822 DR, A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Nov. 17, 
8. SAMANTA SIMONST. 
Mycalesis simonsii, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 
vol. xix. p. 458 (1877). 
3 6d, Karonga plain, 1670 feet alt., N.W. coast of Lake 
Nyasa, August 20th; 9, Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika 
Road, August 22nd, 1895. 
Said to be, without question, the dry-season form of S. perspicua: 
this is quite possible, inasmuch as all the specimens now sent 
were obtained at the height of the dry season. The difference 
between the two forms is one of colour rather than of pattern or 
outline ; also, as might be expected, the ocelli are reduced in size. 
The chief objection is that the nearly related S. eiasis is a native 
of a humid country, and has no wet-season form corresponding 
with S. perspicua. 
9. CHARAXES SATURNUS, var. LATICINCTUS, 
Charaxes saturnus, var. laticinctus, Butler, P. Z. 8S. 1895, p. 252. 
3, Vuwa, W. coast of Lake Nyasa, August 16th, 1895. 
10. CHARAXES DRUCEANUS, 
Charaxes druceanus, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 4 (1869); Lep. 
Exot. p. 26, pl. x. fig. 4. 
3, Lumpi River, Lower Nyika, Nov. 30th, 1895. 
“ Taken on a putrefying Eland’s head, while on a porter’s head” 
(R. C.). 
11. CHARAXES ACHAMENES. 
Charaxes achemenes, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, 
pl. lix. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 
3, Deep Bay, March 6th, 1896. 
12. CHARAXES GUDERIANA. 
3. Nymphalis guderiana, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. 
Halle, 1879, p. 200, pl. 2. fig. 18. 
Q. Charaxes guderiana, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 648; Trimen, 
P. Z. S. 1894, pl. v. fig. 8. 
9, Deep Bay, Jan. 17th, 1896. 
“Taken feeding upon over-ripe bananas in my veranda ;” 
contained a “ prodigious quantity of bright emerald-green ova” 
(R. C.). 
13. CHARAXES MANICA. 
2. Charaxes manica, Trimen, P. Z. 8. 1894, p. 43, pl. vi. fig. 9. 
3d, Kapora, Songwe plain, N.W. Nyasa, March 3rd, 1895 
(J. B. Yule); Q, Mtambwi Hill, Deep Bay, July 1st, 1895. 
The female is larger than in Mr. Trimen’s figure, and, on the 
upper surface, reminds one strongly of C. bohemanni Q ; itisa 
good deal shattered, having evidently been long on the wing. 
Mr. Crawshay says of it :—‘ A rare and almost impossible insect 
