( 374 ) 



sometimes represented onl)- by a few black scales upon (SM') ; postdiseal dots 



1{' — M^ often well marked and white. Hindwing : discal interspaces occupied b)' 



a white band from costal to abdominal martjin, broadest in front or in middle, 

 narrowest at (SM'), distally shaded with clayish olive and not sharply defined ; 

 discal and postdiseal Inniform bars variable as in <?, seldom nearly all absent, the 

 white distal borders of the discal bars often ])rominent ; upper tail nearly even in 

 width, 5 to 8 mm. long, second 4 to 5 mm. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 35 — 42 mm. 

 „ ,, ?, 38— 48 mm. 



Penis-funnel concave above to the tip, blunt, the tip thickened forming a short 

 hook ; penis with one dorsal tooth about 1 mm. before end, and a high triangular 

 ridge about 2§ mm. from end (PI. VIII. f. 10.). 



Hab. Uelagoa Bay to Mombasa and Nyassaland. In the Tring Museum 22 S 6 , 

 12 ? ? from : Delagoa Bay, Dar-es-Salaam, Taveta (June and July), Mombasa. 



The species is not rare in the coast districts from Delagoa Bay to Mombasa. 

 In the specimens from tropical (German and British) East Africa the blue 

 respectively white discal markings or bands are wider than in the individuals from 

 Delagoa Bay. In the c?c? the blue streak at the internal margin of the forewing 

 aboce is in specimens from Delagoa Bay 8 to 1 1 mm. long, in the individuals from 

 tropical East Africa 11 to 14 mm.: patch SC" — R' of hindwing is 4 or 5 mm. long in 

 the individuals from the one, 5 to 11 mm. in those from the other region, the whitish 

 blue scaling in the apical portion of the cell is more restricted in the Delagoa Bay 

 e.xaiuples, and the outer edge of the blue area is, on the wliole, less concave between 

 the veins. In the ? ? from Delagoa Bay the baud of the forewing is only 4 mm. 

 wide at (SM'), against (i to 10 mm. in individuals from German and British East 

 Africa ; i;he band of the hindwing is also obviously narrower both iibove and below. 



The Ckaraxes recorded by Dr. Holland from Brit. E. Africa, as CIi. .riphares, 

 I.e., belongs to C/i. violetta according to a sketch which Dr. Holland kindly seut us. 



(P. Median bars of hindwing below not continuous. 

 e^. Basal area of forewing jiale blue. 



31. Charaxes bohemani. 



Ckaraxes boheman'i Felder, Wien. Ent. .Von. III. p. 321. n. 2i. t. t!. f. 3. (J (1859) (L. Ngami) ; 

 Bull., Proe. Zool. Sue. Lontl. p. 630. n. 31 (1865) (S. Afr. V) ; id., Lep. E.eot. p. 28. t. 10. f. 3. ? 

 (1870) (Zambesi) ; Druce, Pror. Ziml. Sue. Limd. p. 412. n. 8 (1875) (Angola) ; Staud., Exot. 

 Ta(J. p. 170 (1886) (Vivi, Congo) ; Butl., Ann. Mag. N. U. (6). VII. p. 42. n. 10 (1891) 

 (Kandera, Oct.) ; Trim., Prnc. Zool. .Sw. Lund, p 81. n. 38 (1891) (Omrora, Aug.) ; Butl., 

 Proi-.Zonl. Soc. Lmid. p. G49. n. 21 (1893) (Brit. C. Afr;, Aug.) ; Selous, ihid. p. 16 (1894) 

 (Manica) ; Trim., ibid., p. 44. n. 70 (1894) (Manica) ; Reb. & Rog., in Baumann, Miinxailaiid 

 p. 332. n. 102 (1894) (Ulia) ; Butl., I.e. p. 256. n. 20 (1895) (Zomba) ; id., I.e. p. 720 n. 15 

 (1895) (Zomba) ; id.. I.e. p. 852. n. 16 (1896) (Nyassaland) ; id., Ann. .Mag. .V. //. (6). XVIII. 

 p. 69. n. 6 (1896) (Nyassaland); id., Joum. Linn. Sue. Land. XXV. p. 378. n. 79 (1896) 

 (Angola ; Congo ; Ngama's ; L. Mweru ; Zomb* ; Kandera ; Mamboia ; S. Salvado ; Zambesi) ; 

 Lanz, Iri.i IX. p. 143 (1896) (Tanganika) ; Auriv., Koui;!. Si: Ahid. Ilandl. XXXI. 5. p. 238. 

 n. 36 (1899) (E. Afr. ; \V. Afr. south of Congo ; not in Cape Colony and Natal). 



Nymphalia bohemani, Kirby, Cat. Dium. Lfp. p. 270. n. 32 (1871) (S. Afr.). 



d ? . Body above grey olive, four dots on head, a line behind eye and underside 

 of i)alpi creamy buff ; sides of breast and legs olivaceous, seldom creamy, underside 

 of abdomen creamy (d), or olive grey (?). 



