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Lrown median band with obvions white spots ; white postdiscal interstitial spots 

 C—W small, spot R^— R' the largest ; white snbmarginal interstitial spots SC=— R' 

 nearly 2 mm. broad, the brown postdiscal baud separating them from the white 

 postdiscal spots nearly of the same width behind S(J- as those white submargiual 

 spots ; distance from point of origin of M''' to tip of tail 20 mm. 



Length of forewing : J, 29 — 31mm. 

 „ „ ?, 34— 37 mm. 



Ilab. Madagascar. In the Tring Mnsenm 13 <SS, 1 ?, partly from 

 Morondawa. 



Aurivillius, I.e., remarks correctly that Mabille's figure of " relatm Butler " 

 is drawn from a mutilated specimen. The differences between relatiis and betsimi- 

 seraka are individual; there is no absolute constancy of markings in any species. 



r^. Black scaling of hindwing above reduced to a very thin marginal line 

 between C and R'. 



9u. Charaxes kahldeni. 



Charaxes kahldeni Homeyer & Dewitz, Bei-l. Etit. Zeitaehr. XXVI. p. 381. t. 7. f. 1. cJ. 2. J (1882) 

 (Angola) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lnnd. XXV. p. 370. n. 52 (1896) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vel. 

 AL: Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 253. n. 63 (1899) (Kamerun ; Angola). 



(? ?. Body above olive grey, anterior part of thorax, and head, olive cinnamon, 

 four white dots on head, white line behind eye very thin, or divided into two dots. 

 Umlerside white, streaks on breast underneath legs brown, abdomen with clayish 

 spots. 



(?. Winns upperside, white with a slight greenish tint, somewhat opalescent 



in side-light. Forewing : costal margin brown proximally, brownish black 



distally ; bar D marked in front ; median bar SC'— R' represented by a black spot, 

 varying in size, sometimes absent, 4 to 5 mm. from cell, occasionally preceded by a 

 tiny dot ; discal bars R-— SM^ continuous, posterior ones seldom marked, often 

 all obsolete ; bars SC— R- completely merged together with the black postdisco- 

 marginal band, there being in the black apical area thus formed only one postdiscal 

 white spot of variable size, while white postdiscal interspaces R^— SM^ are not, 

 or not obviously, separated from one another, there is sometimes a second small 

 white spot at the distal side of discal bar R'— R- ; black postdisco-marginal baud 

 slightly concave between veins, U mm. broad at (SM') ; outer margin angled or 



rounded at SC\ Hindwing : no median and discal bars, but there is sometimes 



a trace of one discal bar at abdominal margin close to anal angle ; postdiscal bars 

 M-— SM- joined to the submargiual one? to form small rings close to the margin 

 with pale bine centres, postdiscal bar M'— M^ sometimes vestigial, while the 

 submargiual bar M' — M^ is marked as a transverse line, in some specimens the 

 submargiual bars SG-— M' are also present ; a thin black marginal line ; anal 

 admarginal interspace ochreous, tail black with a thin bluish white line. 



Underside white, slightly greenish, a little glossy in side-light ; markings 



mummy brown. Forewing : costal margin, to which a dot in middle of cell is 



joined, a median band situated as in xoolina, but rather thinner behind, mostly 

 including white dot anteriorly, a median spot SC'— R' joined to the costal streak, 

 3 to 4 mm. from cell, a discal continuous band curved costad in front, about 

 U mm. wide in middle, thinner behind, 5 mm. from outer margin at R' and 



