( 359 ) 



it ; iu ? the cell is often all white ; on hindwing the white area reaches the bent 

 of R\ 



On the whole the West African specimens have the outer half of the npperside 

 a little deeper in tint than the East African individnals. 



Three forms in East Africa, one of them only in West Africa. 

 <■/'. 



c? S . Underside clayish tawny, the bars feebly marked, partly obsolete, discal 

 line heavy, markings in onter region feeble, except ocellate patches C — SO" and 

 M' — SM^ ; gloss iu outer region prominent. The underside is apparently never olive 

 as in certain South African specimens. 



Common in East Africa. In the Triug Museum from Port Alice, Uganda, 

 July 3rd and 19th, 1894 (Dj. Ansorge) ; Kibwezi, Brit. E. Afr., April 7th, 1894 

 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Dar-es-Salaam, Germ. E. Afr. ; Delagoa Bay ; Zomba, October- 

 December 1895 (Dr. Rendall). 

 e'. 



S ? . Underside paler, bars prominent, markings in marginal area better 

 defined. 



The difference between form i'' and r/' is not so marked as in the case of the 

 corresponding forms of C/>. earunes uastrinus. 



In the Tring Museum from Parurabira, Lake Nyassa, October 23rd and 24th, 

 1894 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Delagoa Bay ; Chipaika Estate, near Bandawa, Nyassaland 

 (Watkinson) ; Ft. Johnstone, January — February 1896 (Dr. Rendall) : Dar-es- 

 Salaara, Germ. E. Afr. ; Mikindani, Germ. E. Afr., January — May 1897 (Reimer) ; 

 Mombasa, Brit. E. Afr. ; Mazera's, Brit. E. Afr., March 12th, 1895 (Dr. Ansorge): 

 Pabo, Unyoro, July 24th, 1897 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Hoima, Unyoro, August 12th, 1897 

 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Salomona, Eritrea, November — December 1897 (Schrader) ; Bogos, 

 Abyssinia (Hausal) ; and all over West Africa from Seuegambia to Angola. 



/'• 



(? ? . Underside irrorated with black scaling. 



In the Tring Museum from Masindi, Unyoro, April 14th, 1897 (Dr. Ansorge) ; 

 Mombasa ; Mikindani, January — May 1897 (Reimer) ; Dar-es-Salaam ; Delagoa 

 Bay ; Chijmika Estate, near Bandawa, Nyassaland (Watkinson). 



23. Charaxes fulvescens. 



Pdjiilio Nymphalh Gemmatus imranrx, Drury (noii Cramer, 1777), Ilhistr. Et. Ins. III. p. H and 



Index (1782) (S. Leone). 

 NymphaVs i-ermies (!), Godart, Enc. Meth. IX. p. 364. n. 48 (1823) (pt.). 

 PlniUnpliuxis vercmes, Blanchard, Hisf. Nal. /««. III. p. 348. n. 2 (1840) (pt.). 

 Pliiliii/iinnui rermies, Westwood in Doubl., Westw. & Hew., Gfn. Diiirn. Lep. II. p. 311. n. 2 



(1850) (pt.). 

 Palla vanities, Kirby, Cat. Dlurn. Lepid. p. "274. n. 3 (1871) (pt.) ; Mab., Bull. Soi-. Zuul. Fnince 



I. p. 280 (W. Afr.). 

 PnUit varaiies V2a. fnh-escens Aurivillius, Eiit. Tiilikr. Xll. p. 21lj. sub n. 148 (1891) ("type " 



Drury's fig.). 



c? ? . Differs from Ch. varanes as follows : 



Wings, upperside : basal area huffish maize yellow, not milky white, on hind- 

 wing creamy white at base and in abdominal fold; outer area darker than in varanes, 



blackish chestnut on forewing at costal and outer margins. Forewing : apex 



more ronnded, outer margin less concave ; median bars more distal than in caranes, 



