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internal border by several brown spots. Anterior wing with several 
dark-brown spots in and below the cell, the bifid spot and rufous band 
as above ; two pale spots near the apex, and a black spot at the anal 
angle, and a submarginal series of white spots. 
" Exp. i^iches. 
" Hah. — Delagoa Bay : Monteiro." — (Hewitson, loc. cit.) 
Not having seen any example of this species, I can only give the 
above descriptions of the sexes by Hewitson, which were kindly fur- 
nished to me by Mr. W. F. Kirby, and which I have also since had an 
opportunity of consulting in the Journal in which they appeared. Mr. 
Hewitson did not figure the insect, nor could I find it mentioned in 
the printed Catalogue (1879) of his Collection. On consulting Mr. 
Kirby, he wrote in reply (19th February 1888), "I am sorry to say 
that Char axes Azota does not seem to be in his [Hewitson's] Collection. 
As it was only described shortly before his death, I think it probable 
that the specimens were never incorporated at all." 
C. Protoclea^ Feisth.,"^ to which Hewitson states Azota to be closely 
allied, is a native of the Western Coast of North Tropical Africa ; it 
was originally recorded from the Casamanza, but specimens in the 
Hewitson Collection are ticketed Calabar and Camaroons. Another, 
but much smaller, West-African ally is C. Antidea, (Drury),^ recorded 
from Sierra Leone and (Hewitson Collection) as far south as Angola. 
All three species appear to agree in the possession of a broad rufous or 
brick-red hind-marginal border, — a feature which should readily distin- 
guish C. Azota from any other hitherto known South- African Charaxes. 
Localities of Charaxes Azota. ^ 
L South Africa. 
H. " Delagoa Bay {3Ionteiro)." — Hewitson. 
IL Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
b. Eastern Interior. — " Nyassa (Thelwall)." — Hewitson. 
1 Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 1850, p. 260. 
2 lllustr. Nat. Hist, iii. pi. xxvii. if. 5, 6 (1782). 
3 I think that Charaxes Calliclca, H. G. Smith (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Feb. 1889, 
p. 1 30), recorded from Mombasa, East Africa, is identical with C. Azota, — judging from the 
published description only. 
