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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTEEFLIES. 
of the wings, and a submarginal row of similar spots from near the 
costa to the inner margin, the lower half of the two rows becoming 
confluent, the two submarginal spots near the apex nearly white. 
Posterior wings with a broad central band of violet-blue, suffused with 
white from the second subcostal nervule to the abdominal fold near 
the anal angle ; above this band are two pairs of violet-blue spots, a 
submarginal row of seven small spots, and a row of elongated spots 
on the margin on each side of the nervules, all violet-blue suffused 
with white. $ Anterior wings with a broad curved band across the 
centre of the wings from the costa to the inner margin, and two white 
transverse spots near the apex. Posterior wings : the inner half, from 
near the base, white, suffused with violet, a submarginal row of small 
white spots, and a marginal white line intercepted by the nervures, 
both suffused with violet. 
" Under side. — Both wings as in Ch. CitJiceron, except that the 
central black line across both wings, which is broadly bordered on 
the outside with white, is straight and continuous, not irregular and 
interrupted as in Cithmron. This species on the upper side has a 
general resemblance to Cithceron ; it is more violet-blue, and is smaller 
in size, particularly the female, which is not so large as the male Cithceron, 
while the under side of both sexes is very distinct from Cithceron, 
" Exp. 3 1" inches. 
" Delagoa Bay." 
In the absence of any examples of this close ally of Cithceron, Feld., 
I give Mr. H. Grose Smith's original description from the Journal 
quoted. Judging from the figures of the upper side of the $ and the 
under side of both sexes more recently (op. cit.) published by Mr. Smith, 
it appears that in the $ the violet-blue spots are in their deeper tint 
more like those of the ^ JCiphares, Oram., although the violet-blue 
band of the hind-wings is, as regards width and the white suffusion 
in its inferior part, more like that of Cithceron. It is also noteworthy 
that on the under side, although the thin blue-black transverse striae 
Mr, H. Grose Smith, adding, *' Mr. Smith says, ' The blue band is much wider than in Etesipe, 
and the tails are larger ; ' — when he sees the original I shall know if the difference is due 
to my hiarried sketch." This drawing represented a <J Charaxes evidently very close to, 
if not identical with, C. Etesipe of Godart, a beautiful West- African species, which has a 
blue-shot black upper side, bearing a common submarginal series of pale-blue spots, and 
also a few white spots on the fore-wings, and a strikingly handsome under side of creamy- 
white and ferruginous markings on a grey ground further varied with black spots. Before 
returning the drawing to Mrs, Monteiro, I noted that the greater width of the blue sub- 
marginal macular band was represented as in the hind-wings only. This feature is charac- 
teristic in a more marked degree of the Madagascar representative of Etesipe named by 
Hewitson Cacnthis (Exot. Butt., iii, pi. 32, ff. 12, 13, 1 863) ; and, as far as I could judge 
from the drawing referred to, the Delagoa Bay form must be intermediate between Etesipe 
and Cacuthis. I learn from Mr. Grose Smith that he has not found any example of this 
butterfly in the collections which reached him from Delagoa Bay ; but Mrs. Monteiro's 
drawing leaves no doubt of the occurrence of the species in that locality. It is especially 
desirable to procure the ? of the Delagoa Bay insect, as that sex differs greatly on the 
upper side in the West-African and Madagascar allies. 
