822 DB. A. a. BUTI.EB ON LEPIDOra'ERA [Nov. 17, 



8. Samanta simonst. 



Mycalesis simonsii, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. kix. p. 458 (1877). 



cS d, Karonga plain, 1G70 feet alt., N.W. coast of Lake 

 Nyasa, August 20th ; 2 , Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika 

 Eoad, August 22nd, 1895. 



Said to be, without question, the dry -season form of S. j)erspicua: 

 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. eliasis is a native 

 of a humid country, and has no wet-season form corresponding 

 with S. perspicua. 



9. Chabaxes SATUBsrs, var. latioinctus. 



Charaxes satumiis, var. laticinctus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 252. 

 cJ, Vuwa, W. coast of Lake Nyasa, August 16th, 1895. 



10. Charaxes dettceanus. 



Gh'iraxes drueeanus, Butler, Cist. Eut. i. p. 4 (1869); Lep. 

 Exot. p. 26, pi. X. fig. 4. 

 (S, Lumpi Eiver, Lower Nyika, Nov. 30th, 1895. 



" Taken on a putrefying Eland's head, while on a porter's head" 

 {R. C). 



11. Chabaxes aoh^menes. 



Charaxes achcemenes, Felder, Eeise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 446, 

 pi. Hx. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 



(J , Deep Bay, March 6th, 1896. 



12. CiLABAXES GUDEEIANA. 



cJ . Nymphalis guderiana, Dewitz, Nova Acta Akad. Naturf. 

 Halle, 1879, p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 18. 



5 . Charaxes guderiana, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 648 ; Trimen, 

 P. Z. S. 1894, pi. V. fig. 8. 



5 , 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. Chabaxes manioa. 



5 . Charaxes manica, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 43, pi. vi. fig. 9. 



d , Kapora, Songwe plain, N.W. Nyasa, March 3rd, 1895 

 {J. B. Yule) ; ? , 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 O. bohemanni $ ; it is a 

 good deal shattered, having evidently been long on the wing. 

 Mr. Crawshay says of it : — " A rare and almost impossible insect 



