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cream colour, less white, soraetimes all these pale interspaces pale maize }'ellow. 



Forewing : bars as in cJ, discal bars Inniform or angle-shaped, rather thin, pnstdiscal 

 ones represented by patches or spots, often minute, externally more or less obviously 

 bordered with whitish, glossy, scaling, patches M^ — SM- black, fused together, large, 

 with bluish white scaling at outside, which more or less resembles the letter M, the 

 others russet tawny, but patch M' — M- often partly black, marginal area russet 



tawny, tawny behind. Hindwing : as in azota ? , median bars M- — SM- rather 



heavier, postdiscal ones also heavier as a rule, the glossy submarginal area sharper 

 defined in most individuals, the admarginal tawny or orange tawny, bands bordered 

 proximally by creamy buif bars ; upper tail 3 to mm., second a blunt tooth. 



Length of forewing : <?, 38 — 45 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 47—52 mm. 



Sexual armature as in Ch. azota, but penis with several extremely small, 

 teeth dorsally. 



Vein D' of hindwing joining M in S at point of origin of M-, in ? between 

 M' and M^ 



Hab. Senegambia to Angola and Upper Congo. In the Tring Museum, 

 21 c?c?,7 ?? from: Sierra Leone ; Gold Coast ; Congo: Lukolele, Bopoto, Kassai ; 

 Aruwimi forest, two, three, and ten days' march from Fort Beni, May 6. 7. 14. 

 1899 (Dr. Ansorge). 



The orange band of the forewing above is in the males from the Congo basin 

 on the whole more reduced than in the individuals from the northern parts of West 

 Africa (Sierra Leone and Gold Coast) ; the Congo individuals have also the under- 

 skle slightly darker. In one of our specimens from Lukolele, Congo, there are on 

 the npperside of the forewing distinct traces of the orange postdiscal spots SC*— R^ 

 of Ch. azota, and also some orange scales about 2 mm. from the admarginal band 

 between M' and SM^; this individual forms a kind of connecting link between 

 Ch. azota and ■protoclea ; the postdiscal orange spot (SM') — SM'' of the forewing 

 above is vestigial in many <;?<?; in an individual from Victoria, Cameroon?, in the 

 Berlin Museum it is rather conspicuous. 



f°. Abdominal area of hindwing below with tawny longitudinal lines. 



45. Charaxes cynthia. 



Charaxes cynthia Butler, Proc. Zuol. Soc. LonfL p. 026. n. \'l. t. 36. f. 3. (^ (1865) (Ashanti) ; id.. 

 I.e. p. 570. n. 2,') (1887) (Rio del Key) ; Smith, ibid p. 472. n. 85 (1890) (Aruwimi) ; Auriv., 

 Em. Tidsk. XII. p. 215. n. 138 (1891) (Cameroons) ; id., !.c. XIV. p. 310. n. 188 (1894) 

 (Cameroons) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 366. n. 40 (1896) (O. Calabar ; Rio 

 del Rey ; Cameroons ; Angola) ; Auriv., Kn/igl. Sr. Vet. Ak. Himdl. XXXI. 5. p. 235. n. 21 

 (1899) (Ashanti ; O. Calabar ; Cameroons ; Kuilu ; Aruwimi ; Njam Njam ; Angola). 



Nymphulis cynthia, Kirby, Cut. Diurn. Lep. p. 268. n. 11 (1871) ; Dewitz, Xov. Act. Lenj). Car. Ak. 

 Naturf. XLI. 2. p. 28 (1879) (Angola). 



?. Charaxes Ii/sia7uissa Westwood, Thes. Oxon. p. 181. t. 34. f. 3. 4 (1874) (Ashanti). 



cJ Body al/ove somewhat brighter than in liK/vtius, but darker than in boucti, 

 white dots on prouotum as in boue.ti ; below as in houeti, breast slightly darker 

 laterally. 



Wings, upperside, similar to that of Ittcretiu.s, but without the bine gloss. 



Forewing : cell and base behind cell brighter than in lucretius, deep orange rufous ; 



