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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
115. (13.) Charaxes Phaeus, Hewitson. 
Char axes Phceus, He wits., Ent. Month. Mag., xiv. p. 82 (1877). 
Exp. al., ($) 2 in. 10 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 3! lin. 
J Fuscous, with a hroad basal blue patch in each %uing. Fore-iving : 
blue fills discoidal cell, and extends obliquely to inner margin (where 
it is tinged with whitish) considerably beyond middle ; a slightly 
elbowed submarginal row of six whitish spots (the three lower ones 
small and tinged with blue) from subcostal nervure a little before apex to 
second median nervule. Hind-wing : blue covers entire disc from base, 
leaving only a broad costal, apical, and hind-marginal fuscous border, 
and an inner-marginal greyish one; hind- marginal spots and lunules 
of the same colours and arrangement as in G. Ethalion, Boisd., but 
brighter and more conspicuous. Under side. — Ground-colour con- 
siderably paler and more reddish ; all the fuscous markings as in Ftha- 
lion, but thinner and fainter. 
$ Like Ethalion $ ; but with white transverse bar of fore-wing 
commencing conspicuously (somewhat as in C. Cithccron, Feld., ^) on 
subcostal nervure at end of and just beyond discoidal cell, and well curved 
outward, forming a wide band, edged with violaceous in its lower 
portion ; while in hind-iving the blue band is brighter than in Ethalion. 
Under side. — Paler and more glossy than in quite silvery in apical 
area of both wings ; markings similar, but white bar of fore-wing con- 
spicuous, and a narrow irregular whitish median band across hind- wing. 
This near ally of C. Ethcdion has the apex of the fore-wing, in 
both sexes, more produced than in that species. The $ has consider- 
able resemblance on the upper side to the much larger C. Bohemiani, 
Feld. ; but on the under side it is altogether different^ that of Bohemani 
being like that of C. Cithceron, Feld. 
The only specimens I have seen are a ^ and two 9 s in the Hewitson 
Collection, which 1 believe were received from the late Mr. J. J. Monteiro. 
Locality of Charaxes Phceus. 
I. South Africa. 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Coll. Hewitson. 
116. (14.) Charaxes Cithaeron, Felder. 
Charaxes Cithceron, Feld., Wien. Ent. Monats., iii. p. 398, t. 8, ff. 2, 3 
(1859)- 
^ 9 Nyniphdlis Xiyhaves, Var. A, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 169 
(1862). 
Exp. al., {$) 3 in. 6-8 lin. ; (9) 3 in. i o lin. — 4 in. I lin. 
^ Black, glossed from bases ivith violaceous-blue, and marked with 
pale violaceons-blue bands and spots ; the band in hind-wing suffused with 
