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and more glistening^ loith transverse loliite hand in fore-wing. Fore-iving : 
white band less distinct than on upper side ; blackish spots near anal 
angle larger than in Hind-iving : a very indistinct, irregular oliva- 
ceous-whitish median band, outwardly edged with a blackish streak ; 
the dull-reddish, lunular markings, immediately succeeding band, 
larger and more continuous than in <J ; hind-marginal lunules as in 
but more conspicuous, and immediately preceded by a lunulated whitish 
streak. 
In a $ sent from D'Urban, Natal, by the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken, all 
the pale markings on the upper side of the fore-wings are suffused 
with dull-ochreous-yellow. In both sexes the extent and brightness 
of the glistening areas on the under side are variable, but the gloss 
is most silvery and developed in the costal-apical area of the fore- 
wing. 
This species is distinct from C. Ephyra^ Godt., with which I 
formerly identified it, but the two forms are closely allied. The ^ 
Ethalion is considerably smaller than the $ Ephyra^ and wants the 
latter's bronzy-greenish hind-margins, and two spots of the same colour 
about middle of costa of fore- wing; while on the under side it is duller 
and more ochreous in tint, and has the dull-reddish discal lunular 
markings much more distinct in the hind- wing. The $ Ethalion is 
very different from the $ Ephyra on the upper side ; to judge from a 
Cape Coast Castle specimen of the latter in the British Museum, in 
which the two macular series of the fore-wing are almost united by 
connecting suffused whitish-dusky rays between the spots. On both 
surfaces of the wings the ^ Ethalion bears considerable resemblance to 
the much larger C. Cithmron^ Fold., 
I met with this interesting Charaxes sparingly at Port Natal in January 
and February 1867, but succeeded in capturing female excamples only. One 
of the latter was seated quite on the bare ground, and had evidently only 
just recently emerged from the chrysalis. I was attracted to the spot by see- 
ing her flutter downward from a neighbouring tree. Colonel Bowker found 
both sexes on the wing in the same locality in August 1878. I believe that 
I noticed a in the edge of a wood at Knysna, in the Cape Colony, as long 
ago as 1858; and Mr. Streatfeild, C.M.G., informed me that he took the 
species in the George District in 1877, and in Kaffraria Proper in 1879. 
Localities of Charaxes Ethalion. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. — George District." — F. Streatfeild. Oudtshoorn 
{Adams). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — " 25 miles W. of Bashee Eiver." — F. Streat- 
feild. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. "Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. 
Bowker. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Coll. British Museum. 
