butte iifltes of the aenus charaies. 365 



36. Chakaxes azota. 



$ . Philognoma azota, Hewltson, Entom. Month. Mag. vol. xiv. p. 82 

 (1877). 



S • Charaxes azota, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xv. 

 p. 249 (1895). 



Type, Delagoa Bay (Monfeiro), 6 . 



L'jcal form : Charaxes calliclea, H. Grrose Smitli, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. iii. p. 130 (1889). 

 Mombasa. 



Not in the British Museum collection, but intermediate in 

 character between typical C. azota and the following : — 



Local form : Charaxes nyasana, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. ser. 6, vol. xv. p. 249 (1895). 



Charaxes azota c?, Hewitson, Entom. Month. Mag. vol. xiv. p. 181 

 (1878). 



a. Zornha (JKaccIounie), cS . 

 Hewitson coll. 



b. Nyasa-land (Thelwall), c? . 



Now that I hare seen Mr. G-rose Smith's examples of his 

 C. calliclea from Mombasa, I can no longer regard this form as 

 more than a local race of C. azota, the differences in C. calliclea 

 being such as partly to connect the two extremes. In all prob- 

 ability a series collected over the whole of Eastern Africa would 

 supply all the links from one type to the other, but I do not 

 doubt that the form of Delagoa Bay is constantly dissimilar from 

 that of Nyasa-land, and therefore that distinctive names, by 

 whicL. these local races may be indicated, are a positive gain to 

 the student. 



6. C. LUCRETiiJs Group. 



87. Charaxes lactetikctus. 



S- Charaxes l^iCteimctus, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xviii. p. 113 (1892); 

 Berl ent. Zeit. xxxviii. p. 190, Taf. v. fig. 3 (1893). 



Adeli. 

 Probably allied to C. lucrefius, to judge from the under sur- 

 face ; above, it is more like C. candiope, but with the basal area 

 bluish white, more after the fashion of C. varanes. 



