(394) 



abdominal area of hindwiug not ecru drab. Forewing : white discal patches 



larger than above, postdiscal spots SC* — M* ronnded, with indications of the discal 



bars at the jiroximal, and of the postdiscal bars at the distal side. Hiudwing : 



white discal band seldom touching discal bars C— R', generally widely separated 

 from them ; submarginal area ecru drab or white only distally, white submarginal 

 spots rather large, bnt not well defined, white dots M" — SW, however, miunte ; 

 admarginal interspaces more or less gallstone yellow except distally near veins ; 

 upper tail 5 to 8 mm. long, second 3 mm. 



Length of forewing : t?, 38 — 48 mm. 

 „ ? , 42—54 mm. 



Clasper longer than in tiridates and allies, the hook longer and more gently 

 curved ; penis armed with a tooth 1 mm. before end, more or less obviously grooved 

 longitudinally before the tooth, a very feebly raised, long, ridge 3 ram. before end ; 

 penis-funnel broad, blunt, if viewed from above, apical hook Ijroad at base but 

 sharply pointed. 



Hub. Sierra Leone to the Upper Congo and Nyassaland. In the Tring Museum 

 35 S 6, 19 ¥ ? from : Sierra Leone ; Gold Coast ; Shabo country, Niger, February 

 1895 (Dr. Roth) ; Calabar; Bopoto, Congo ; Kassai, Aruwimi forest, three and ten 

 days' march from Ft. Beni, 7. and 14. v. 99 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Bandawe, Nyassaland, 

 April (F. Watkiuson). 



T^'h^ females from Nyassaland have the discal spots of the forewing above all 

 white, while in the specimens from Sierra Leone and Gold Coast they are more or 

 less cream colour, at least the upper discal ones. This difference, however, is not 

 constant, as there occur in West Africa, together with cream-spotted specimens, 

 individuals which do not apparently differ from the Nyassaland examples. 



In a cJ from the Kassai country, Congo basin, the cell-bar 3 of the hindwing 

 below is indicated by a black dot. 



(P. (S without blue patch in cell of forewing above ; ? with blue band on 

 hindwing. 



40. Charaxes imperialis (Nov. Zool. V. t. 6. f. 5. ?). 



Chamxes imperialis Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Lund. p. 531. t. 11. f. 3. ^ (1874) (Wliydah, Gold Coast) ; 

 Kirby, Cat. Diuni. Lep. p. 748. n. 40 (1877) (imperialis " Murr.") ; But!., Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Loud. p. 570. n. 26 (1887) (Rio del Rey, J ) ; Schaus & Clements, Sirrra Leone Lepid. p. 9 

 (1893) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 374. n. 67 (1896) (S. Leone ; Rio del Rey) ; 

 Auriv., Koiigl. Sv. Ak. Uamll. XXXI. 5. p. 240. n. 46 (1899) (S. Leone ; Ashanti ; O. Calabar ; 

 Bena-Bendi, Congo). 



<? ? . Body as in C/i. ameliae. 



<J. Wings above velvety black, greenish blue in side-light, slightly glossy at 



base, especially in cell of forewing. Forewing : three small, white, discal dots 



SC'^ — R^ upper two about 7 mm. from cell, dot R'' — R^ close to cell ; a band of 

 four small, white, postdiscal dots SC^ — IV, edged with blue, followed by a larger 

 blue spot, often centred white, and again by three turquoise blue discal ]iatches 

 between R" and internal margin, which gradually increase in width, patch at 

 internal margin about 5 mm. long, patch M'^ — SM- proximally sinuate at (SM'), 

 the series straight from internal margin to R', then curving costad : minute blue 

 admarginal dots, sometimes absent except dots RP — SM- ; fringe restricted white 



between veins ; apex of wing rather acute. Hindwiug : a tunjuoise blue discal 



band from SC^ to (SM') as a prolongation of the band of the forewing, about 5 to 



