1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 255 



15. CHAR AXES ETHALION. 



2 . Charaxes ethalion, Boisdaval, Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 593 

 (1847). 



cf , Zomba. 



The male of this species, though probably often confounded with 

 those of C. hollandi and Q. alladinis, is common in collections. 



16. CHARAXES 



2 as c? . Charaxes phceus, Hevvitson, Ent. Month. Mag. 1877, 

 vol. xiv. p. 82. 



rf . Charaxes alladinis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 648. 



Now that we have received the type of C. alladinis in the 

 God man and Salvin series, 1 find that my former identification of 

 the male was incorrect; the latter is a West- African insect with 

 the basal area of the primaries bronze-greenish, marginal spots of 

 the same colour ; secondaries with white subinarginal spots and a 

 discal luuulate green streak: it appears to inhabit the Cameroons. 

 The male described by me in 1893 is undoubtedly that sex of 

 C. phceus. 



3 , Zomba. 



It is a curious thing that not only did Hewitson describe and 

 Mrs. Mouteiro figure two females as sexes of C. phceus 1 , but Dewitz 

 did the same thing in his attempt to figure the sexes of C. alladinis. 

 I would propose the name of Charaxes rosce for Hewitson's sup- 

 posed female of C. phceus (which is well described by Mr. Trimen), 

 its male doubtless would nearly resemble that sex of C. etheocles. 



It is extremely probable that Charaxes alladinis $ of Dewitz 

 (Nova Acta Leop .-Carol. Akad. Naturf. i. pi. xvii. fig. 9, 1887) is 

 only a slight variety of (7. rosce $ ; but his Charaxes alladinis 3 

 (fig. 8) is a female allied to C. ethalion and may be called C. deivitzi, 

 it is perfectly distinct from C. alladinis. Charaxes ephyra, var., 

 Dewitz (figs. 10-11), are probably the same as Mr. Trimen's 

 recently described Charaxes manica, from which the female scarcely 

 differs excepting on the apical border of the primaries : at any 

 ' rate, without comparing specimens of both species, it would be 

 unsafe to pronounce them distinct. 



17. CHARAXES WHYTEI. (Plate XV. fig. 3, $ .) 



cJ . Charaxes whytei, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 649, pi. Ix. fig. 2. 



Charaxes selousi, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 45, pi. vi. fig. 10. 



. Above purplish black, browner on basal area ; crossed beyond 

 the middle by a broad pure white belt, which, however, is repre- 

 sented above the median vein of primaries by three elongated 

 white spots ; five other spots, sometimes lunate, in an angular 

 series between the same belt and the costa, commencing in the 

 second median interspace : secondaries with two spots immediately 

 beyond and almost touching the belt upon the subcostal and radial 



1 Curiously enough Mr. Trimen has failed to discover this error, which he 

 has repeated in his South-African Butterflies,' vol. i. p. 344. 



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