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snbmarginal iuterspaces of hindwing more scaled white at postdiscal and sub- 

 marginal bars ; tails broader, upper one 7 mm. long, second 5 mm. 



Length of foron-ing : d, 41 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 47 mm. 



Hab. Shoa, Abyssinia ; found by Antinori in July at Mahal-Uong, Axaleua, 

 Feleklek, and Scioatalit (= Shoatalit). In the Tring Museum 2 c?c?, 2 ? ? from 

 Shoatalit, Shoa, January, June, December (Antinori j. 



Antinori says that the species was attracted by exudations of a solanaceous plant. 



/(". Admargiual patches of hindwing small ; tails acute, tooth M' pointed, 

 nuderside red chestnut, 

 e'. Discal liaud of hindwing tawny or pale buff 



55. Charaxes poUux. 



Fapilio Eques Achiviii jmlltu: Cramer, Pap. Exol. I. p. 61. t. .37. f. E. F {Villi) (Guinea). 

 PapiVo Eques Achiinn cnstoi; Fabricius (iion Cramer, 1775), Gen. Ins. p. 251. n. 30. 31 (177G). 

 Painliri Nymplialts Pliahratus cumulus Drury, Illustr. Ex. Ins. III. p. 41. t. 30. f. 1. 2 and Indei 

 (1782) (S. Leone). 



tS. Boihj above tawnj', darker in front than behind ; head with four rather 

 Indistinct dots and a postocular line white, a dorso-lateral strij)e on second, and the 

 whole third segment of palpi black ; underside tawny ochraceous ; palpi with a 

 white lateral line ; breast with black streaks underneath legs, bordered with white, 

 a white streak on mesosternum near base of wing ; anterior tibia and tarsus 

 white beneath, black or brown above, the other legs clay colour, femora black 

 above, with white dispersed scales ; abdomen with a white interrupted stripe at 

 each side, which is broadest and most distuict at base, where the stripe is bordered 

 black mesially. 



Wings, abijc ! : basal area tawny, followed by a broad ochraceous orange 



disco-postdiscal band ; postdisco-marginal area black. Forewing : cell-bar 4 



represented by a heavy spot, bar D also heavy ; median bars R' — M'^ as heavy 

 spots, spot R' — M' generally the larger, close to D', median bars SC°— R- elongate, 

 heavy, often prolonged basad to cell, followed behind R- by a streak which 

 represents the median and discal bars R- — R' ; discal bars SC— R' heavy, fused 

 together, the upper one prolonged basad, completely (or nearly so) filling uj) the 

 basal half of the cellule 80^ — SC'^; the black colour extends generally also along 

 SC' — R-, so that discal ochraceous orange spot SC° — R' and postdiscal ones 8C'— R' 

 are more or less isolated, all these patch-like bars black, discal bar R' — R- as well 

 as R^ — M' sometimes vestigial, minute ; black border of wing of about even width, 

 7 mm. broad at M', inner edge concave between veins from SC* — R- or R' ; 

 marginal dots generally jjresent, pale orange, minute, the posterior ones the 



smallest as is the case in Ch. brutus. Hindwing : discal area whitish towards 



costal margin ; black outer area widest in middle, its inner edge being nearly 

 Btruight, not following the curve of the outer margin, 8 to 9 mm. broad between 

 E* and R^ ; pale blue submarginal dots M'^ — SC* present, mostly merged together ; 

 admarginal sjwts absent or present, orange tawny, anal one olive buff ; fringe 

 whiti- between veins. 



Underside red chestnut ; bars heavy, black, heavily bordered with white, 

 placed as in brutus. Forewing : submedian and median bars M'— SJP generally 



