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almost horizontal, tip pointed bnt short ; tenth tergite short, ronnded, with the 

 vestige of a mesial sinus ; penis-funnel long, slender, gradually narrowing towards 

 the end, which is almost rod-like and forms a compressed hook the tip of which 

 points somewhat proximad ; penis short, swollen about 1 mm. before the end, with 

 a dorsal row of teeth which turns towards the left side proximall}'. 

 Hab. East Africa from the (!ape Colony to Nyassaland. 



a. Ch. jahlusa jahlusa. 



Nijmphalis jaklusa Trimen, Rhoi). Afr. Austi: p. 177. n. 102. and p. 341 (1862) (interior of S. Afr. i 

 Grahamstown ; Bashee R. ; non Zambesi) ; Gooch, Entom. XIV. p. 6 (1881) (Natal) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Diwn. Lep. p. 273. n. 53 (1871) (Afr. mer.) ; Wallengr., Ofv. Vet. Al.: Fork. XXXII. 1. 

 (1875) (Transvaal). 



Chara.d's jnhhisa, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. p. 637. n. 59 (1865) (pt. ; Cap. b. sp.) ; Trim. & 

 Bowk., 8. Afr. Bull. I. p. 325. n. 106 (1887) (Cape Col. ; CafEraria ; twn Zambesi); iid., /.'•. 

 III. p. 407. (1889) (Barberton, V.) ; Butl., Jnurn. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 371. n. 57 (1896) 

 (Cap. b. sp. ; Xatal) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sr. Vet. Ak. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 240. n. 50 (1899) (Cape 

 Col. ; CafEraria ; Natal ; Transvaal). 



(J. Abdomen below with two black streaks from base to end, mure or less 



merged together in basal half. Wings above. Forewing : cell-bar 4 and 



submedian bars well marked; discal and postdiscal interspaces mostly obviously 



paler than disc. Hindwing : submedian and median bars C — SO- rather heavy 



and mostly merged together, seldom entirely separate ; median bars SC" — M' more 

 or less marked, seldom absent. 



Underside. Forewing: apical area olivaceous, shaded with white; postdiscal 



white spots SC^ — R' obvious, the second ovate triangular, 1 to 1| mm. long; 



cell-bar 4 and submedian bars nearly 1 mm. broad. Hindwing : olive, abdominal 



area white or grey, seldom clayish ; white patches in discal interspaces contiguous, 

 patches M^— SM-' or M^— SM' mostly well marked, the patches very often much 

 larger than the olive distal portions of the discal interspaces ; postdiscal, interstitial, 

 white spot SC- — R' ovate, conspicuous. 



?. Abdomen below with two broad black lines which are partly merged 

 together at base. 



Wings above. Forewing: submedian bars about 1 to U mm. broad ; black 



discal triangular patches SO*— R" well marked, mostly followed by some more 

 patches ; discal and postdiscal interspaces SO^— R^ paler than disc. 



Underside as in c?, but white discal patches of hindwing comparatively (often 

 absolntely) smaller; white postdiscal spot SC-— R^ of hindwing often triangular. 



Hab. Cape Colony ; Natal ; Transvaal. In the Tring Museum 19 Jc?, 8 ? ? 

 from : Grahamstown ; Estcourt ; found from middle of August to end of September, 

 and in February. In a ? from Grahamstown the submedian and median bars 

 Ml— (SM') of the upperside of the forewing are merged together to two broad 

 streaks, median bar R'— M' is also enlarged to an elongate patch, while cell-bar 4, 

 bar D and median bar R^— R', and median bars SC'-R- form three more patches. 

 In this individual, as well as in another from Natal, bar JP— (SM') of the hindwing 

 is present above. 



b. Ch. jahlusa argynnides. 



Charaxes m-rmnnides Westwood, Prm:. Enl. Soc. Lond. (2). III. p. 10 (1864) (Zambesi) ; Butl., 

 Proc. Zn'nl. Soc. Loiul. p. 457 (1860) (jahlum distinct from nrgijimidcx !) ; Butl., .Touni. Linn. 

 Soc Loml. XXV. p. 371. n. 58 (1896) (L. Nyassa ; Shiru R. ; L. Tanganyika i Zambesi). 



