(428 ) 



Papilio camulua Drury, Illxistr. Exot. Im. III. p. 41. t. 30. f. 1. 2 (1782) (S. Leone). 



Papilio Ni/mphalis castnr, Fabricins, Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 63. n. 196 (1793) (Guinea). 



Erihoeti jmlusm (!), Hlibner, V(rz. hek Srhmell. p. 47. n. 427 (1816-27). 



Papilio castor, Donovan, AVl^ Reposit. II. t. 116 (18'26). 



Papilio camilhig, id., l.r. 



.Xymphalis castor, Godart, Enc. MMi. IX. p. 351. n. 4 (1823) (Guinea) ; Doubl., Westw. & Hew., 



Gen. Diurn. L,p. II. p. 308. n. 3 (1850) (S. Leone ; Congo). 

 Clmrares castor, Doubleday, List ftpec. Lrp. In>s. Brit. Mus. I. p. 110 (1844) (S. Leone ; Congo) ; 



Bull., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnud. p. 623. n. 7 (1865) (S. Leone; Congo). 

 Charaxes poUiLc, Butler, Cat. Diurn. Lep. di'xer. hi/ Fahr. p. 53. n. 14 (1869) (S. Leone) ; Druce, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Land. p. 416 (1875) (Angola) ; But]., ibiil., p. 60. n. 16 (1888) (Monbutlu, Equat. 



Afr.) ; Auriv., Ent. Tidsl.r. XXI. p. 214. n. 134 (1891) (Cameroons) ; Schaus & Clement.^ Sierra 



Leone Lej.id. p. 8 (1893) ; Auriv., I.e. XV. p. 310. n. 185 (1894) (Cameroons) ; Reb. & Rog., 



in Baumann, Massailand p. 332. n. 37 (1894) (Xorth Urundi) : Butl., Joiirn. Linn. Soc. Land. 



XXT. p. 352. n. 8 (1890) (pt. ; S. Leone : Angola ; Monbuttu) ; Auriv., Knngl. Sr. Vet. Ak. 



Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 233. n. 8 (1899) (pt. : Senegal : S. Leone ; Ashanti ; Cameroons ; Gaboon ; 



Chinchoxo ; Angola ; Monbnttn). 

 XymphalispoUiu-, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 267. n. 3 (1871) (.■iyn. ex parte!). 

 Xymphalis castor, id.. I.e. n. 7 (1871) (syn. ex parte !). 



6. No adinarginal spots on hiudwing a/joi-e except the olive bnff anal one 

 which is occasionally ])reseut ; on underside the anal ring of the hindwitig touches 

 the edge of the wing, the black line between SM^ and SM' is dilated at end, and 

 in ? bar D of hindwing is so close to aj)ical cell-bar that there is no or little 

 chocolate scaling between them. 



Ilab. Sierra Leone to Angola and the Uganda Protectorate. In the Tring 

 Mnseiim 24 <JcJ, 14 ? ? from: Sierra Leone; Accra, Gold Coast; Gaboon R. ; 

 Bopota, Upp. Congo ; Pt. Alice, Uganda, 19. vii. '94 (Dr. Ausorge) ; Nandi 

 Station, Uganda Protectorate, 10. xii. '96 (Dr. Ansorge). 



f. Discal interstitial band of hindwing above bluish white. 



56. Charaxes ansorgei (Nov. Zool. V. t. 5. f. 2. 6). 



Charaa-es ansorgei Rothschild, Nov. Zool. IV. p. 181. n. 5. (1897) (Patsho, Nandi Country, Dec. 11, 

 1896) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. nandi. XXXI. 5. p. 231. n. 2a. and p. 638 (1899). 



(?. Bodij, above, pale chestnut, dots on head obsolete, line behind eye creamy 

 buff; heloic brownish clay colour, with pale chestnut oblicjue streaks on breast, 

 abdomen clayish chestnut ; paljii buff, with a thin white lateral line, free portion of 

 palpi with a broad black dorso-lateral stripe ; legs clay colour, femora black above 

 with the usual sprinkling of pale scales, anterior tibia and tarsus brown above, 

 white beneath. 



Wings, ahore. Forewing : basal area tawny chestnut ; cell-bar 4 transverse, 



about 2^ mm. long, bar D as in plioebus ; median bars M" — SM" small, ill-defined, 

 bars 11^ — M- represented by large patches, patch M' — M"' halfmoon-shaped, diameters 

 3 and 4 mm., patch W — M' broader, median bar R- — R' close to bar D, but 

 separated from it, rounded, bars SC^— R-' as large patches, fused together, disco- 

 postdiscal band tawny orange, separated into jiatches by the black veins ; discal 

 bars SC^— R' heavy, confluent, joined at veins to postdisco-marginal area, bar 

 R-— R' thinner, bar R-— R^ more basal, dilated basad, bar R'— M' represented by a 



dot, bar M'— M^ vestigial ; marginal dots orange ochraceous, small. Hindwing : 



purplish black, base more brown ; a white discal baud, slightly shaded with buff, 

 about 4 mm. broad at SC-, dilated between SC' and W owing to an extended bluish 



