176 MR. A. G. Sutler ox [Jan. 18, 



the first median interspace : secondaries with a scarcely perceptible 

 small blind ocellus on the first median interspace. Wings below paler, 

 transversely striated with darker lines, the disk (particularly in the 

 female) suffused with lilacine grey, the ocelli with pale zones, and in 

 the male' with whitish instead of orange irides, those of the pri- 

 maries situated as on the upper surface, but the subapical one, parti- 

 cularly in the female, greatly reduced in size ; the outer border with 

 sharply defined zigzag inner edge towards apex, in the female suf- 

 fused with ferruginous, the intersecting submarginal line being dark 

 ferruginous ; a broad central belt, the inner edge of which is obsolete 

 in the male but sharpely defined by a white-hordered ferruginous 

 line in the female ; the outer edge slightly undulated and angulated 

 on all the wings, dark brown with pale border in the male, ferru- 

 ginous with white border in the female; secondaries with seven discal 

 ocelli, of which the second, third, and seventh are very small and the 

 fifth the largest. Expanse of wings, (S 1 inch 6 lines, $ 1 inch 

 9 Hues. 



Two worn males and one fresh female were obtained. 



Charaxes balfouri, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 6.) 



(No. 741.) 



Allied to C. varanes, from which it differs as follows: — The outer 

 margins of all the wings dentated at the extremities of all the veins, 

 that of the secondaries with two tails of the ordinary type, that at 

 the end of the first median branch being rather short (3 to 4 milli- 

 metres), and that at the end of the third branch of about double the 

 length, more slender and gradually tapering towards the point : 

 wings above deep mahogany red, rather paler on the basal half; 

 primaries with all the markings as in C. varanes, excepting that the 

 spots beyond the cell are not so black : secondaries with the rounded 

 black spots only distinct towards the apex ; outer border black with 

 a marginal series of pale blue lunules fringed ivith snow-white. 

 Body laky brown, prothorax and head olivaceous. Under surface of 

 wings very like C. varanes, but the general colour greener, most 

 like that of the darkest Natal specimens, the black characters on the 

 basal area better marked, the white stripe limiting the broad basal 

 area wider, more diffused externally, and distinctly angulated on all 

 the wings -. the ocelli on the secondaries slightly narrower, and the 

 outer margin of these wings bordered with a series of large black 

 and white lunules. Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 



One specimen of this extremely interesting species was cap- 

 tured . 



The allied species C. varanes has hitherto been referred to the 

 genus Philognoma on account of its only having one peculiarly shaped 

 tail to the secondaries ; but the arrival of this form from Socotra 

 necessitates its transfer to Charaxes, since we now possess a species 

 with the structure of the latter genus, and the general character of 

 the supposed Philognoma. 



' Possibly owing to fading. 



