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Although G. Saturnus is so very near an ally of C. Pelias (Cram.) that I 

 did not think it separable up to 1866, it may be always recognised by its 

 larger size and longer wings, as well as by the very much enlarged and 

 acuminate ferruginous discal marks on the under side of the hind-wings. In 

 my description are mentioned several other points of difference which appear 

 to be constant. 



This species seems to have a much wider range than G. Pelias, being 

 recorded from as far north as Chinchoxo on the West Coast, and the Zambesi 

 on the East Coast, while in the interior a specimen has occurred at the Victoria 

 Nyanza (J.?iw. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ^xii. p. loi, August 1883). In Damara- 

 land, where Mr. J. A. Bell found it rather abundant, the butterfly was 

 commonly found on the droppings of the larger animals. In Natal it would 

 appear to be rare, Colonel Bowker having sent me only an example (belong- 

 • ing to Mr. B. Ayres), which was taken on an orange-tree at Pinetown, and 

 another ^ captvired at the same place in April 1883. 



Localities of Charaxcs Saturnus. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (B. Ayres). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District [T. Ayres). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {H. Hutchijison, G. J. Anders- 



son, and J. A. Bell). "Angola (J. /. Monteiro)." — Druce. 

 " Congo."— Butler. "Chinchoxo (Falkenstein)."— Dewitz. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River (Rev. H. Roioleij). 



hi. Interior. — Bamangwato, Khama's County [H. Barber). Bula- 

 wayo [F. C. Selous). Mashunaland (F. G. Selous). " Victoria 

 Nyanza (Rev. J. Hannington)." — Butler. 



111. (9.) Oharaxes Brutus, (Cramer). 



$ ? Papilio Brutus, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. t. ccxli. fif. b, p (1782). 

 Painlio Cajus, Herbst., Nat. Bek. Ins., Schmett., iv. t. 64, fF. i, 2 (1790). 

 Nymphalis Brutius, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 351, n. 3 (1819). 

 Nymjjhalis Brutus, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 173, n. 100 (1862). 

 Var. Gharaxes Brutus, Cram., var. Junius, Oberth., Ann. INIus. Genov., xv. 

 p. 166 (1880). 



Exjp. al., ($) 2 in. 10 lin. — 3 in. 6 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 8 lin. — 4 iu. 



$ Broumish-UacJc, with a gradually-iuidcning, yelloivish-white, nar- 

 rowly bluish-edged hand, beyond middle, from costa of fore-wing to near 

 inner margin of hind-wing. Fore-wing : a greenish gloss over basal 

 portion ; the first five spots of the transverse yellowish- white band, 

 which commences not far from apex, distinctly separate from each 

 other, — the remainder confluent as far as inner margin, where the 

 band is widest ; along hind-margin, between nervnles, a row of small 

 reddish-ochreous spots. Hind-iving : the transverse band prolonged 

 across this wing, as a broad, continuous, median band, as far as sub- 

 median nervure ; along hind-marginal edge, a row of narrow bluish, or 



