40 MB. B. TEIMEJf ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



less indistinct whitish luniJes (not small spots) forming a sub- 

 marginal series in the hind wings. 



The two females agree with their respective mates, the specimen 

 from above Sarmento having the submarginal fuscous on the upper- 

 side of both wings completely broken up into spots, and the under- 

 side more reddish and much less distinctly marked than in the 

 one from Mineni Valley. 



The South-African Museum has for many years been in posses- 

 sion of a single imperfect male of this species, received with a few 

 other Butterflies collected on the Zambesi by (I was informed) the 

 Rev. H. Waller. It agrees pretty closely \^ith the Mineni Valley 

 male above noted, but has the silvery-white stripe on the under- 

 side of the hind ^vings still broader. 



The male expands 2 in. 9-11 lin. ; the female 3 in. 4 lin. 



C. lasti is the Eastern I'epresentative of C. cynthia, Butl. ( 2 

 C lysianassa, Westw.), a widely distributed West-African species 

 recorded from Ashanti, Cameroons, and Angola. It is distinguished 

 by its smaller size, by the great expansion of the fulvous and the 

 consequent reduction of the fuscous colouring on the upperside, 

 and by the great attenuation and partial obliteration of the mark- 

 ings of the underside. 



Mr. Last discovered this Butterfly at Mombasa, and it is 

 interesting to find it extending so far to the south as the Manica 

 Country. 



Mr. Selous notes that both the first and second of the males 

 above mentioned were captured while drinking at the edge of 

 water, while the female in the Mineni Valley was settled, with 

 wings expanded, on the leaves of a thorn-tree. 



61. Chabaxes azota, Hewits. 



$ . Philognoma azota, Hewits. Ent. M. Mag. xiv. p. 82 (1877). 



S . Clmraxes azota, 'S.ew'iis. op. cit. p. 181 (1878). 



2 . Oharaxes azota, E. Monteiro, Delagoa Bay, &c. frontisp. 

 fig. 1 (1891). 



A fine female of this handsome species is noted as being the 

 only one seen ; it was taken at the Lusika River on 13th April, 

 frequenting the same tree on which specimens of C. castor were 

 found. 



Since the publication of my notes on this species (S.-Afr. Butt, 

 iii. p. 388, 1889), C. azota has been found in some numbers near 

 Delagoa Bay by the Rev. H. Junod, and a series of eight males 

 and three females has been acquired from him for the South- 

 African Museum. In the male the " tails "* of the hind wings are 

 represented only by two short acute dentations ; but in the female 

 not only is the dentation on the 1st median nervule considerably 

 more produced, but there is a distinct tail on the 3rd median 

 nervule. This tail varies both in length and form, being pointed 

 at the tip in two specimens and rounded in two others ; in one of 

 the latter (Mr. Selous's example) it is even inclined to a spatulate 

 form. 



