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lilne patch also behind SM-, these discal spots nearly equal in size, more or less 

 bufi", spots R^ — W and M^ — SM- more cream}', or all creamy white proximally ; 

 a postdiscal series parallel to the discal series behind, anteriorly curving costad, 

 sjiot R' — R° nearest the margin, the series posteriorly gradually retreating from 

 margin, spot M' — (SM') vestigial, spot (SM') — SM- absent, all bnff; adraarginal 

 spots small, ochraceons bnff, not well defined, upper ones obscure ; friuge restricted 



white at internervnlar folds. Hind wing : a blue discal band as in cJ, preceded 



by a large, white, discal patch C — SC- and a smaller, postdiscal, buff, patch, the 

 latter often shaded with blue ; submarginal spots buff, larger than in <}, last two 

 minnte, white with blue edges, admarginal bars all present, buff, not interrupted. 



Undeiside nearly as in S , all the median bars of forewing with a dirty white 

 patch at outer side, discal patch C — SC^ of hindwing and the postdiscal interstitial 

 spots of forewing larger than iu S ; tails triangulur, ujijier one 5 to 8 mm., second 

 2 to 4 mm. long. 



Length of forewing : 6 40 — 45 mm. 

 „ „ ? 4T— 51 mm. 



Clasper similar to that of Ch. tiridates, slenderer ; penis with a tooth 1 mm. 

 before the end and a short tooth-like ridge fartlier back, nearly as in (^//. l/i/ntnctatus; 

 penis-funnel very little narrower towards end, being of nearly the same width near 

 base as near extremity, the tip is curved down as in other Charuxes, but this 

 vertical jiortion is broad, not pointed, being ronnded triangular. 



Hab. Sierra Leone to the Congo, rare. In the Tring Museum 9 c?(?, 4 ? ? 

 from Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast, one of them canglit at Sierra Leone in 

 October 1898 by Capt. Stevens. In the Berlin Museum from Victoria, Cameroons ; 

 in Dr. Staudinger's collection a S and a ? from Borombi, Cameroons, and a 

 c? from the Gold Coast. 



In one of the S cj from Sierra Leone there are vestiges of blue discal spots 

 R' — M^ on the upperside of the forewing. 



Dr. Staudinger's ? from the Cameroons has the postdiscal spots of the 

 upperside of the forewing much paler than they are in our Sierra Leone examples, 

 and the blue band of the hindwing is wider. 



fl!°. Abdomen white. 



41. Charaxes pythodorus. 



C'hurarea pijthudonis Hewitson, Ent. J/o. Mag. X. p. 57 (187.S) (Angola) ; Auriv., Kaiiyl. Sr. Ak. 



Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 239. n. 39 (1899). 

 Charares pilhndofux (!) Hewitson, Ex. Bull. V. Charaxes. t. 5. f. 18. 19. ^ (1874). 



(?. Head, pronotum and anterior part of mesouotum mummy brown, ujipcrside 

 of palpi and meso-metanotum black, the last with white hairs ; abdomen creamy 

 white ; undermle of palpi and abdomen buff, sides of sterna and legs clay colour, 

 femora blackish above. 



S. Wings abore black, slightly blue in side-light. Forewing: basal half 



of costal margin chocolate brown, especially the veins, if denuded ; discal spots 

 SC — R' placed nearly as in ? of imperialis, spots SC— R^ about 8 mm. from 

 cell, small, not so broad as the space between them, spot R^ — R' close to cell, 

 spot R'— M' 5 to 7 mm. from base of M', these spots white, edged and shaded with 

 pale blue, white spots M'— SM^ to 7 mm. from base of M', a little larger than 



