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obsolete, anal one olive bnff ; tails slender, acnte, upper one 4 to 6 mm. long, 

 second 2^ to 4 mm. 



? . Wi/iffs above. Forewing with a white band bordering the blue basal 



area, the band about 7 mm. broad, at SC^ °, slightly increasing in width posteriorly, 

 as far as M', then much narrower, partition M" — SM- trapezoidal, narrowest before 

 SM^, upper angle of cell and cross-veins black, sometimes also a black patch at 

 proximal side of band before M' and another behind M', outer edge of band concave 

 between M^ and SM', and here edged with blue ; white subapical (postdiscal) 

 l)atches as in cJ. Hindwing : as in <?, but admarginal lunnles larger. 



Underside. Forewing : white band as above, bordered pro.\imally by the 



obliquely placed, heavy, median bars, the baud contiguous posteriorly with the 

 discal bar JP — SM- ; yellow postdiscal spots heavier than in <S ; interspace between 



submedian and median bars M' — M- often all black. Hindwing : postdiscal 



and admarginal yellow markings larger than in i ; discal interspaces sometimes 

 with a vestige of a huffish band at the outer side of the median bars ; uj)per 

 tail of nearly even width, not acute, 8 mm. long, second pointed, 4 mm. long. 



Length of forewing : c?, 36 to 44 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 45 to 47 mm. 



Penis-funnel broad, blunt ; penis resembling tiiat of Ck. hipunctatus, the 

 ridge-like dorsal tooth less compressed proximally. 



Hab. From Lake Ngami northwards to the Lower Congo and the Massailand, 

 not in Cape Colony and Natal. In the Tring Museum 11 <?<?, 7 ??, from: 

 Lake Ngami (Wahlberg, ti/pc) ; Blantyre ; Likoma, 1. viii. 96 and 23. ix. 96 

 (Button) ; Zomba, x. to vii. 95 (Dr. Percy Kendall) ; Mineni Valley, Manica, 

 17. iii. 92 (Selous) ; Kuhiriri R., Angola, xi. 99 (Penrice) ; Mkengi, Lower 

 Congo ; Kariinia, Congo Free State, near border of Torn, 1. v. 99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



The individuals {SS) from Ngami, collected by Wahlberg, from which Felder 

 described the species, are much smaller than individuals from other localities, and 

 have the underside of the body uniformly cream colour and the nndersurface of 

 the wings pale fawn ; there are two specimens in the Felder collection marked 

 ti/pe ; others also so marked are in the Stockholm Museum. 



Mr. Crawshay, Ann. Mag. N. H. (6) XVIII. p. 09, says : " Very rarely met 

 with, and almost impossible to take unless when indulging its foul appetite for 

 putrid flesh or excrement. This specimen I took feeding on leopard's excrement 

 at the side of the path in open forest." 



/^ Basal area of forewing not pale blue. 



c\ cJ, hindwing with broad pale blue, or pale blue and white, band ; basal 

 half of underside of forewing not bluish grey ; ? , hindwing with a broad bluish 

 white or huffish banil. 



32. Charaxes xiphares. 



$ . Pajulin Kqiies Achivus xiphares Cramer, Piqi. E.r.it. IV. p. 171. t. 377. f. A. B (1781 ) (Cap. b. sp.) ; 



Fabr., .Unnl. his. II. p. 11. n. 98 (1787). 

 (J. Papilio Eqiiis .InjiMauliciis t!ii/esks Stoll, in Cram., P(y>. Ej-ot. Sujipl. p. 144. t. 32. f. 2. 'ii! 



(1790). 

 ?. Papilio Eqiies Arhii-us .ryj/hares (!), Jablonsky & Herbst, Nature. Schmett. IV. p. 47. n U6. 



t. 60. t.r>. G (1790). 

 ? . Papi)ii) Sijmphalis xi/iharm, Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. III. 1. p. 71. n. 221 (1793). 

 Enbopa thyestesm (!) Hiibuer, Ver:. bek. Schmett. p. 47. n. 432 (1816-27). 

 Eriboea xyphuris (!) Hiibner, I.e. n. 434. 



