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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 
green, but the white dorsal spot was circled with light-blue. (This 
larva does not appear to have been described by Captain Harford in its 
final stage.) 
Pupa. — Bright-green ; spiracles reddish-brown ringed with white, 
diminishing in size towards last segment ; projections of head tipped 
with white ; some confluent white spots on wing- covers. Head rather 
acutely bifid ; thorax very convex ; wings forming slight lateral pro- 
jections ; abdomen making a great angle at the segment in a line with 
apex of wing-covers, the last segment prolonged into a pedicel bearing 
four tubercles. (H. C. Harford, MS. notes on Natalian pupa, 1869.) 
The white band towards costa of fore-wing becoming so attenuated 
and markedly macular, on the upper side, readily distinguishes Brutus 
from its South- African congeners ; while the under side is in colouring 
and pattern intermediate to a great extent between those of Dmceanus 
and Saturnus. 
I frequently met with this fine Char axes at Port Natal, and managed to 
capture a good many specimens at the " sucking-places " (on stems or branches 
of trees where moisture exuded) so specially attractive to butterflies of this 
group. On the wing, Brutus is one of the very swiftest of Nymphalidae, and 
it is difficult to follow its flight, except when it is chasing another of its species 
or some competitor at the drinking stations mentioned. I noted examples 
in February, March, and April, and Colonel Bowker took several in August 
in the same locality ; while in Kaff'raria he had noticed the butterfly's occur- 
rence in March, May, and June. 
Localities of Charaxes Brutus. 
I. South Africa. 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River H. Bowker), 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. "Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. Bowker. 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — "Angola /. Monteiro).''^ — Bruce. 
b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowley). 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Fernando Po {E. Bourke), Sierra Leone. — 
ColL Brit. Mus. 
b. Eastern Coast. — "Abyssinia, Shoa (Antinoi'i)." — Oberthiir [Var. 
Junius f 0 berth.] 
112. (10.) Charaxes Castor, (Cramer). 
^ Papilio Castor, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. xxxvii. ff. c, d (1779). 
Papilio Pollux^ Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 63, n. 197 (1793). 
Nymphalis Pollux, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 352, n. 5 (181 9). 
Charaxes Pollux, Feisth., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., viii. p. 255, pi. 9, f. i 
(1850). 
Exp. al., ($) 4 in. 5 lin. apud fig. Cram., 4 in.] 
$ Fuscous, with a tinge of bro7ize (greyish in hind-iving) near bases ; 
a common transverse ^ale ochre-yellowish band. Fore-wing : a dark spot 
