648 DR. A. G. BUXLEB, OS LEPIDOPTEBA TEOil [NoV. 7 



17. CiLUlAXZS JOCASIE. 



d . Char axes jocmte, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 628, n. 21. 



5 . Cliaraxes acJicemenes, Felder, Eeise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 440, 

 n. 729, pi. 59. figs. 6, 7 (1867). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



I do not see why the name C. jocaste should be ignored, since 

 thousands of descriptions applicable to half a dozen species coming 

 from the same locaUty are allowed to stand. My description 

 characterized four species, of two of which the locality was estab- 

 lished, one being from India and the other fi*om Senegal ; both 

 species were well known under the names Cfahii's, Fabr., and 

 C. jocaste, Boisd., MS. In the absence of any other known African 

 species, C. jocaste from Senegal was perfectly recognizable by my 

 description ; therefore it seems to me that, as a matter of fact, it 

 was sufficiently characterized and the name C jocaste (as a matter 

 of principle) should supersede that of C. achamenes. The object of 

 a description is not to glorify the author of it, but to render a 

 new species recognizable, and it is on this account that good 

 figures of new species (when named), although unaccompanied by 

 any description whatever, are recognized as claiming priority over 

 subsequent descriptions of the same species. It is immaterial 

 by \^hat name a species is known, provided that the oldest name 

 by which it was recognized is retained. 



18. Ch,A.E.VXES GUI)EBI.V>rA. 



(S . Nymphalis rjudenana, Dewitz, Xova Acta A_kad. Xaturf . 

 Halle, 1879, p. 200, pi. 2. fig. 18. 



S , December 1892 ; j $ , January 1893 : S , Mipa Stream, 

 Mofwi, August 3, 1892 {R. C). 



The female approaches that sex of C. lirl-ii, being crossed above 

 by a bufi band which on the primaries is broken up, above the 

 first median branch, into two series of spots divergent on the 

 costal area ; the bluish-white discoidal spot of the male is also 

 represented by a buff spot. 



19. Chaeaxes ALLADrsns. 



$ . Cliaraxes alladinis, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 5, n. 3 (1869) ; 

 Lep. Exot. i. pi. 10. fig. 2 (1870). 



S . Above very near to C. JwUandii (the Sierra Leone repre- 

 sentative of C. ethalion), but in outline of wing even more quadrate 

 than C. ethalion itself, the primaries ha\-ing a much less arched 

 outer margin and the secondaries being shorter. Above blue- 

 black : primaries with the costa, basal fourth, apex, and outer 

 margin bronze green ; two subapical obliquely placed unequal 

 greenish-white spots : secondaries with the costal area purplish 

 brown, the abdominal area, including the greater part of the 

 discoidal ceU, clothed with brown hair ; external area and veins 

 greenish ; a shining bronze-green lunulated stripe halfway be- 

 tween the cell and outer margin, only the last four sinuations 



