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hind-wing (on which the tails are longer and narrower) ; and, in the 

 fore-wing, in the possession of the cellular black marks and the costal 

 short fulvous fasciee. On the under side, the markings before the 

 discal band correspond pretty nearly to those of Eitdoxus, but are less 

 irregular, and with broader silvery (instead of creamy- white) edges ; 

 in the fore-wing the discal band is silvery and continuous, instead 

 of fulvous-ochreous and macular, and there is a costal silvery streak ; 

 and in the hind-wing the discal band is much broader, and wants three 

 of the four ferruginous spots which mark its upper half in Eudoxus. 

 Compared with C. Brutus, the under side has the submarginal mark- 

 ings not sagittate ; and (in the hind- wing) the dark spots that mark 

 the upper half of the inner side of the discal band are wanting ; while 

 the stripe before middle is straight and continuous, and unmarked above 

 the cell, instead of being (as in Brutus) composed of two distinct greyish- 

 fuscous white-edged elongate marks out of line with each other. All 

 the silvery pattern is far more brilliant than in Brutus. 



I first saw this very beautiful Charaxes in 1867 at the Hopeian Museum 

 at Oxford, in a collection made on the Zambesi by the Rev. H. Rowley. In 

 1869 Mr. W. Morant sent me a (^ from Natal, with a note that it was not 

 uncommon, but local, and had been observed from February to May at Pine- 

 town. Colonel Bowker, ten years subsequently, met with the butterfly in 

 the same locality, and sent me the paired sexes, taken on the 5th April 1879. 

 Besides the $ of this pair (which is that above described), I have seen only 

 one other example of that sex, in a collection brought by a lady from Natal 

 in 1883. A c? from Pinetown, sent by Colonel Bowker in July 1879, ^^^ 

 two ^ s from the Eastern Transvaal, taken by Mr. Ayres, are all the other 

 South- Afi-ican specimens I have seen. 



Localities of Charaxes Eruceanus. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (W. Morant and /. H. Boivher). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District (T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Angola (Pogge).^^ — Dewitz. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi (i?ey. H. Roidey). 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Old Calabar." — Butler. 



109. (7.) Charaxes Pelias, (Cramer). 



$ Papilio Pelias, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. iil ff. c, n. (1779). 

 Nymphalis Pelias, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 351, n. 2 (18 19). 



„ ,, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 175, n. loi [part] (1862); 



and ii. p. 340 [part] (1866). 

 $ Charaxes Pelias, Butl., Lap. Exot., p. 25, pi. x. f. 5 (1869). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 1 1 lin. — 3 in. 4 lin. 



^ Fuscous, suffused with dtdl-fcrruginous in based area ; a common 

 discal yellow -ochreous hand, and also a hind-marginal series of yelloiv- 



