334 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 



Localities of Char axes Pclias. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Bain's Kloof ; Woi-cester side. Genadendal 

 {G. Hettarsch). Montagu {L. Taats and D. Kamienieyer). 



110. (8.) Charaxes Saturnus, Butler. 



^ Charaxes Saturnus, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 624, pi. 36, 

 f. I ; and ( $ ) Lep. Exot., p. 5, pi. ii. f. 2 (1869). 



Nymphalis Pelias, Trim., Rhop. Afi*. Aust., i. p. 175, n. loi [part] (1862) ; 

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



Exp. al., 3 in. 4-7 lin. 



$ Fuscous, suffused with ferruginous-ochreous in basal area; a 

 common discal war7ii yellow -oclireous hand, and also a hind-marginal 

 series of yellow-ochreous spots. Fore-iving : quite as in Pelias, Cram., 

 but considerably prolonged in apical portion ; outer part of discal 

 band, beyond traversing series of black spots, consisting of more 

 elongate marks ; lower part of band rather narrowed. Hind-wing : as 

 in Pclias, but the transverse band paler and narrower, with its lower 

 portion more completely obscured ; bluish spots near hind-margin much 

 larger; hind-marginal lunulate spots more generally suffused with 

 white, — in the lower ones mixed with greenish ; tail on first median 

 considerably longer than in Pelias. Under side. — Very like that of 

 Pelias, lut genercdly Irighter and clearer, — especially the ferruginous-red 

 of basal area ; outer area with a distinctly bluish tint in fore-wing and 

 greenish tint in hind-wing. Fore-ioing : two series of ochreous-yellow 

 spots larger and brighter than in Pelias, — the black spots outwardly 

 touching the inner series much more strongly marked. Hlnd-unng : 

 outer costal mark distinctly divided into two ; discal white band much 

 narrower on inner-margin, and without the small curved fuscous mark 

 below first median nervule ; series of ferruginous marldngs externally 

 bounding lohite band much enlarged, prolonged, and acuminate, and 

 followed by an interrupted, sharply and regularly angidated, fuscous 

 streak ; submarginal lunules with their bluish internal edging expanded 

 into violaceous markings, which become large and round towards anal 

 angle ; hind-marginal yellow and white lunules larger and brighter. 



$ Like $, but paler and duller on both surfaces. 



The 9 figured by Mr. Butler {loc. cit.) is of very great size, expanding five 

 inches across the wings, and is closer to the $ in coloui'ing than are the two 

 smaller $ s (from Damaraland and the Transvaal) which I have received. 1 

 Mr. Butler's example was sent from the Congo ; and it would be of interest 

 to know if a correspondingly large foi-m of the ^ occurs there. 



^ A brightly coloured ? since received fi-om Colonel Bowker (Pinetown, Natal) expands 

 4 inches i line. Its fore-wings are considerably more acuminate than those of the specimen 

 figured by Mr. Butler. 



