( 504 ) 



spots concave distally, larger than in (J, snbmarginal bars also heavy in most 

 examples . 



Underside mnch paler than m 3, pinkish bnff, shaded with clay colour, 

 markings as in <?, veins more obviously green. 



Length of forewing : c?, 27 — 32 mm. 

 ,, „ 2 , 33 mm. 



Clasper similar to that of Ck. lichas, bnt the tooth before the apex is more 

 dorsal, appearing as process of the dorsal edge of the clasper ; penis-fnnnel shorter 

 than in liclias, more suddenly narrowed, apical rod-like portion thinner ; penis with 

 the teeth more dispersed. 



Hab. West Africa from Sierra Leone to Angola and the Upper Congo and 

 Arnwimi Rivers. In the Tring Museum \2 S S from: S. Leone; Knmassi to 

 Cape Coast Castle, iv. '99 (Capt. GitfarJ) ; Lnkolele, C'ongo ; Sakarumbi, one day's 

 march from Ft. Beni, Congo Free State, 5. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



h^. Forewing not falcate, line across underside of forewing not curved, bars in 

 outer half of hindwing below distinct. 



85. Charaxes lichas. 



(J. Philognoma lichas Doubleday, in Donbl., Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. II. t. 49. f . 3. ^ 

 (1860). 



(? ? . Head, pro- and mesonotum olive tawny, the last in ? more olive buff, 

 metanotum and abdomen tawny {S) or ochraceous (?), palpi and antennae brown, 

 four white dots on head, and a short line behind eye white, occasionally a double 

 dot before antennae ; underside buff in cJ, creamy buff in ¥ . 



S. Wings, upper side, tawny orange, with a strong reddish purplish sheen in 



side-light. Forewing : in the darkest specimens apical half black, this area 



reaching cross-veins and extending basad at costal margin, often entering upper 

 angle of cell, at M^ the area is suddenly narrowed to a marginal band of 3 to 4 mm 

 breadth, which reaches down to internal margin, the edge of the margin remaining 

 generally tawny orange ; the area includes in many specimens some tawny orange 

 spots, namely, a discal interstitial spot R^ — R' close to cell, often completely 

 merged together with the basal area, two discal spots SC — R'^ about 6 to 7 mm. 

 from cell, a discal spot R^— M' 4 mm. from base of M', two postdiscal spots R' — R^ 

 4 mm. from outer margin, and two postdiscal spots M' — SM-, the latter snbdivided, 

 all these spots or some of them often absent ; occasionally there is a submarginal 

 spot M-— SM- present, in which case the admarginal, submarginal and postdiscal 

 bars M- — SM- are recognisable ; median bars R' — M- often vestigial ; in the palest 

 specimens the discal and upper postdiscal tawny spots are merged together with tlie 

 basal area, in which case the black area is mnch reduced ; outer margin concave 



between R- and SM^ Hindwing : postdiscal and submarginal bars thin, black, 



the postdiscal ones curved distad at ends, joining the submarginal ones, which are 

 straight or very sliglitly curved, thus forming more or less halfmoon-shaped rings, 

 ring-spot R^ — R^ small, posterior postdiscal bars often, the submarginal ones 

 seldom, obsolete ; a thin but mostly very distinct admarginal line black, interrupted 

 at veins R^ — SM-, posterior bars sometimes obsolete ; admarginal interspace C — SC- 

 often black, this black scaling not seldom extending basad to the vestige of discal 

 bar C— SC- ; median bar C— SC^ sometimes vestigial, as is in some specimens also 



