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fused to a large jiatch ; discal bars SO* — M^ or SC* — M' present, bar R^ — R^ behind 

 the short band of median bars SU* — R^; between short discal bars R' — M' and 

 median bars are two ochraceous spots ; white band somewhat pinkish behind 

 and gradually shading into the orange ochraceous postdiscal baud ; postdiscal bars 

 represented by black triangular patches which are bordered each with a grey, angle- 

 sliaj)ed, line distally, the lines at internal angle pale blue, separated from one 

 another between M" and SIP into three dashes ; veins with black patches at ends, 

 patches R' and R^ larger than the others, veins E^— M^ generally with bluish 



white scaling before end. Hiudwing : basal costal bar somewhat bean-shaped ; 



white discal band abunt as broad as the orange ochraceous postdiscal one ; median 

 bar M' — M- a little distal of base of M' ; white band with a tawny jiatch at costal 

 margin, followed generally by a series of smaller patches down to R' ; no black 

 discal bars except between M- and abdominal margin, these contiguous with orange 

 ochraceous postdiscal band, postdisco-marginal area of the same pattern and colour 

 as in Ch. bruttis bnitus, submarginal interspace M' — M- chocolate ; chocolate 

 intersj)ace behind black line upon SM^ triangnlar ; edge of wing sharply dentate, 

 tail R' 4 to 5 mm. long, tooth M' li mm., tail M- 3 to 4 mm. 



?. Similar to S, wings wider; disco-postdiscal band of upperside somewhat 

 paler ; abdomen beneath much more extended, the white scaling reduced. 



Length of forewiug : cJ, 36 — 45 mm. 

 ,, ,, ?, 41— 51 mm. 



Clasper narrower than in Cli. jason, hook very slender in a dorsal view, evenly 

 curved ; penis thin, somewhat dilated at end, not suddenly bent before apes as 

 in jason, without teeth ; penis-funnel obviously narrowed towards end, apex convex 

 above, turned downward to a sharp hook. 



Hab. Sierra Leone to Angola, Congo to the Naudi country, Uganda 

 Protectorate, Nyassaland, Manicaland ; not found in the regions between the 

 south shore of the Victoria Nyanza and the East Coast. A rather common insect. 



a. Ch. poUux geminus Rotbsch., subsp. nov. 



Charaxes pollitx, Trimen ();o» Cramer, 177:".), Proc. Zoo!. Soc. Loud. p. 41. n. 04 (1894) (Manica) ; 

 Butl., ibid. p. 252. n. 8 (18i<5) (Zomba) ; id., I.e. p. 720. n. 7. (1805) (Zomba) ; id., Joum. 

 Linn. Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 852. n. 8 (189l>) (pt. ; Zomba) ; Auriv., Kumjl. Sr. Vet. Ak. Handl. 

 XXXI. 5. p. 233. n. 8 (1899) (Zomba). 



c? ?. Hiudwing abori' with admarginal spots, at least the upper ones present ; 

 on the underside the hiudwing bears iu ? a triangular chocolate jiatch between bar 

 D and apical cell-bar : black abdominal line between SAP and SIP as a rule not 

 hammer-sliaped distally, postdisco-submarginal black anal ring of hiudwing sepa- 

 rated from anal edge of wing ; tails sharply pointed in both sexes. 



Hah. British Central Africa and Manicaland. In the Tring Museuiu Q Si, 

 4 ? ? from Nyassaland : Lauderdale (ti/pf-), Chipaika Estate, Baiidawe (F. 

 Watkinson), Zomba, December (Dr. P. Rendall). 



b. Ch. poUux pollux. 



Papilio Eques Achivus jioUux Cramer, Pap. Exot. I. p. 61. t. 37. f. E. F (1775) (Guinea). 



Papilio Equrs Adiinis castor Fabricius (««« Cramer, 1775), Gen. Ins. p. 251. n. 30. 31 (177(5) ; 

 Goeze, Ent. Bi-i/tr. III. p. 74. n. 16 (1779) ; Fabr., Spec. In.i. U. p. 11. n. 44 (1881); id., 

 Mani. Lis. II. p. 6. n. 48 (1787) ; Jabl. & Herbst, iVutura. Schmctt. IV. p. 57. n. 151. t. 63. 

 f. 1. 2 (1790) ; Gmel., Syst. Nat. I. 5. p. 2235. n. 301 (1790) (pt.). 



