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specimens more of a greenish tinge than usual ; in one male there 

 is in the fore wings a small separate spot of blue just beyond the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell. The underside is also very constant, 

 but in the male exhibits some variation in the size and brightness 

 of the yellow lunules which form a common sinuated submarginal 

 series. 



Mr. Selous informs me that he always found both sexes of 

 this species sucking at exudations^ on the branches of a tree of 

 moderate size ; during flight the blue field of the upperside is 

 conspicuous. Though not uncommon and rather widely distributed 

 over Mashunaland, Mr. Selous was not able to secure specimens 

 of it before visiting Manica. 



71. Charaxes cith^ron, Feld. 



Charaxes cithceron, Feld. Wien. ent. Monatschr. hi. p. 398, t. 8. 

 figs. 2, 3 (1859). 



The only example is a much- worn female taken at Christmas 

 Pass on the 29th February. It differs from the typical form so 

 prevalent on the Natal coast, and approaches the female G. xiphares 

 (Cram.), on the upperside of the fore wings by the more macular 

 white median band, and by the two subapical white spots being 

 succeeded inferiorly by a sinuated series of five whitish spots 

 growing fainter downwards, and on the underside of the hind 

 wings by the more pronounced markings throughout, and espe- 

 cially by the presence of a narrow white bar externally bounding 

 the highly irregular median dark-blue transverse streak. On the 

 upperside, however, the median band of the hind wings is not 

 broad and ochre-yellow as in G. xiphares, but pale violaceous-blue 

 and white as in cithceron and narrower than usual in the latter. 

 The tails of the hind wings are very much shorter than in cithceron, 

 shorter and narrower than in G. xiphares $ > being in fact as short 

 and acute as in G. xiphares J . 



72. Charaxes selottsi, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 10, J .) 



c? . Exp. al. 2 in. 1 lin. 



Black, with submetallic pale violaceous-blue white-clouded sub- 

 marginal marking, developed in hind wing into a broad cliscal 

 space. Fore wing : a sinuated submarginal series of eight blue 

 and white spots, of which only the three lowest, between 2nd 

 median nervule and inner margin, are enlarged and conspicuous, 

 forming a short transverse band widening to inner marginal edge ; 

 the other five spots all small and very indistinct, except the 2nd 

 and 3rd, which lie between 5th subcostal and lower radial nervules 

 and are more white than blue. Hind wing : violaceous space 

 extending over disk from costa to below 1st median nervule, and 

 from extremity of discoidal cell to a little distance from hind 

 margin — traversed by a whitish ray and with its inner edge 

 white; just within biud-marginal edge a lunulated bluish-scaled 

 streak, dull red as far as 3rd median nervule, but below that 



