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and more glistening, with transverse white hand infore-iving. Fore-tving : 

 white band less distinct than on u2J2}er side ; blackish spots near anal 

 angle larger than in $. Hi7id-iving : a very indistinct, irregular oliva- 

 ceous-whitish median band, outwardly edged with a blackish streak ; 

 the dull-reddish, lunular markings, immediately succeeding band, 

 larger and more continuous than in $ ; hind-marginal lunules as in ^, 

 but more conspicuous, and immediately preceded by a lunulated whitish 

 streak. 



In a $ sent from D'Urban, Natal, by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken, all 

 the pale markings on the upper side of the fore-wings are suffused 

 with dull-ochreous-yellow. In both sexes the extent and brightness 

 of the glistening areas on the under side are variable, but the gloss 

 is most silvery and developed in the costal-apical area of the fore- 

 wing. 



This species is distinct from C. Ephyra, Godt., with which I 

 formerly identified it, but the two forms are closely allied. The ^ 

 Ethalion is considerably smaller than the $ Ephyra, and wants the 

 latter's bronzy-greenish hind-margins, and two spots of the same colour 

 about middle of costa of fore- wing; while on the under side it is duller 

 and more ochreous in tint, and has the dull-reddish discal lunular 

 markings much more distinct in the hind-wing. The $ Ethalion is 

 very different from the $ Ephyra on the upper side ; to judge from a 

 Cape Coast Castle specimen of the latter in the British Museum, in 

 which the two macular series of the fore-wing are almost united by 

 connecting suffused whitish-dusky rays between the spots. On both 

 surfaces of the wings the ^ Ethalion bears considerable resemblance to 

 the much larger G. Cithmron, Feld., ^. 



I met with this interesting Charaxes sparingly at Port Natal in January 

 and February 1867, but succeeded in capturing female examples only. One 

 of the latter was seated quite on the bare grovmd, and had evidently only 

 just recently emerged from the chrysalis. I was attracted to the spot by see- 

 ing her flutter downward from a neighbouring tree. Colonel Bowker found 

 both sexes on the wing in the same locality in August 1878. I believe that 

 I noticed a (^ in the edge of a wood at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, as long 

 ago as 1858; and Mr. Streatfeild, C.M.G., informed me that he took the 

 species in the George District in 1877, and in Kaffraria Proper in 1879. 



Localities of Charaxes Ethalion. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. — '' George Disti-ict." — F. Streatfeild. Oudtshoora 

 {Adams). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — " 25 miles W. of Bashee Eiver." — F. Streat- 



feild. 



E. Natal. 



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

 Bowker. 

 H. Delagoa Lay. — Coll. British Museum. 



