324 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Pupa. — Pellucid blue-green with a delicate plum-like bloom. On 

 each side of abdomen a row of six black dots. On anal pedicel two 

 pairs of small yellowish tubercles, and a similar pair on ventral surface, 

 close to pedicel, facing towards the head. 



Mr. Mansel Weale, who sent me the notes and drawings from which the 

 above description of the larva and pupa {found near King William's Town, 

 Cape Colony) are drawn up, informed me that the chrysalis state lasted for 

 fourteen days. 



Colonel Bowker also reared Varanes in Natal, and in 1882 sent me a 

 specimen with the skin of the pupa from which it had emerged. On this skin 

 the tubercles on and near the tail described by Mr. AVeale were very prominent 

 and conspicuous, being tipped with black ; it further presented two raised black 

 spots, one on each side of the bluntly bifid head. This pupa was attached to 

 the edge of a green leaf. 



This very fine butterfly is common in the wooded parts of South Africa, and 

 is very conspicuous on the wing. At rest, it is by no means easy to detect, its 

 under-surface colouring being so like faded or withered leaves, and its accus- 

 tomed seat being on the stems or among the branches. Its flight is not so 

 rapid as that of several of its near allies, and it often descends to sport about 

 low trees and even bushes. The exuding sap from wounds of trees is very 

 attractive to it ; and I once enticed a specimen by honey smeared on a trunk 

 at Plettenberg Bay. The species seems to be out during every month of the 

 year, but is numerous only during the warmer season. 



Localities of Charaxcs Varanes. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — "Van Staden's River, near Port Elizabeth." — 

 U Urban. Grahamstown. King William's Town (^/^. i)'C/?-&a?i 

 and /. H. Bowlcer). East London (P. Borclierds). 

 ■ D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Boivker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. "Umkomazi (Lower)." — J. H, 



Bowker. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Toiver). 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lorengo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. " Angola (/. /. Mo7iteiro).'" — Druce. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Roioley). Quilimane 

 (/. H. Bowker). 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Cape Coast Castle (/. M. Pask). Sierra Leone 



{J. M. Pask). 



b. Eastern Coast. — " Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthiir. 



