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those of male, except that the common discal band of the upper- 

 side is represented in white (rath er vaguely denned externally), and 

 that its outer series of ochreous spots in the fore wing is faintly 

 reproduced. 



The pattern and coloration of both sexes on the underside 

 exhibit the closest agreement with those shown in C. ethalion, Boisd., 

 only differing in the greater thickness and (in parts) brighter 

 tints of the markings, and, in the male only, by the reproduction 

 of the costal, outer discal, and hind-marginal white spots of the 

 fore wings. On the upperside the disparity between the female 

 C. guderiana and the female C. ethalion, and the great likeness to 

 C. satumus in the former, are due to the ferruginous colour of the 

 basal areas and the narrowness and decided ochre-yellow tint of the 

 discal band. 



Mr. Selous notes the interesting circumstance that while all the 

 more numerous males were found drinking at the water's edge, the 

 females were invariably met with sucking the exudations on a tree- 

 stem or branches in company with the fine " Goliath " Cetoniid 

 beetles, Rhamphorrhina petersiana, Eudicella trimeni, &c. 



67. Chaeaxes ephyea (Godt.). 



Nymphalis ephyra, Godt. Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 355 (1819). 



Nine males from the Mineni Valley. Six of these present on 

 the upperside of the hind wings the series of dull-greenish lunules 

 before the submarginal bluish ones mentioned by Godart (loc. tit.) 

 as occurring in a single specimen from the West Coast of Africa. 

 The underside is darker, and with a more ferruginous tinge than 

 usual. 



The males of this Butterfly are noted as always found drinking 

 at the water's edge ; they were captured during March. 



68. Charaxes pHjEus, Hewits. 



Charaxes plums, Hewits. Ent. M. Mag. xiv. p. 82 (1877) ; B. 

 Monteiro, Delagoa Bay, &c. frontisp. figs. 4, 5 (1891). 



The only example (a $ ) was taken on a tree at Lusika River 

 on the 1st April. 



69. Charaxes manica, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 9, $ .) 



$ . Exp. al. 2 in. 10 lin. to 3 in. 2 lin. 



Allied to C. ephyra (Godt.), C. phceus, Hewits., &c. 



Submetallic pale blue, more or less tinged with greenish, with very 

 broad fuscous ap>ical hind-marginal borders ; in fore iving a rather 

 broad obliquely transverse white band outwardly bordering the blue 

 as in female C. bohemani, Feld. Fore wing : blue dull for some 

 distance from base, thence brighter ; white band commences 

 widely on costa, encroaching internally a little on discoidal cell at 

 extremity, and is of about even width as far as 1st median nervule 

 beyond middle, but below this is bent inwardly from the general 

 oblique direction, and much narrowed by diffusion of the blue as 

 far as submedian nervure, below which it does not extend ; apical 



