54 CATALOGUE OV DIUKNAL LEPIDOPXERA. 



bicaudatis fuscis fascia flava ; subtus fascia maculisque albis nigro 



fcetis : habitat in Guinea." Pap. Exot. i. pi. 37. figs. C, D (1776). 



Fabricius, Gen. Ins. p. 251. n. 30, 31 (1776) ; Sp. Ins. p. 11. 



n. 45 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 6. n. 49 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 



p. 63. n. 197 (1793). 



Sierra Leone. (Collected 1858, by Mr. James Foxcroft) B.M. 



16. Char axes Jason. 



Papilio (E. A.) Jasius, Fabricius [P. Jason, Linnaeus], " alis bicau- 

 datis, fuscis, postice lutescentibus, subtus fascia characteribusque 

 albis: habitat in Barbaria." Drury, III. i. pi. 1. fig. 1 (1770). 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 449. n. 29 (1775); Sp. Ins. p. 10. 

 n. 40 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 6. n. 44 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 

 p. 61. n. 191 (1793). 

 South Europe. (Obtained 1845, from Herr J. J. Becker) B.M. 



Mr. Ward, of Halifax, has in his collection some African examples 

 of this species, which he says have the upper surface of the wings 

 brilliantly shot with purple. 



Aberrant Species. 



17. Charaxes Berenice. 



J . Papilio (N. P.) Berenice, Drury, " alis dentato-caudatis nigris : 

 fascia communi rubra, posticis subtus nigro albo ferrugineo flavoque 

 variis : habitat in Sierra Leon Africae." III. iii. pi. 11. figs. 1, 2 

 (1782) ; Donovan, Nat. Rep. iii. pi. 107 (1825). 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 48. n. 471 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. 

 p. 114. n. 350 (1793). 



c? , Sierra Leone (collected 1858, by Mr. James Foxcroft) ; $ , 

 West Africa (obtained 1856, from Capt. Parry). B.M. 



There is one male specimen of P. Berenice in the Banksian Collec- 

 tion. A superficial resemblance which this species bears to the N. Ca- 

 ledonia of Hewitson induced me to place it in the genus Prothoe 

 with that species ; the different neuration of P. Berenice, however, 

 with other minor distinctions, at once separates it from that group of 

 insects. In coloration this species bears a distant resemblance to 

 some of the African Acradnce ; but its robustness precludes the pro- 

 bability of its being an example of mimetic analogy. 



Genus 8. AGANISTHOS, Boisduval, 



Suit Buff. i. pi. 4 B (1836). 

 v 1. Aganisthos Odius. 



Papilio (E. A.) Odius, Fabricius, " alis falcatis, subdentatis, 

 fuscis ; anticis disco flavo : habitat in Indiis." 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 457. n. 60 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 23. n. 

 95 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 12. n. Ill (1787). 



