(507 ) 



b. Ch. lichas bebra Rothsch., snbsp. nov. 



<?. Wings above. Forewiug : black colour reduced; discal tawny patches 



SC' — R^ completely fused together with the tawny area, the black marginal area 

 only 3 to 4 mm. wide between 'B} and R- , tawny postdiscal interspaces R^ — M' 

 marked, or at least interspace R' — M', hence the black postdiscal patch R^ — M' 

 not completely merged together with the black wing border. 



?. Unknown. 



Hab. Great Forest of the Upper Congo : Diapauda, six days' march from 

 Ft. Beni (type), 10. v. '99 ; and on the 7th, 10th, and llth day during the march 

 from Ft. Beni to the Ituri R., the llth, 14th, and 15th of May 1899 (Dr. Ansorge) ; 

 5 c^c?. A (? in Dr. Staudinger's collection from the Paugani steppe, German East 

 Africa (R. v. Benningsen). 



r'. Underside of wings without a continuous line across discs. 

 86. Charaxes jahlusa. 



Nymphalis jahlusa Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. 177. n, 102. and p. 341. t. 3. f. 5 (1862) (interior 

 of S. Afr.). 



(? ? . Boc/'/ aboce tawny ochraceous, mesonotum somewhat olivaceous ; head 

 with a buff spot between the antennae, the usual four white dots, and a smaller 

 dot at each side near eye close to the posterior spots, palpi black above, antennae 

 black, tip tawny ; nnclerside white, creamy white or buff, anterior tibia, stripes on 

 sterna underneath legs, and part of the hairs on metasteruum blackish brown ; 

 abdomen with two series of brownish black patches which are generally merged 

 together to a double streak which is broadest in c?, the patches in ? often small. 



(?. Wings above huffish orange, with black markings. Forewing : cell-bar 3 



represented by a dot, bar 4 well marked, somewhat S-shaped, being concave 

 <listally in upper half and proximally in lower half, sometimes interrupted, 

 transverse, upper end not closer to cross-veins than lower end ; bar D heavy ; 

 «ubmediau bars M^ — (SM') a little distal of bases of veins M' and M^ respectively, 

 the second rounded, the first mostly linear ; median bars SC — R^ rotuudate or 

 •cone-shaped, preceded by a thin, longittidinal bar SC* — SC, 5 mm. from cell, bar 

 R2 — R^ close to cell, often merged together with bar D, bar R' — M' 4 to 5 mm. 

 from base of M', slightly inclining basad, bar M' — M- a little more proximal, 

 bar M'' — (SM') rounded, again a little more proximal, seldom followed by a short, 

 small, bar (SM') — SM- ; discal bars SC^ — R- triangular, patch-like, concave 

 distally, more or less obviously joined along veins to postdiscal bars, discal bars 

 R^ — M^ gradually less distinct, bars R' — M- often scarcely traceable ; postdiscal bars 

 halfmoon-shaped, contiguous, all produced along veins to outer margin, separating 

 buffish orange admarginal spots from the discal area, posterior admargiiial spots 

 halfmoon-shaped, upper ones elongate triangular, spot SC — SO* often wanting; 

 a thin black marginal line ; fringe white between veins ; outer margin deeply 



concave in middle. Hindwing : a series of short median bars, bars C — R" almost 



continuous, or bar SC^ — R' more proximal, bars R' — R^ close together, in front 

 «f point of origin of M', bar R' — M- sometimes vestigial, never clearly marked, in 

 many specimens the median bars obsolete ; one discal bar C — SC-, often merged 

 together with the median bar C — SC^ a spot in cell and larger spots at outer side 



