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snbbasal bar ; costal snbmecliau bar more basal than tbe other two submediaa bara ; 

 snbbasal and submedian bars C— M nearly parallel, rather closer together thau in 

 bohemani ; bar U thin ; costal median bar a little more distal than median bar 

 C — S(_'-, all median bars with rather heavy, white, outer border, bars R' — W con- 

 tinuous, ]{' — If- being very little more distal than R- — 11', while bar li' — M' is about 

 2 mm. more distal ; discal bars luniform, upper ones less well-defined than the 

 posterior ones, bars R' — R' more distal, all followed by ochraceous gallstone yellow 

 halfmoons, which are bordered distally by the ill-defined, more or less patch-like, 

 postdiscal bars ; a series of white and blue submargiiial spots, posterior ones suc- 

 ceeded by black dots ; admarginal interspaces tawny olive ; tails short, triangular, 

 blunt, upper one 2J mm. long, second 2 mm. 



?. Wivgs above : blackish brown, slightly pur])lish. Forewiiig: an oblique 



band of five patches, upper three between S(_'' and W 1 to 2 mm. from cross veins, 

 fused together, the veins being very thinly brown, about 4 to 5 mm. wide, patch 

 R' — M' 7 mm. from base of M', diameters 4 and 5 mm., patch M'— M' obliquely 

 behind it, very oblique, often touching distally the ])Ostdiscal spot, behind M- there 

 is often a sixth, small, white spot ; a jiostdiscal series of small spots as in S , upper 

 two white, the others more or less ill-defined, sometimes vestigial, buff; marginal 



dots ochraceous buff, indistinct, except dots M-— SM'^ Hiudwing : a very broad 



buff band occupying centre of wing from costal to abdominal margin, about 9 mm. 

 broad behind SC", 10 mm. in middle, shaded with fuscous behind (SM'), partition 

 C — SC" often whitish, mostly with a small spot at outer side, often rednced in size 

 and separated from rest of band ; band penetrating into cell, its inner edge ill- 

 defined, outer edge convex, not quite parallel to outer margin of wing, more or less 

 indented upon veins, subangulate before R^ ; a series of pale blue snbmarginal dots, 

 partly centred white ; admarginal interstitial parts transverse, ochreous or ochra- 

 ceous bufl', s])ots C — SC- absent, SC^ — R' mostly vestigial ; fringe white, except at 

 tips of veins. 



Underside somewhat paler than in <?, drab brown. Forewiug : bars as in 



(J ; median bar R' — R- often marked ; white discal patches as above, rather wider, 

 bordered proximally by the median bars, of which bars R'^ — M' are continuous, 

 interspace between curved bar M^ — SM" and discal bar also white ; postdiscal 

 interstitial spots SC — R' white, larger than in S, rounded, the following three 



white proximally, yellow distally. Hindwing : slightly paler than forewing ; 



median bars with heavy white outer border, which often develops to a white band 

 which is extended to the discal luniform bars, but remains more or less shaded with 

 drab brown distally ; white snbmarginal spots arched, blue ones rather large, except 

 upper two or three ; admarginal gallstone yellow interstices rather well-defined ; 

 upper tail of nearly even width, rounded at tip, 9 mm. long, second short, tri- 

 angular, blunt, curving frontad, 4 mm. long. 

 Length of forewing : c^, 43 mm. 



„ „ ? , 50 to 52 mm. 



Ilab. Cape Colony and Natal. In the Tring Museum 1, cJ 3 ? ? from Natal. 

 "This grand C/iarajrs," says Trimen, I.e., p. 348, "inhabits the woods of the 

 Cape Colony and of KaflVaria Proper as far eastward as the Basheo river. In Natal 

 it is replaced by the closely allied C. cithaeron, Feld., which does not as yet appear 

 to have been taken elsewhere. The actual district in Kafl"raria where xiphares 

 gives place to cithaeron is not known. At Knysna and Plettenberg Bay I met 

 with C. .li^ihares not uncommonly from the miildle of December until the middle 



