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Vet. Ak. Hnndl. XXXI. 5. p. 232. n. 4 (1899) (Senegal ; S. Leone ; Ivory Coast ; Ashanti ; 



Togo ; Cameroons ; Congo). 

 Xympluilh cfi.iloi; Kirby, l,c. p. 267. n. 7. (1871) (pt.) ; Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leop. Car. Al: yaliirf. 



XLI. 2. 2. p. 8. 28 (1879) (N. Angola). 

 Charaxes castor va.r. Jlavi/asciatus, Butler, l.r. (pt. ; Accra). 



<? ¥ . Winffs above : baud pale ochraeeons. Forewiiig : marginal spots absent 



or vestigial, the white scaling generally restricted to the fringe. Hiudwing : 



posterior admarginal, ])ale hlne, spots interrupted as a rule. 



Vnfkrsidi; : interspaces in liasal area varying from black to chestnnt. 



Forewing: orange ocliraceons postdiscal ])atche8 deeper in tint than m Jlavifasciatus, 

 in most specimens touching the black discal spots ; black, snlimarginal, bracket- 

 shaped bars heavier than in the eastern form ; white marginal dots minute. 



Hindwing : postdiscal chestnut band less deeply triangularly sinuate externally at 

 veins than m ^finvi/a.^ciatus, the sinus less pointed ; black admarginal line as wide 

 as, or wider than, admarginal interspaces. 



c\ Ch. castor castor f. castor. 



Interspaces in basal area of mvhrmh chestnut or deep cinnamon rufous. 



This form is comparatively rare. K fe.mnU from "Warri with short, uon-spatnlate 

 tails, has the rufous chestnut baud of the umlcr.sidi' of the hindwing very narrow, 

 the patches composing the band are, in fact, smaller than the respective submarginal 

 interspaces, patch R' — R- (for instance) measuring ii to 4 mm. in width. 



(IK Ch. castor castor f. godarti. 



Ckuraxes castor var. et ab. godnrti Aurivillius, l.r. 



Interspaces in basal area of underside black. This is the usual West African 



form. 



Hab. Senegambia to Angola, Upper Congo, Unyoro, Uganda as far east as the 

 Nandi country. In the Tring Blusenm :^n SS, 10 ? ? from: Sierra Leone; Gold 

 Coast ; Warri, Niger, January and July (Dr. Roth) ; ( !ameroons ; Congo : Stanley 

 Pool to Lukolele, Bopoto, Kassai; Fajao, Unyoro, 22. vii. '9T (Dr. Ansorge); Patsho, 

 Nandi country, Uganda Protectorate, 1 1 . xii. 'Ofi, and Rau, Nandi country, 14. iii. '98 

 (Dr. Ansorge). 



Why Prof. Aurivillius calls the form godnrti " var. et ab.'' we do not under- 

 stand ; the name of the West African " var.," = subspecies = geographical race, is 

 Ch. castor castor ; godarti is one of the two forms of this dichromatic subspecies. 



l^. Bars in basal half of underside with greyish olive centres. 



z'. Upperside with a broad maize yellow or orange band across both wings. 

 2°. Discal interstitial band of ujiperside maize yellow. 



59. Charaxes hansali. 



Charaxes han»aU Felder, Reiae Novara, Lqy. p. 446. n. 728. t. 59. f. 3. 4 (1867) (Bogos) ; Oberth., 

 Aim. Mm. Ch: Genom XV. p. 166. n. 46 and p. 184. n. 25 (1879) (Shoa, July, Aug.) ; id., 

 I.e. XVIII. p. 727. n. 57. (1883) (Ambo-Karra, VIII.) ; Butl., Jo,ir„. Linn. Soc. Loud. XXV. 

 p. 353. n. 9 (189G) (Bogos, Abyssinia) ; Sharpe, Proc. Zonl. Soc. Land. p. 370. n. 12 (1898) 

 (Somaliland, Wagga, 6000 ft., Feb.) ; Auriv., Koiigl Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 233. 

 n. 6 (1899) (Bogos ; Somaliland). 



Xijmphdis hanmVi, Kirby, Cat. Dhini. Lrji. p. 267. n. 5. (1871) (Bogos). 



<S ? . Bodi/ above olivaceous russet, abdomen russet olive ; dot before antenna 

 and line behind eye conspicuous; underside as in pelias, red brown stripes less bright, 



