1895.] FEOM BKITISH CEJfTEAL AFBIOA. 255 



15, ChABAXES ETHALIOIf. 



2 , Charaxes etJialion, Boisduval, Vov. de Deleg. ii. p. 593 

 (1847). 



(J , Zomba. 



The male of this species, though probabl}' often confounded with 

 those of C. hollandi and C. alladinis, is common in collections. 



16. ClL\.EAXES PH.EUS. 



2 as cJ • Charaxes j^hceus, Hewitson, Ent. Month. Mag. 1877, 

 vol. xiv. p. 82. 



cJ . Charaxes alladinis, Butler, P. Z. IS. 1893, p. (348. 



]N'o\v that we have received the type of C. alladinis in the 

 Godman and Salvin series, I tind that my former identification of 

 the male was incorrect ; the latter is a AV^est- African insect with 

 the basal area of the primaries bronze-greenish, marginal spots of 

 the same colour ; secondaries with white submarginal spots and a 

 discal lunulate green streak : it appears to inhabit the Caineroous. 

 The male described by me in 1893 is undoubtedly that sex of 



C. JihcBUS. 



S , Zomba. 



It is a curious thing that not only did Hewitson describe and 

 Mrs. Mouteiro figure two females as sexes of C.phixus^, but Dewitz 

 did the same thing in his attempt to figure the sexes of C. alladinis. 

 I would propose the name of Charaxes rosce for Hewitson's sup- 

 posed female of C. phceus (which is well described by Mr. Trimeu), 

 its male doubtless \^'ould nearly resemble that sex of C. etheocles. 



It is extremely probable that Charaxes alladinis 2 ot' Dewitz 

 (Nova Acta Leop.-Carol. Akad. Naturf. i. pi. xvii. fig. 9, 1887) is 

 only a slight variety of C. rosai $ ; but his Charaxes alladinis (J 

 (fig. 8) is a female allied to C. ethalion and may be called C. dewitzi, 

 it is perfectly distinct from C. alladinis. Charaxes epJu/ra, var., 

 Dewitz (figs. 10-11), are probably the same as Mr. Trimen's 

 recently described Charaxes manica, from which the female scarcely 

 differs excepting on the apical border of the primaries : at any 

 rate, without comparing specimens of both species, it would be 

 unsafe to pronounce them distinct. 



17. Charaxes whttei. (Plate XV. fig. 3, 2 .) 



c? . Charaxes luhytei, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 649, pi. Ix. fig. 2. 



Charaxes selousi, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 45, pi. vi. fig. 10. 



2 • Above purplish black, browner on basal area ; crossed beyond 

 the middle by a broad pure white belt, which, however, is repre- 

 sented above the median vein of primaries by three elongated 

 white spots ; five other spots, sometimes lunate, in an angular 

 series between the same belt and the costa, commencing in the 

 second median interspace : secondaries with two spots immediately 

 beyond and almost touching the belt upon the subcostal and radial 



^ Curiously enough Mr. Trimen has failed to discover this error, which he 

 has repeated in his ' South- African Butterflies,' vol. i. p. 344. 



