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white scaling, bars M" — SM-, however, present, closer to the postdiscal ones than 

 in the other subspecies ; admarginal interspaces (aual one included) ochreous ; 

 edge of wing bhmtly dentate, a very short and lihint tooth at M' ; tails shorter, 

 broader, and less pointed than in the other four races, upper tail 5 mm. lung, 

 second 4 mm., no tail at M'. 



¥. Like c?, but band broader, paler, blue submargiual dots of himhving and 

 marginal spots of forewing smaller; abdomen lilackisli brown above and below; 

 underside slightly tawny in middle. 



Length of forewing : cj, 44 mm. 

 „ „ ?,49mm. 



Hub. Abyssinia, recorded by Oberthilr from Shoa as being found all the year 

 round except in March and April ; in the Tring Museum are specimens (received 

 from the Genoa Museum), labelled Sciotalit, January, and Feleklek, February, 1880 

 (Antinori). 



Dr. Bntler, in his Revision of the genus Charaxes does not mention this 

 peculiar form. 



b. Ch. brutus somalicus Rothsch., subsp. nov. 



cJ. Similar to Cli. brutus Junius, discal band of upperside nearly as yellow ; 

 differs aboce in the band of the forewing being narrower beliind, being about as 

 wide in somalicus at SM- as it is at M^ in Junius ; further, in the baud of the 

 hindwiug being anteriorly also narrower than in Junius, having the greatest width 

 at W, and in the slightly thinner admarginal lunules. On the underside the basal 

 area is coloured as in brutus brutus, tlie bars are, however, as grey as in Junius, 

 but a little broader ; the postdiscal black sj)ots of both wings are larger than in 

 Junius ; the submargiual bars as heavy as in brutus brutus ; snbmarginal interspaces 

 more olive than in brutus brutus, much wider thau in brutus Junius, white discal 

 band narrower than in the latter form ; body as in Junius. 



Bab. Harrar Highlands, Somaliland, 1 c? in tlie British Museum. 



c. Ch. brutus angustus. 



Charnres bniitis, Druce (^noii Cramer, 1779), Pror. Zoo!. Soc. Loud. p. 412 (1875) (Angola); 

 Pliitz, Sletl. Ent. Zed. XLI. p. 11)4. n. 102 (1880) (Cameroons, vii. ix. .\.) ; Dewitz, Nov. 

 Act. Lcop. Car. Ak. Niiturf. XLI. 2. 2. p. 371 (1887) (Mukenge) ; Capronn., C. R. Soc. Eut. 

 Belg. XXXIII. p. 125. n. 6.'') (1889) (Kassai) ; Smith, Pioc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 472. n. 84 

 (1890) (Aruwimi) ; Godm. & Salv., ia Jameson, Story Hear Column p. 440. n. 79 (1890) 

 (Aruwimi) ; Sharpe, fris IV. p. 58. n. 57 (1 891) (Bauggala) ; Auriv., Enl. 7'idskr. XII. p. 215. 

 n. 130 (1891) (Cameroons) ; id., I.e. XV. p. 310. n. 18G (1894) (Cameroons, ii. xi.) ; Butl., 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud. XXV. p. 350. n. 1 (1890) (pt. ; Cameroons ; Angola) ; Auriv., Kongl. 

 Sv. Vet. Ak. Hand}. XXXI. 5. p. 231. n. 1 (1899) (pt. ; Congo; Banggala, Kassai, Aruwimi ; 

 Mukenge ; Angola ; Cameroons). 



<J ¥ . Similar to natalensis, but diifers as follows : — 



Wings above with a narrow band, that of forewing measuring only 2A to 4 mm. 

 before SM-, band of hindwing gradually decreasing in width behind ; very little or 

 no olive bine scaling along band on eitiier wing ; marginal spots of forewing 

 vestigial or absent, the posterior ones generally absent, but sometimes all as well 

 marked as in natalensis ; no admarginal spots on hindwing. 



Underside : bars on the whole heavier than in natalensis, basal area red che.st- 

 nut ; of the discal series of bars of the liindwing bars (! — BI' or C — M" absent, 

 interspaces between white band and black postdiscal bars tawny ochraceous, while 

 the snbmarginal interspaces are reddish chestnut. 



