376 DE. A. G. BUTLER ON THE 



l-m. Cameroons, S 6 ; from S. & Gr. coll, 



n. Victoria, Cameroons (Bruce coll.), 6 ; from S. & Gr. coll. 

 Type, 0. Congo (Richardson), d . 

 Hewitson coll. 



p. "Without locality, c? < 



q. Congo, $ (example figured in 'Lep. Exot.'). 



72. Chaeaxes PEiJi'CEPs, sp. n. 



c? . Differs from C. smaragdalis in tlie less produced, more 

 truncated apex to the primaries, the outer margin almost 

 straight ; much shorter tails to secondaries ; in colouring it is 

 more violaceous ; the blue band completely divided on the 

 primaries to the first median branch and by two black spots on 

 the interno^median interspace ; secondaries with the first division 

 of the, blue band represented by a small isolated spot ; border 

 much less black, narrower, separating into ocelloid spots from 

 median vein ; under surface more lilacine than in G. smaragdalis. 

 Expanse 97 millim. 



a. Victoria, Cameroons (Druce coll.), d ; from S. & G. coll. 



73. ChaEAXES MoIfTElEI. 



Charaxes Monteiri, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 168, pi. lix. (1886). 

 Isle of St. Thomas, Guinea. 



Not in the Museum collection. 



74. Ckaeaxes violetta. 



Charaxes violetta, H. Grose Smith, Entom. Month. Mag. xxi. p. 247 

 (1885) ; Rhop. Exot. i. Char. pi. i. figs. 1-3 (1887). 



a. Delagoa Bay (Monteiro), S • 



h. Zanzibar (Druce coll.), $ ; from S. & G. coll. 



75. Chaeaxes xiphaees. 



5 . Papilio xiphares, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxxvii. figs. A, B 

 (1782). 



d . Papilio thyestes, Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pi. xxxii. figs. 2,2 b (1790). 

 Nymphalis thurius, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. .354 (1823). 

 Nymphalis thieste, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 307 (1850). 



a. South Africa (F. P. Mansel Weale), S • 

 h, c. South Africa (Sir Andrew Smith), $ $ . 

 Hewitson coll. 



d, e. Without locality, $ $ . 

 /. Cape of Good Hope, $ . 



