44 JIB. R. TR1MEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



area very broadly fuscous, as in female boliemani ; two indistinct 

 subapical whitish spots placed obliquely close to costa; beneath 

 these, in one specimen, faint traces of three other spots, the whole 

 indicating an elbowed series of five as in female pha&us. Hind 

 wing : blue forms a large discal space, brighter than the dull basal 

 part which fills discoidal cell, extending from 2nd subcostal nervule 

 to below 1st median ; a rather wide costal, apical, and hind- 

 marginal fuscous border ; the usual continuous hind-marginal 

 series of dull-red lunules as far as 3rd median nervule followed by 

 bronzy-green lunules thence to anal angle, preceded by a sub- 

 marginal series of thin, rather indistinct, whitish violet- tinged 

 lunules, quite as in female ethalion, Boisd., and female phaus : 

 inner-marginal border brownish-grey ; tails as in the congeners 

 mentioned. Underside. — General colouring and pattern very close 

 to those slioivn by ethalion and phseus, but decidedly darker and 

 more ferruginous in tint, without the strong silvery gloss, and possess- 

 ing in its fore wing the same conspimous oblique white band as on 

 the iqjperside. 



It is not without hesitation that I propose a new species-name 

 for the three females of Charades here described, because their 

 underside, not only in marking but also in its ferruginous tint, 

 bears so close a resemblance to that of the males of C. ephyra above 

 noticed, that, were not the female of this species known, I should 

 assign these Manica females to it. The males in question seem quite 

 inseparable from C. ephyra, while the females under notice have 

 the upperside totally different from that of the recognized female of 

 C. ephyra, and so closely resembling that of the much larger female 

 of C. boliemani, that they might well pass for dwarf specimens of 

 the latter species. Only further material collected in Manica can 

 determine whether the male of this aberrant female resembles it in 

 the same way as in the case of the allied C. plums, or whether we 

 have here a dimorphic female of G. ephyra. 



One example was taken in the Mineni Valley on 29th March, 

 " on the same individual tree on which so many C. boliemani were 

 captured," and the two others on a thorn-tree at Lusika Eiver on 

 1st April. 



70. Charaxes bohemani, Feld. 



6* . Charaxes boliemani, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatschr. iii. p. 321, 

 t. 6. fig. 3 (1859) ; Butl. Lep. Exot. p. 28, pi. x. fig. 3 [ $ ] (1869). 



Of this very fine Charaxes twenty-eight specimens were taken in 

 Mineni Valley from the 11th to the 18th March, and eight at Lusika 

 Eiver from the 1st to the 13th April. Of the entire thirty-six, 

 nineteen are males and seventeen females ; eleven are absolutely 

 fresh perfect examples, twelve in fair condition, and thirteen more or 

 less worn and broken. In expanse of wings the male varies from 

 3 in. 3 lin. to 3 in. 8 lin., and the female from 3 in. 9 lin. to 4 in. 

 The tails of the hind wings are considerably longer and less acumi- 

 nate in the female than in the male. There is but little variation as 

 regards the upperside in either sex, except that the blue has in some 



