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Head, thorax and abdomen fuscous above, rufescent below. An- 

 tennae very long, black. 



In the collection of the Zoological Society. 



Genus Charaxes. 



Charaxes Phraortes. Ch. alls omnibus supra fulvis, nigro lim- 

 batis maculatisque, anticis serie marginali punctorum, posticis 

 lunularumfulvarum; subtus saturate fulvis, fascia media alteraque 

 submarginali argenteis, maculis plurimis, vittisque numerosis ni- 

 gris argenteo cinctis. Exp. alar. 4| unc. vel 116 mill. 

 Hob. Madagascar. 



Above, all the wings fulvous, with a broad black border exter- 

 nally, broadest on the posterior wings, marked on the outer margin 

 of the anterior with a series of fulvous dots between the nervules, 

 and on the posterior just within the margin with a series of lunules 

 also placed between the nervules ; this border is irregularly dentate 

 within on the anterior wings, and divided near the apex by a row of 

 four fulvous dots ; not dentate internally on the posterior wings, but 

 less denned, being slightly shaded into the fulvous. The base both 

 of the anterior and posterior wings is slightly shaded with fuscous, 

 and the anterior are marked, in the cell, with two rounded spots, an 

 elongate subquadrate one on the disco-cellular nervules, a sub- 

 quadrate one immediately beyond the cell above the third median 

 nervule, a longer one immediately below this, and another broadly 

 lunate between the first and second median nervule, all black. Be- 

 tween these spots and the black margin is a short submacular band 

 extending from the costa to the second disco- cellular nervule. Outer 

 margin of anterior wings sinuate, dentate, of posterior dentate, cau- 

 date. 



Below, the anterior wings are bright deep fulvous at the base and 

 along the costa beyond the middle of the wings ; marked as above 

 with black spots and a short marginal black band, but all these mark- 

 ings are broadly margined with silvery white ; and there are, in ad- 

 dition to the spots of the upper surface, a small round spot in the 

 cell close to the base, and an oval one above the first median ner- 

 vule near its origin, both black with a silvery border. Beyond the 

 middle is a silvery white irregular band, narrowed on the costa, where 

 it is marked by four black dots, the third and fourth indistinct, 

 broadest on the inner margin, where it becomes of a pearly hue. 

 Between this band and the margin the prevailing colour is a pale 

 fulvous. A band composed of a series of silvery grey lunules com- 

 mences on the costa and terminates on the submedian nervure. 

 These lunules have their points directed inwards, and are margined 

 internally with black, those nearest the costa less broadly than the 

 others. The terminations of the nervules are bordered with silvery 

 grey, and beyond this with black, and the cilia are spotted with the 

 same colours. The posterior wings are bright deep fulvous, paler 

 towards the outer margin, traversed beyond the middle by a flexuous 

 silvery band. At the base, before the precostal nervule, is an oval 

 black spot bordered with silvery white ; beyond this is a macular 

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