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R'— R', which is heavy and stands very little distally of base of M', short median 

 har R'— M', long and oblique median bar M' — M" and short bar M- — (SM') which 

 jwints basad ; upon this band follows a ferrngiuons band which is ])roximally 

 slightly biconvex, distally irregularly biconcave, postdiscal black bars C — R' 

 vestigial at outer edge of this band, bars M' — SM^ marked ; submarginal bars 

 ■conspicuous, transverse, slight curving distad, bars M'' — SM* much more distal 

 than bar M' — M-, submarginal interspaces silvery white, except interspaces 

 M- — SM- which are olive black, including two blue and white dots, these last 

 interspaces not so white as the preceding ones ; admarginal interspaces ochraceons, 

 4inal ones fused together, greenish, with white triangnlar spots distally at veins 

 C — M-;' black marginal line broader between than at veins; black abdominal 

 lines without ferruginous interspaces between, joined together at ends by means 

 of the median bars ; discal bars (SM')— iSM^ present, interspace between them and 

 respective median bars silvery white, discal bar IP — (SM') vestigial or distinct, 

 short ; edge of wing very strongly dentate ; tails long, slender, pointed, tail R' 

 8 mm., tooth M' 4 mm., tail M- 9 mm. 



?. Like <S, larger, paler ferruginous, ferruginous admarginal interspaces of 

 hindwing all marked, but interspaces R' — M- divided between veins into long 

 triangular spots standing along veins ; tails longer than in c? ; snbbasal ferruginous 

 band of hindwing below not joined along (SM') to snbmedian band of same colour. 



Length of forewing : <?, 50 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 55 mm. 



Penis very slender, not dilated at apex as in druceantis, with a small tooth 

 I mm. from end. 



llab. Madagascar : Fianarantsoa : Ankafana, Betsileo. 



Mabille's Charaxes zoippus is nothing else but andranodorus ; the figure of 

 the c? of andranodorus in Hist. Mad., Lip. is drawn from a specimen of which 

 tail M* was broken. The species is apparently rare, as it is represented in few 

 collections by anything like a series. 



/(-. Costal median bar of hindwing below present. 



t^. Black postdiscal bars of hindwing below well marked, convex 

 proximally. 

 i^. Wiug.s above tawny, at least discal band of forewing. 



ff". Submarginal interspaces of hindwing below silvery white all 

 over. 



53. Charaxes phraortes. 



ChariLTea phraorles Doubleday, .-Inn. Mug. N. H. XX. p. CO (1847) (Madagascar) ; Butl,, ihi,]. p. 625. 



n. 6 (1865) (Madag.) ; Guen., in Vinson, Vuy. iladay., Annexee F. p. 28 (1865) ; Butl., Lej>. 



Exot. p. 26. t. 10. f . C ? (187U) ; Saalm., Lrp. Had. p. 86. n. 123 (1884) (Madag.) ; Mab., in 



Grandid., Uht. Mad., Up. I. p. 177. n. 1. t. 25. f. 1. In (1887) (Madag.) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 352. n. 5 (1896) (Madag.) ; Auriv., Koiigl. Sv. Vet. Ah. Handl. XXXI. 5. 



p. 233. n. 7 (189'J) (Madag.). 

 Nymjjhalii) phraortes, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. hep. II. p. 309. n. 22 (1850) 



(Madag.) ; Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 267. n. 6 (1871) (Madag. ; cil.faU. ! !). 



? . Bodi/ above tawny ferruginous, dots on head not obvious, white line behind 

 eye conspicuous ; underside ferruginous, middle line of pro- and mesosternum and 

 three oblique lateral lines on meso- and metasternum white ; palpi with a broad 

 white stripe which does not quite reach tip of second segment, third segment all 



