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hind-wing (on whicli the tails are longer and narrower) ; and, in the 
fore-wing, in the possession of the cellular black marks and the costal 
short fulvous fasciae. On the under side, the markings before the 
discal band correspond pretty nearly to those of Eudoxus^ but are less 
irregular, and with broader silvery (instead of creamy- white) edges ; 
in the fore-wing the discal band is silvery and continuous, instead 
of fulvous-ochreous and macular, and there is a costal silvery streak ; 
and in the liind-iving the discal band is much broader, and wants three 
of the four ferruginous spots which mark its upper half in Eudoxus. 
Compared with C. Brutus^ the under side has the submarginal mark- 
ings not sagittate ; and (in the hind- wing) the dark spots that mark 
the upper half of the inner side of the discal band are wanting ; while 
the stripe before middle is straight and continuous, and unmarked above 
the cell, instead of being (as in Brutus) composed of two distinct greyish- 
fuscous white-edged elongate marks out of line with each other. All 
the silvery pattern is far more brilliant than in Brutus. 
I first saw this very beautiful Char axes in 1867 at the Hopeian Museum 
at Oxford, in a collection made on the Zambesi by the Rev. H. Kowley. In 
1869 Mr. W. Morant sent me a ^ from Natal, with a note that it was not 
uncommon, but local, and had been observed from February to May at Pine- 
town. Colonel Bowker, ten years subsequently, met with the butterfly in 
the same locality, and sent me the paired sexes, taken on the 5th April 1879. 
Besides the $ of this pair (which is that above described), I have seen only 
one other example of that sex, in a collection brought by a lady from Natal 
in 1883. A ^ from Pinetown, sent by Colonel Bowker in July 1879, 
two ^ s from the Eastern Transvaal, taken by Mr. Ayres, are all the other 
South- African specimens I have seen. 
Localities of Cliaraxcs Druceanus. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal 
a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown {W. Morant and J. H. Boivl-er). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 
II. Other African Begions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Angola (Pop'^e)." — Dewitz. 
b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi (Bev. H. Boivley). 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.— Old Calabar."— Butler. 
109. (7.) Oharaxes Pelias, (Cramer). 
S Papilio Pelias, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. iii. fP. c, d. (1779). 
Nymphalis Pelias, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 351, n. 2 (18 19). 
„ Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 175, n. loi [part] (1862); 
and ii. p. 340 [part] (1866). 
$ Char axes Pelias, Butl., Lep. Exot., p. 25, pi. x. f. 5 (1869). 
Exp. al, 2 in. 11 lin. — 3 in. 4 lin. 
$ Fuscous, suffused with dull-ferruginous in hascd area ; a common 
discal yellow -ochreous hand, and also a hind-marginal series of yelloiu- 
