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Penis similar in shape to that of Ch. pelias ; besides the subapical tootli, which 

 is stroug, there is farther back a series of teeth of which the three last ones are 

 dorsal, the others sinistro-lateral. 



Hab. Abyssinia ; Bogos and Shea ; the mountainous parts of Somaliland 

 bordering on Abyssinia. In the Tring Mnseum A S <S , 1 ?. 



j". Discal interstitial band of npperside ochraeeous to orange. 

 (5i). Charaxes pelias. 



Popilio Eques Achirus pelias Cramer, Pup. Exut. I. p. 5. t. 3. f. c. u (1775) (Cap. b. sp.). 

 Pajnlio Eques Arhirus cuslor, Fabricius, Gen. Inn. p. 251. n. 30 — 31 (177G) (pt.). 

 Papilio Eques Achirus poUu.r., Gmelin, Syxt. Nat. I. 5. p. 2235. n. 302 (1790) (pt.). 



S ? . Body above ochraceons tawny, head and pronotum more tawny, dots 

 on head obsolete, white line behind eye conspicuous ; beneath dirty white, white 

 stripe on palpi very broad, the ventral tawny or brown line reduced basally to 

 a few scales, third segment black, second segment often with black or deep 

 brown scales in apical half along white stripe ; breast with oblique, dirty white, 

 black and tawny stripes ; anterior legs black above, white beneath ; abdomen 

 white beneath, bases of segments more or less extended fulvons or brownish black. 



<J. Wi/iffs above basal area varying from tawny ochraeeous to blackish 



brown. Forewiug : cell-bar 3 sometimes vestigial, 4 heavy ; no submedian 



bars ; median bars R' — SM'- in a nearly straight row, bar R^ — M', however, a 

 little more distal, bars R^ — M" very heavy, patch-like, straight or slightly concave 

 distally, bar R'' — li^ fused with bar D to a hammer-shaped mark, bars SC — R^ 

 large, fused together, bar IV — R- produced basad to near bar D ; discal interspaces 

 forming a pale ochraeeous band which is 5 or mm. wide at HW, of nearly the 

 same width up to R', broken at R^, the portion SC* — R^ being more distal than 

 the main part of the band ; the band limited distally by a series of discal bars 

 extending from SC to M-, the upper two bars larger than the others, fused together, 

 the three or four jwsterior ones often halfmoou-shajied, bar M- — (SM') sometimes 

 vestigial ; black postdisco-marginal band pro.ximally regularly sinuate between the 

 veins from SC* to M^, the black scaling extending basad along these veins, including 

 a series of ochraeeous admarginal interspaces which vary very much in size, and 

 are at least as wide as, generally much wider than, the black scaling at the veins 



which separates them, the interspaces M" — SM- often not separated. Hindwing: 



a triangular, pale ochraeeous, discal band from costal margin to M' or M", anteriorly 

 whitish buff, its inner edge reaching M' at base of this vein ; abdominal margin 

 of wing grey, abdominal fold brownish grey ; disco-submarginal area black ; pale 

 blue submarginal spots conspicuous, the posterior ones largest, the series generally 

 not extending costad beyond R', but occasionally reaching SC^ ; admarginal inter- 

 spaces halfmoon-shaped, upper ones pale ochraeeous, the others creamy white, 

 shaded with ochraeeous at internervular folds, anal one olive butf. somewhat 

 greenish or yellowish, size of these spots very varial)le, the sjiots sometimes touching 

 each other, rounded triangular, nearly as in C/i. Jason, while in other individuals 

 the spots are widely' separated and not thicker than the black marginal line. 



Underside reddish cinnamon rufous or chestnut, postdiscal and admarginal 

 interspaces of forewiug and upper admarginal ones of hindwing ochraeeous, discal 

 baud white ; basal to median l)ars black with centres olive grey, edged with 

 white. Forewing : costal edge in basal half olive grey ; cell-bars 'Z and 3 



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