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more or less obsolete, bars M' — SM^ bordered pale blae outwardly ; posterior 

 postdiscal interspaces pale yellow, the others more buffish, npper two with a white 

 spot each : jiostdiscal bars M' — 8M- represented by heavy black patches which 

 have pale blue, not conspicuous, outer borders, the outer postdiscal spots vestigial, 

 limited distally by jiale half-rings ; marginal, yellowish buff or jiale clayish, spots 



ill-defined. Hindwiug : basal costal bar close to PC, touching this vein at bent ; 



costal subbasal bar seldom marked, snbbasal bar C — SC;^ often feeble, barely h mm. 

 distal of point of origin of FC ; snbniedian bars continuous (or nearly so) from 

 costal margin to (>SM'), costal bar often curving distad, joining costal bar of median 

 series ; the latter also continuous, somewhat in middle, both series about parallel, 

 distance variable individually, white borders of the lines prominent, while the black 

 bars are often obsolete and always thin, except upper bars ; discal bars all arched, 

 the series deeply concave between C and I{-, the bars often obsolete, white borders 

 seldom prominent, postdiscal bars halfmoon-shaped, black, middle ones sometimes 

 nearly straight, generally much heavier than the discal ones, but often rather 

 ill-defined ; postdiscal interspaces more yellow than discal and snbmarginal areas ; 

 interspace C — SC" as large as, and generally better defined than, interspace SC-— R'; 

 a series of white snbmarginal dots, followed by blue and by black ones, except between 

 upper veins ; admarginal interspaces with triangular spots as above, rather paler, 

 shaded with blue npon internervular fold ; tails very short, upper one U to 2 mm. 

 long, second a mere tooth. 



?. Resembling ? oi tiridates on upperside. Forewing : shorter, white patch 



between M' and M- less oblique. Hindwing : snbmarginal spots smaller, white, 



with blue borders ; admarginal insterstitial spots interrupted. 



Underside as in c?, hence very different from tiridates ; white band of forewing 

 as above, patches M" — SM- distally limited by the black postdiscal patches, which 

 are smaller than in cj, no discal bar M^ — SftP, but the yellow interstitial halfmoon 

 vestigial, postdiscal interspaces much less yellow than in tiridates. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 41 — 44 mm. 

 ,, „ ?, 4.T— .51 mm. 



Penis with a tooth 1 mm. before tip as in eioletta, but the large proximal crest 

 reduced to a very low but long ridge, the penis resembling that of Ch. mixtus ; 

 penis-funnel as in violetta. 



Hah. West Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and to the Uganda Protectorate. 

 In the Triug Museum 23 c? c?, 10 ? ? from: Sierra Leone, Pt. Lokkoh, July 1899 

 (Capt. Stevens) ; Gold Coast ; Congo ; Great Forest of Upper Congo, three days' 

 march from Ft. Beni, 7. v. 1899 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Pt. Alice, Uganda, 19. vii. 1894 

 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Ran, Nandi country, Uganda Protectorate, 14. iii. 1898 (Dr. Ansorge). 



30. Charaxes violetta (Nov. Zool. VIL t. 7. f. 1. 2, 6- 8, ?). 



Charades viideila Smith, Ent. Mu. Mag. XXI. p. 247 (1885) (Del. Bay) ; Smith & Kirby, Rhup. 



Exot. I. Charax. p. 1. t. 1. f. 1. 2. 3. jj, ? (1887) (Del. Bay); Trim. & Bowk., .S. Afr. Butt. 



III. p. .?85. n. 38:5 (1889) (Del. Bay.) ; Monteiro, Delagoa Bay t. 1. f. 3. (1891) ; Bull.. Journ. 



Linn. Sor. Loud. XXV. p. 37G. n. 74 (1891",) (Del. Bay ; Zanzibar) ; id., Pruc. Zoul. Soc. Lond. 



p. 851. (1896) (Nyassaland) ; id., I.e. p. 852. n. 14 (189G) (Xyassaland, ? ) ; Auriv., Kongl. Si: 



Akad. Uaiidl. XXXI. 5. p. 239. n. 40 (18991 (Del. Bay ; Germ, E. Afr. : Bagamoyo, Pangani). 

 Charaxes xijikans, HoUaud, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mun. XVIII. p. 754 (1896) (Brit. E. Afr.). 



i ? . Body of cT as in the allied species ; ? , above olive bistre, abdomen hair 

 brown, white dots on head and collar conspicuous, underside wood brown, palpi 

 creamy bufl'. 



