( 390 ) 



A c? from Cameroons in Mr. Grose-Smith's collection has no admarginal spots 

 on the npperside of the hindwing. 



Boisilnval, in Delegorgne Voy. A/'r. Atisfr. II. p. 593, records tiridates from the 

 countr}- of Moselekatze (Ziiliiland), iu which ho was wrong ; the specimens were 

 either wrongly located, or they helouged to another species {xiphai-es or citkaeron). 



37. Charaxes bipunctatus. 



Chamxes hijmiiclat,i.-< Rothschild, Nov. Z.ior.. I. p. 53C. n. 4 (1894) (Gold Coast?) ; Butl, Journ. 

 Limi. Siic. Lvml. XXV. p. :i78. u 78 (189G) (Accra) ; Auriv., A'o«(;/. Sv. Ahitl. Ilamll. XXXI. 

 5. p. 240. n. 44 (1899) (Ashanti). 



c?. CUosely resembling Ch. tiridates. Mw^s aioiv, strongly pm-plish. Fore- 

 wing : onter margin on the whole less concave than in tiridates ; discal spots small, 

 two to five in number, jwstdiscal series represented by one small, blnish white, spot 

 SO* — SO' only, which is sometimes followed by traces of a second, blae, spot ; 



marginal spots as in tiridates, bnt less well defined, being shaded with black. 



Hindwing : postdiscal series of spots represented by two rounded dots (' — R', 

 variable in size, followed sometimes by a third, vestigial, spot ; snbmarginal dots 

 smaller than in tiridates ; admarginal interstitial markings ochreons bnff, jirominent, 

 slightly shaded with bine upon internervular folds, bnt not obviously interrupted. 



Underside more uniformly dark cinnamon than in tiridates and mixtits ; median 

 bars of forewiug as iu tiridates, bars M'— SM" mostly merged together to a rather 

 regularly cnrved halfmoon ; costal submedian bar of hindwing and median bar 

 S(j2 — Ri more or less straight, submedian and subbasal bars farther apart than in 

 tiridates, not curving towards one another at' C and M ; tails reduced to two 

 short teeth. 



? . Similar to ? of tiridates ; submarginal blue and white dots of hindwing 

 minute, admarginal buff markings prominent, as in d, not divided at the inter- 

 nervular folds. 



Underside as in $, bars of hindwing thinner than in tiridates ; white band as 

 above, discal bar M^ — SM- absent ; tails reduced to short teeth. 



Length of forewing : S, 44 — 45 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 47—48 mm. 



Clasper rather broader at tip than in tiridates, the hook somewhat different 

 in outline (PL VIII. f. 28.) ; the penis has the subapical tooth sinistro-lateral, as 

 in mixtus, but rather more ventral, the dorsal ridge reduced to a heavy tooth 

 (PL VIII. f. 9.). 



Hah. Gold Coast to Aruwimi Forest. In the Tring Museum 6 S<S, 2 ? ? 

 from : Kumassi to (.'ape Coast Castle, iv. 99 (Cajit. Gifford) ; Lukolele to Stanley 

 Pool (Harrison) ; 2 and 3 days' march from Ft. Beui, great forest of Upper Congo, 

 6. and 7. v. 99 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Gold Coast (?). 



88. Charaxes mixtus (Nov. Zool. V. t. 0. f. 1. ?). 



Chamxea mixlus Rothschild, Nov. Zool. I. p. 536. n. 3. t. 12 f. 8. ^ (1894) (Lukolele). 



Charaxes liridales var. iiii.rtiin, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lund. XXV. p. 377. sub n. 77 (1896) (pt. ; 

 (J, not ? ; Victoria, Cameroons) ; id., Ann. Mag. X. H. (6). XIX. p. 124. (1897) ; Auriv., 

 Kongl. Sv. Altul. IhnuU. XXXI. 5. p. 239. sub n. 43 (1899) (Cameroons ; Lukolele and 

 Katanga, Congo). 



The specific distinctness of this insect has been doubted. Messrs. Butler and 

 Aurivillius treat it as a " var." of tiridates, which term Aurivillius employs lor 



