

 a continuous tapering submarginal band ; under surface altogether 

 more ochreous than in C. lasti, the markings mostly ferruginous, 

 rhe black-bordered grey markings on interno-median area of pri- 

 maries reduced in size, the silver band of secondaries widened out 

 as in C. cyntliia. Expanse of wings 80 millim. 



$ . Extremely like Mr. Trimen's figure of C. lasti $ (P. Z. S. 

 1894, pi. v. fig. 6), but altogether deeper in colour, the black 

 markings heavier, the macular submarginal band much wider, 

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