1865.) MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPECIES OF CHARAXES. 625 
Ale supra ferruginee ; postice sine maculis ceruleis ; subtus 
maculis submarginalibus obscurissimis. 
6. CHARAXES PHRAORTES. 
Charazes phraortes, E. Doubleday in Ann. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 65; 
Doubl., Westw. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 309. n. 22. 
Hab. Madagascar. B.M. 
7. CHARAXES CASTOR. 
Papilio castor, Fabricius, Gen. Ins. Mant. p- 251; Ent. Syst. 
di. pt. 1. p. 63. n. 196; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 351. n. 4. 
Nymph. castor, Donovan, Nat. Repos. iv. pl. 16; Westw., Doubl. 
& Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 308. n. 3. 
Papilio pollux, Cramer, Pap. t. 37. f. C, D. 
Charazxes pollux, Feisthamel in Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1850, 
p- 255. pl. 9. f. 1. 
Papilio camulus, Drury, Ill. iii. t. 30. f. 2. 
Hab. Sierra Leone ; Congo. B.M. 
8. CHARAXES PH@BUS, sp.n. (Pl. XXXVI. fig. 2.) 
Upperside—front wings ferruginous, paler just beyond the middle, 
with a broad submarginal black band along the outer margin ; apical 
part of submarginal edge intersected with black at the nervures; a 
triangular black spot, its base resting upon the first subcostal ner- 
vule near the apex ; a black elongate spot closing the cell ; two spots, 
one above the cell, the other halfway between the subapical spot 
and the end of the cell ; two black spots placed obliquely just below 
the end of the cell. Hind wings as above, but without any spots, 
and with black marginal edge. Body ferruginous. 
Underside reddish olivaceous, basal half curiously marked with 
silvery spots and streaks with dark centres ; central band silvery, very 
narrow, tapering from the inner margin of hind wing near the anal 
angle to the front margin of anterior wing near the apex. Front 
wings with a submarginal row of eight dusky black spots between 
the nervules along the outer margin; a row of six dusky spots on 
the central band. Hind wings with a submarginal olivaceous band 
varied with silver ; anal angle ochreons, enclosing a violaceous spot. 
Hab. Abyssinia. B.M. 
Ale supra atre, fascia media nivea ad apicem anticarum coarc- 
tata ; corpus fuscum. 
9. CHARAXES BRUTUS. 
Papilio brutus, Cramer, Pap. t. 241. f. E, F; Godart, Enc. M. 
ax.op. 351. 0.3. 
Nymph. brutus, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. 
p. 308. n. 5; Trimen, Rhop. Afric. Austr. i. p. 173. n. 100. 
Eribea brutus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 47. n. 422. 
Hab. Sierra Leone; Coast of Guinea. B.M. 
C. brutus, var. Port Natal. B.M. 
Proc. Zoou. Soc.—1865, No. XLI. 
