(439 )  



spots present, seldom only vestigial ; basal area iu most individuals rather paler, 

 cell-bar 4 often vestigial, not rarely bordered by two pale buff spots ; some indi- 

 viduals, especially ? ? , bave a vestige of a pale bntf spot before the base of R'. • 



Hindwing : snbmarginal interstitial lunules mostly not interrupted at ioteruervular 

 folds in c?. 



Underside : interspaces in basal area chestnut, very seldom black, bars rather 



thinner than iu the west coast form. Forewing : postdiscal pale ocliraceous spots 



not touching black discal spots ; marginal white spots conspicuous. Hindwing : 



chestnut band on the whole less broad than in castor castor, more deeply siiuiate 

 distally at 0, SC", and R\ the sinus sometimes extending to near proximal edge 

 of this baud ; submargiual bars and marginal line rather thinner than in castor 

 castor, hence pale yellow admarginal interspaces larger. 



«'. Ch. castor flavifasciatus f. flavifasciatus. 



Interspaces of basal half of underside chestnut. 

 This is the ordinary East African form. 



i'. Ch. castor flavifasciatus f. reimeri Rothsch., nov. 



Interspaces of basal half of underside black. Type from Dar-es-Salaam. 



This form is very rare. 



In a gynandromorpbous individual in the Tring Museum from Mikindani, 

 German E. Africa, collected by Herr Reimer, the interspaces of the basal area of the 

 underside are chestnut on the c?-wings, black on the ? -wings. 



Hub. East Africa, from Nyassaland and Delagoa Bay to Somaliland. In the 

 Tring Museum 18 tJcJ, 8 ¥ ? from: Delagoa Bay; Likoma, Nyassa, vi. vii.; Zomba, 

 December 1895 (Dr. P. Rendall) ; Parumbira, October (Dr. Ansorge) ; Mikindani ; 

 Lindi ; Taveta, vi. vii. '90 ; Dar-es-Salaam. 



b. Ch. castor castor. 



Papllio Eqiies Arkifus cantor Cramer, I.e. 



Papilio Eques Achirus jmlhix, Fabricius (uon Cramer, 1775), Ge/i. Iiis. p. 251 (1776) ; Goeze, Enl. 



Beijtr. III. 1. p. 75. n. 17 (1779) ; Fabr., Spec. Li.i. II. p. 11. n. 45 (1781) ; id., Mend. Lis. II. 



p. 6. n. 49 (1787) ; Herbst, Naturs. SchmHt. IV. p. GO. n. 15-2. t. 63. f. 3. 4 (1790) ; Gmelin, 



Syst. Nat. I. 5. p. 2-235. n. 302 (1790). 

 Papilio Nymjihatis pulhi.r,, Fabricius, E)it. Syst. III. 1. p. 63. n. 197 (1793). 

 Eriboca castoris (!), Hiibner, Verz. hek. Schmett. p. 47. n. 426 (1810-27). 

 Nymphilis pijllu.r, Godart, Eiic. Metli. IX. p. 352. n. 5 (1823) (Guinea) ; Lucas, Lcp. Ex. p. 119. 



t. 62. f . 1 (1835) (Guinea) ; Doubl., Westw. & Hew., Goi. Diuni. Lrp. II, p. 308. d. 4 (18.=)0) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Dinrn. Lrp. p. 267. n. 3. (1871) (pt.). 

 Charaxes polluT, Doubleday, L/.s-( Sj>ec. Lep. Lis. Brit. Mus. I. p. 110 (1844) (Ashanti) ; Feisth., 



Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. p. 255. n. 8. t. 9. f. 1. ? (1850) (Senegal) ; Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. 



p. 623. n. 3. (1805) (Ashanti ; Guinea). 

 Charti.rcs castor, Butler, Cat. Diiirn. Lep. ticsir. Fithr. p. 53. n. 15 (1869) (S. Leone) ; Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 412 (1875) (Angola) ; Stand., Exot. Tar/f. p. 168 (1886) (Senegal, Cameroons, 



Fernando Po) ; Capi-onn., C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXXIII. p. 146. n. 75 (1889) (Gaboon) ; Mab., 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Pr. (0). X. p. 23 (1890) (Assinie) ; MOsch., Ahh. Senk. Ges. XV. p. 61 (1890) 



(Aburi) ; Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 472. n. 83 (1800) (Aruwimi) ; Godm. ct Salv., in 



Jameson, Story of Rmr Column, p. 4.39. n. 78 (1890) (Aruwimi) ; Auriv., Ent. Tidskr. XII. 



p. 214. n. 135 (1891) (Cameroon.«) : Karsch, Ent. Nachr. XVIII. p. 176. n. 51 (1892) (Togo) ; 



id., Berl. Enl. Zeilschr. XXXVIII. p. 187. n. 51 (1893) (Adeli) ; Auriv., I.e. XV. p. 309. n. 184 



(1894) (Cameroons, IV. XI.) ; Butl., .Journ. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 353. n. 10 (1890) (pt. ; 



S. Lcono ; Ashanti ; 0. Calabar ; Cameroons ; Angola ; Fernando Po) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. 



