320 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



or less confluent with the discal ground-colour ; hind-wing with an addi- 

 tional (shorter) tail on third median ncrvidc. Under side as in ^, but 

 less silvery. 



This delicately-coloured species frequents woods, and the few examples I 

 noticed in Natal remained among the higher brandies of trees, on which they 

 frequently settled. Colonel Bowker, who met with the butterfly in Kaffraria 

 Proper, noted that the $ was commoner than the $ , and more easily captured, 

 frequenting a yellow-flowered thistle near the banks of the Bashee River. The 

 $ was also often to be taken flying up and down a valley among scattered trees 

 or bushes, and at such^times looked very like some of the commoner Pieridoe. 

 ZooUna's season of appearance was the autumn, and Colonel Bowker did not 

 notice it after the beginning of April. 



Localities of Charaxes Zoolina. 



I. South Africa. 



D. Kafi"raria Proper. — Bashee River (/. II. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. 

 H. " Delagoa Bay."— Coll. Hewitson. 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Eastern Coast, — Zambesi. — Coll. Hewitson. 



104. (2.) Charaxes Neanthes, (Hewitson). 



? NymjjJialis Neantlies, Hewits,, Exot. Butt., i. p. 88, pi. 44, fi". 2, 3 



(1854). 

 (^ $ „ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 179, n. 104(1862). 



ExiJ. al., (^) 2 in. 2-5 lin. ; ($) 2 in. 4-7 lin. 



^ Fidvous-ochreoiis, with ill-defined ferruginous hroivn hind-marginal 

 "borders, the inner edge of which is expressed by a curved irregular 

 series of small fuscous spots (lunulate and linear in hind-wing). Fore- 

 wing : a narrow ferruginous-brown short transverse streak closing dis- 

 coidal cell ; apical and hind-marginal border beginning not far from 

 end of cell, and enclosing an indistinct costal "marking composed of two 

 good-sized spots of the ground-colour, and a curved submarginal row 

 of six still more indistinct similar spots, incompletely separated from 

 the ground-colour of the disc by the series of fuscous spots above 

 mentioned. Hind- wing : hind-marginal border very indistinct, contain- 

 ing traces of a median series of ground-colour spots, preceded and fol- 

 lowed by a streak of the same hue ; of these streaks the inner is wider 

 and immediately preceded by the series of small fuscous lunulate spots, 

 which is more irregular than in fore-wing ; at anal angle an indistinct 

 fuscous, blue-dusted lunulate mark, outwardly bounded by a greenish- 

 yellow edging ; tail (at end of first median nervule) ferruginous-brown. 

 Under side. — Duller, more or less closely irrorated with ferruginous- 

 hrown ; discal series of spots represented by very small inconspicuous 



