1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 41 



62. Chaeaxes sattjrjStus, Butl. 



Charaxes saturnus, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 624, pi. 36. 

 fig.l. 



Of this common South-Tropical species there are one example 

 from Umtali, seven from the Mineni Valley, and four from the 

 Lusika Biver. Of the two females from the last-named locality, 

 one expands a little over 4 inches and the other 3| inches. 



63. Charaxes castor (Cram.). 



Papilio castor, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. xxxvii. figs. C, D (1775). 



Mr. Selous notes that C. castor was rare ; he took but three 

 specimens, all on the stem of the same thorn-tree {Acacia sp.) at 

 Lusika Biver on which the female 0. azota was captured, and on 

 the same date, the 13th April. 



64. Charaxes pollux (Cram.). 



Papilio pollux, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. xxxviii. figs. E, E (1775). 



Papilio camulus, Dru. 111. Nat. Hist. iii. pi. 30 (1782). 



A female from Christmas Pass, taken on 27th February, and a 

 male from the Mineni Valley, taken on 16th March, are the only 

 examples in the collection. These are both distinguished from the 

 "West-African specimens that I have seen in possessing not only 

 considerably larger ochre-yellow hind-marginal spots in the fore 

 wings, but also a complete and conspicuous series of ochre-yellow 

 lunules along the hind margin of the hind wings ; they further 

 both want on the upperside of the fore wings the lowermost 

 black spot (between 2nd and 1st median nervules). In the female 

 not only are the tails on the hind wings considerably longer and 

 wider than in the male, but the intermediate dentation on the 2nd 

 median nervule is also prolonged into a short tail. 



The male was captured sucking at exudations on the branches 

 of the same tree that was frequented by C. boliemani (see below), 

 the female fluttering among grass. 



Manica is by far the most southern station recorded for this 

 Butterfly, and indeed, as far as I can ascertain, the only East- 

 African one near the coast ; but C. pollux is common at Sierra Leone 

 and extends to Cameroons and Chinchoxo (4° 22' S.) along the 

 "West Coast, while Mr. Butler has also recorded it as amoug 

 Emiu Pasha's captures in Monbuttu, Central Africa, about 4° N. 



65. Charaxes achjemetstes, Eeld. (Plate V. fig. 7, $ .) 



<$ 2 • Charaxes achcmnenes, Eeld. Beise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 446, 

 pi. lix. figs. 6, 7 [ c? "J (1867). 



One specimen from Umtali, one from Christmas Pass, five 

 specimens from Mineni Valley, and five from the Lusika Biver ; 

 three of these are females. 



Although the upperside of the male and the underside of both 

 sexes are so completely unlike to the pattern and colouring of 



