( -iss ) 



sometimes to apex of cell, sjiots 11'— R- sometimes joined together in the same way. 



Hindwing : band bordered with blue, the blue scaling extending basad beyond 



base of M'-; submarginal dots L'— H- obsolete as a rule ; admarginal spots 8(j-— R- 

 vestigial. 



Underside. Forewing : outer half of cellules R-— M' for the greater part 



drab, the submarginal bars present. Hindwing: postdiscal bars and white snl)- 



uuirginal spots somewhat wider apart than in the continental forms. 



Length of forewing : c?, 34 — 38 mm. 

 ?, 39— 42 mm. 



Ilah. Madagascar. In the Tring Mnseum 11 Si,'i ? ?: Antonamb*:', liaie 

 d'Antongil, iii. iv. "08 (A. Jlocquerys) ; Antanosy country. 



b. Ch. etesipe tavetensis (Nov. Zool. V. t. 5. f. 4. S). 



Ch'ini.res Irmiensis Rothschild, :\')7'. Ziml. I. p. 535. n. (1894) (Taveta) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. 



Land. XXV. p. 3S9. n. 146 (1890) ; Aiiriv., Kongl. Sc. V^t. Ak. ILmdl. XXXI. 5. p. 'i.'U. n. 14 



(1899). 

 Charaxes cacuthis, Lanz (non Hewitson, 1863), Iris IX. p. 142 (1896) (Parumbira, X.). 



<S. W/'/iffs aboce : as in cacuthis, but posterior postdiscal patches of forewing 

 narrower, patch M-— SM- measuring 4 mm. at the widest point, discal spots R'— M- 



widely separated from postdiscal ones as in etesipe. Hindwing: postdiscal blue 



patches C— R- much smaller than in cacnthis, separated from one another, the ujtper 

 ones not entirely contiguous with white discal patch, no white discal spots S('- — R-, 

 black outer area wider from R- to SM- than in both etesipe and cacuthis ; white 

 submarginal dots all present, but dot R'— R- minute as a rule ; admarginal spots 

 SC=— R= obsolete. 



Underside : as in etesipe, the creamy white discal spots of the hindwing larger 

 on the whole. 



?. Wings ahore. Forewing: markings creamy white ; discal spots R' — M- 



fused with the postdiscal ones to ovate patches, bars within these jiatches vestigial. 

 Hindwing : band bordered and shaded over with olive buff: rnfons red admar- 

 ginal spots SC"-^— R= at least vestigial, bluish grey admarginal spots R-— M- present. 



Underside: somewhat more extended drab than in cacuthis. Forewing: 



cellules R-— M' white for the greater part from discal bars to outer margin, discal 

 bars R' — M° obsolescent. 



Length of forewing : tj, 35—41 mm. 

 „ „ ?,42mm. 



Hab. East Africa, hi the Tring Maseum 'i 6 i from: Taveta, July 1891 

 {type); Dar-es-Salaam ; Zomba, Nyassaland, xii. 1895 (Dr. Percy Rendall). 2 ? ? 

 in the Berlin Mnseum from Uar-es-Salaam. 



The Zomba example has the blue postdiscal patches of the forewing above 

 more proximal than the other specimens, the patches being the same in position as 

 in cacuthis, and the band of the hindwing is also more proximal. 



c. Ch. etesipe abyssinicus Rothscli. snbsp. nov. 



Charaxes />(««<>«, Oberthur (non Godart, 1823), Ann. Mii.-^. Cii; Genova XV. p. 165. n. 44. (1879) 

 (Let Marefia, Shoa, Aug. '77) ; id., I.e. XVIII. p. 727. n. 55 (1883) (Feleklek, XII., Sciotalit, 

 I. IV.); Auriv., ?.<•. (pt.). 



<S. Differs from Ch. etesipe tavetensis as follows: Upperside, forewing, jjost- 

 discal patch M-— SM- larger, jiatch at internal margin e.xtended to angle of wing ; 



