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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Localities of Charaxes Felias. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Bain's Kloof ; Worcester side. Genadendal 
{G. Hettarsch). Montagu {L. Taats and D. Kannemeyer). 
110. (8.) Charaxes Saturnus, Butler. 
^ Charaxes Saturnus, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 624, pi. 36, 
f. I ; and ( 9 ) Lep. Exot., p. 5, pi. ii. f. 2 (1869). 
Nymphalis Felias, Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 175, n. loi [part] (1862) ; 
and ii. p. 340 [part] (1866). 
JExp. al, 3 in. 4-7 lin. 
^ Fuscotts, suffused with ferimginous-ochreous in hasal area ; a 
common discal ivarm yclloiv-ochreoits hand, and also a hind-marginal 
series of yellow-ochreons spots. Fore-ioing : quite as in Felias, Cram., 
but considerably prolonged in apical portion; outer part of discal 
band, beyond traversing series of black spots, consisting of more 
elongate marks ; lower part of band ratlier narrowed. Hind-wing : as 
in Felias, but the transverse band paler and narrower, with its lower 
portion more completely obscured ; bluish spots near hind-margin much 
larger; hind-marginal lunulate spots more generally suffused with 
white, — in the lower ones mixed with greenish ; tail on first median 
considerably longer than in Felias. Under side. — Very like that of 
Felias, hut genercdly h'ighter and clearer, — especially the fe7Tuginous-red 
of hasal area ; outer area with a distinctly hluish tint in fore-wing and 
greenish tint in hind-iuing. Fore-wing : two series of ochreous-yellow 
spots larger and brighter than in Felias, — the black spots outwardly 
touching the inner series much more strongly marked. Hind-iving : 
outer costal mark distinctly divided into two ; discal white band much 
narrower on inner-margin, and without the small curved fuscous mark 
below first median nervule ; series of ferruginous marJdngs externally 
hounding white hand much enlarged, prolonged, and acuminate, and 
followed hy an intempted, sharply and regularly angidated, fuscous 
streak ; submarginal lunules with their bluish internal edging expanded 
into violaceous markings, which become large and round towards anal 
angle ; hind-marginal yellow and white lunules larger and brighter. 
$ Like but paler and duller on both surfaces. 
The 9 figured by Mr. Butler {loc. cit.) is of very great size, expanding five 
inches across the wings, and is closer to the S in colouring than are the two 
smaller 9 ^ (from Damaraland and the Transvaal) which I have received. ^ 
Mr. Butler's example was sent from the Congo ; and it would be of interest 
to know if a correspondingly large form of the $ occurs there. 
1 A brightly coloured ? since received from Colonel Bowker (Pinetown, Natal) expands 
4 inches I line. Its fore-wings are considerably more acuminate than those of the specimen 
figured by Mr. Butler. 
