344 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



115. (13.) Charaxes Phseus, Hewitson. 



Char axes Phceus, He wits., Ent. Month. Mag., xiv. p. 82 (1877). 



Ux]). ciL, {$) 2 in. 10 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 3I lin. 



^ Fuscous, ivith a Iroad hasal Uue jMtcIi in each wing. Fore-ioing : 

 blue fills discoidal cell, and extends obliquely to inner margin (where 

 it is tinged with whitish) considerably beyond middle ; a slightly 

 elbowed submarginal row of six whitish spots (the three lower ones 

 small and tinged with blue) from subcostal nervure a little before apex to 

 second median nervule. Hind-ioing : blue covers entire disc from base, 

 leaving only a broad costal, apical, and hind-marginal fuscous border, 

 and an inner-marginal greyish one; hind-marginal spots and lunules 

 of the same colours and arrangement as in C. Fihalion, Boisd., but 

 brighter and more conspicuous. Under side. — Ground-colour con- 

 siderably paler and more reddish ; all the fuscous markings as in Etha- 

 lion, but thinner and fainter. 



$ Like Mhcdion $ ; but with white transverse bar of fore-icing 

 commencing conspicuously (somewhat as in C. Cithceron, Feld., ^) on 

 subcostal nervure at end of and just beyond discoidal cell, and well curved 

 outward, forming a wide band, edged with violaceous in its lower 

 portion ; while in hind-wing the blue band is brighter than in Ethalion. 

 Under side. — Paler and more glossy than in $, quite silvery in apical 

 area of both wings ; markings similar, but white bar of fore-wing con- 

 spicuous, and a narrow irregular whitish median band across hind-wing. 

 This near ally of C. Ethcdion has the apex of the fore-wing, in 

 both sexes, more produced than in that species. The $ has consider- 

 able resemblance on the upper side to the much larger C. Bohemani, 

 Feld. ; but on the under side it is altogether different, that of Bohemani 

 being like that of C. Citha^ron, Feld. 



The only specimens I have seen are a S f^ud two $ s in the Hewitson 

 Collection, which 1 believe were received from the late Mr. J. J. Monteiro. 



Locality of Charaxes Phceus. 



I. South Afi-ica. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Coll. Hewitson. 



116. (U.) Charaxes Cithaeron, Felder. 



Charaxes Cithceron, Feld., Wien. Ent. Monats., iii. p. 398, t. 8, ff. 2, 3 



(1859). 

 ^ 9 Nyriiplialis XipJiares, Var. A, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 169 



(1862). 



Exp. al., Q) 3 in. 6-8 lin.; ($) 3 in. 10 lin. — 4 in. I lin. 

 $ Blade, glossed frvm bases with violaceous-hlue, and marked ivith 

 pcde violaccous-hhie hands and sjjots; the hand in kind-iuing suffused icith 



