822 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Nov. 17, 



8. SAMANTA SIMONSI. 



Mycalesis simonsii, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. xix. p. 458 (1877). 



c? rf, Karonga plain, 1670 feet alt., N.W. coast of Lake 

 Nyasa, August 20th ; $ , Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika 

 Eoad, August 22nd, 1895. 



Said to be, without question, the dry-season form of 8. perspicua : 

 this is quite possible, inasmuch as all the specimens now sent 

 were obtained at the height of the dry season. The difference 

 between the two forms is one of colour rather than of pattern or 

 outline ; also, as might be expected, the ocelli are reduced in size. 

 The chief objection is that the nearly related S. eliasis is a native 

 of a humid country, and has no wet-season form corresponding 

 with S. perspicua. 



9. CHAEAXES SATUENUS, var. LATICINCTUS. 



Charades satumus, var. laticinctus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1 895, p. 252. 

 cJ, Vuwa, W. coast of Lake Nyasa, August 16th, 1895. 



10. CHAEAXES DETTCEANTJS. 



GTiaraxes druceanus, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 4 (1869); Lep. 

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

 cJ, Lumpi Eiver, Lower Nyika, Nov. 30th, 1895. 



" Taken on a putrefying Eland's head, while on a porter's head" 

 (E. 0.). 



11. CHAEAXES ACH^JMENES. 



Char axes achcemenes, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, 

 pi. lix. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 



d 1 , Deep Bay, March 6th, 1896. 



12. CHAEAXES GTJDEEIANA. 



cJ. Nymphalis guderiana, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. 

 Halle, 1879, p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 18. 



$ . Charades guderiana, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 648 ; Trimen, 

 P. Z. S. 1894, pi. v. fig. 8. 



$ , Deep Bay, Jan. 17th, 1896. 



" Taken feeding upon over-ripe bananas in my veranda ; " 

 contained a " prodigious quantity of bright emerald-green ova " 

 (JR. G.). 



13. CHAEAXES MANICA. 



$ . Charaxes manica, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 43, pi. vi. fig. 9. 



<$ , Kapora, Songwe plain, N.W. Nyasa, March 3rd, 1895 

 (J. B. Yule) ; $ , Mtambwi Hill, Deep Bay, July 1st, 1895. 



The female is larger than in Mr. Trimen's figure, and, on the 



upper surface, reminds one strongly of G. bohemanni $ ; it is a 



good deal shattered, having evidently been long on the wing. 



Mr. Crawshay says of it : " A rare and almost impossible insect 



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