1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 39 



Both have the fuscous borders and markings strongly developed, 

 the male indeed approaching in this respect the variety A from 

 Zululand and Delagoa Bay described by me in S.-Afr. Butt. iii. 

 p. 405 (1889) ; and the female having all the ground-colour spots 

 in the border of the fore wings completely separated froin the 

 discal field. 



Male examples as dark as the one here noted have been taken at 

 Durban and sent to me by Mr. A. D. Millar. 



59. Charaxes varanes (Cram.). 



Papilio varanes, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. clx. figs. D, E (1779), and 

 iv. t. ccclxxxviii. figs. A, B (1782). 



The two specimens received, taken in the Mineni Valley, agree 

 with those from the Zambesi and Quilimane, and indeed with 

 Tropical examples generally, in having the basal white much 

 better developed (in both fore and hind wings) than in any 

 individual from the extra-tropical area that I have examined. 



60. Charaxes lasti, H. G-. Smith. (Plate V. fig. 6, $ .) 



Charaxes lasti, H. Gr. Smith, Ann. & Mag. .Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 

 vol. iii. p. 131 (1889) ; and Ehop. Exot. p. 8, pi. (Char.) iv. figs. 4, 

 5 [j] (1890). 



There are two examples ( c? and $ ) from the Mineni Valley, taken 

 on the 18th and 14th March respectively, a male specimen from 

 the Pungwe Valley taken on 1st September, and two ( S and £ ) 

 captured on the Pungwe River, about 15 miles above Sarmento, 

 on 19th September. 



I have not seen the types of this Charaxes, but, judging from 

 the description and figures above cited, I do not think Mr. Selous's 

 specimens can be held distinct from it ; although all three males 

 differ in some respects from the figures, they also differ from one 

 another. All three agree in having the transverse irregular series 

 of fuscous markings on the disk disconnected (except near the 

 costa) from the hind-marginal fuscus border, and extended by an 

 additional sagittiform mark below 2nd median nervule, and also in 

 having the lowest and largest fulvous hind-marginal spot completely 

 enclosed in the border ; in these features differing from the figure 

 of the upperside. The Mineni and Pungwe Valley males further 

 diverge from the same figure in presenting a well-developed sub- 

 marginal fuscous band in the hind wing from the costa to the 1st 

 median nervule ; and even in the male from above Sarmento, iu 

 which all the fuscous markings of the upperside are greatly 

 reduced, there are traces of this long band. On the underside, 

 again, all are paler and yellower than in fig. 5, and only the 

 Mineni Valley male has the silvery-white median stripe across the 

 hind wings (which is, however, much broader than in the figure). 

 The two Pungwe males have all the underside markings much 

 attenuated, and in the example from above Sarmento they are 

 almost obsolete; and both they and the Mineni male have more or 



