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 46. Charaxes boueti (Nov. Zool. VI. t. S. f. '..'. c?). 



Charaxes boueti Feisthamel, A7m. Soc. Ent. Fr. (2). VIII. p. 2fil (1850) (Gambia). 



(J. Bod)/, above, clavish tawny ocbraceous, Lead, pronotum, anterior portion 

 of mesonotnm, and palpi ochraceons rufous ; underside creamy buff, palpi and 

 middle of presternum almost white ; palpi with a black dorso-lateral line ; anterior 

 tibiae and oblique stripes on breast underneath legs ochraceous. 



Whigs, ahoee, orpiment orange, marked with black, base slightly less bright 

 than disc. Forewing : no bars in cell ; bar D thin ; median bars heavy, patch- 

 like, bars R' — SM' gradually a little more proximal; bar R- — R' close to apex of 

 cell, touching posteriorly bar D, sometimes absent, bars SC* — R^ in the ordinary 

 {)lace, more or less triangular ; di.scal bars SC — M- present, mostly rather 

 heavy, bar M- — (SM') sometimes vestigial, bar SC* — SC'^ triangular, produced 

 basad, bar R- — R' extending proximad to median bar R' — R'', with which it is 

 often fused, bars R' — M" smaller, generally luniform, sometimes linear, spot 

 M' — M'' seldom absent ; postdiscal and snbmarginal bans fused together with 

 the marginal line to a postdisco-marginal band which is proximally incised 

 upon or at veins, and includes the orpiment orange admarginal spot.s, which 

 anteriorly decrease in size, spots M^ — SM^ fused to one patch, band 6 mm. wide 

 before (SM'), about 4 mm. upon fold R' — R- ; veins SC'' — R^ between discal and 



postdiscal black markings often all black. Hindwing : median bars C — R' 



vestigial, sometimes rather clearly marked, often with pale scaling at outside ; 

 a postdisco-submargiual band of variable width, narrowest behind, composed of 

 jiatches which are either separated or fused together, patch SC^— R' the largest, 

 3 1 to 5 mm. wide, somewhat prolonged distad at SC", as the other patches also 

 often are, but in a lesser degree, the band of about the same width as the orpiment 

 orange admarginal band, the difference in width not considerable, sometimes 

 patches R* — SM" obsolete ; submarginal blue and white dots M- — SM^ present ; 

 anal admarginal interspace olive buff; marginal black line thin, not interrupted. 



Underside ochraceous buff, slightly variable in the depth of the tint, the 

 bars thin, tawny ochraceous, except posterior bars of submedian, median, and 



postdiscal series, which are black. Forewing : basal third of costal edge silvery 



white ; cell-bar 3 separated into dots, no basal cell-spot ; median bar R^— M' about 

 4 mm. from base of M', interspace between median and submedian bars M" — SM'- 

 inostly bluish ; discal bars halfmoon-shaped, the series almost j)arallel to outer 

 margin, but anteriorly curving costad, the upper bars developed to ill-detined 

 triangular patches ; postdiscal series parallel to the discal one, interspace between 

 veins about 2 to 3 mm, bars ill-defined, posterior ones patch-like and triangular, 

 with whitish blue or bluish white scaling at outside ; internal margin more or 

 less extended bluish white.- —  — Hindwing : basal costal bar short, median bars 

 continuous, forming a straight or nearly straight line which crosses M just proximally 

 of base of M', often more or less broadly bordered with silvery white, as sometimes 

 is the submedian series proximally ; discal bars luniform, feebly marked, rather 

 close to median series, ochraceous, bar R^ — M^ only 1 or 2 mm. from base of M', 

 jiostdiscal bars often better defined and more tawny, but sometimes very obscure ; 

 buftish white submarginal dots more or less vestigial, last two heavier and with 

 blue-black dots at outside ; admarginal interspaces pale orange ochraceous or 

 ochre yellow, anal one olive buff; edge of wing dentate, tails acute, njiper one 

 3 to 4 mm., second 5 mm. long. 



