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Charaaet jahlusa, Butler, /..■. p. 637. n. 59 (18C5) (pt. ; Zambesi) ; Trim. & Bowk., S. AJr. Butt. 



I. p. 325. n. lOG (1887) (pt. : Zambesi) : lid., I.e. III. p. 407 (1S8'J). 

 Xi/mj>halis jah!u.ta Trimen, Ehoji. Afr. Auslr. p. 341 (1866) (pt. ; Zambeai). 

 Nymphalin jaMuaa var. argtjtmUlea, Kirby, Cut. Diitnt. Leji. p. 273. sub n. 53 (1871) (Zambesi). 

 Chnraxes jahluaa var. argxjnniihs, Aurivillius, Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ah. Hamll. XXXI. 5. p. 240. sub n. 50 



(1899) (Zambesi ; Nyassa ; Tanganyika). 



S S. Black spots on underside of abdomen small, widely separated, not merged 

 together to lines. 



c?. Wings above. Forewing : cell-bar 4 thin, separated into dots, often 



obliterated ; snbmedian bars small, sometimes obsolete ; median bars also thinner 

 than in the southern form. Hindwing : median bars SC" — M^ seldom vestigial. 



Underside : apical area of forewing, and the hindwing dark tawny olive, of a 

 more tawny tone than in jaklusa jaklasa, both wings less shaded with white, 

 bars obviously thinner, white discal patches of hindwing smaller than in most 

 specimens of j. jahlusa ; white postdiscal dots SC^ — R' of forewing and SC- — R' 

 of hindwing very small, mostly clayish. 



? . Differs from j. jahlusa like c? ; moreover, brown discal patches SC^ — R' of 

 forewing above obsolete ; underside of hindwing olive tawny, apical area of forewing 

 tawny cinnamon. 



Hub. Zambesi; Nyassaland ; Tanganyika. In the Tring Museum 3 c?(?, 

 lu ? ? from Likoma., Nyassa, caught in March, June, July, August, Sept., Oct. 

 (Rev. Button). 



The basal costal spot of the hindwing below is absent in some specimens of 

 both sexes, the bars behind SM' are also occasionally wanting. 



r* Underside green, scaling obliterated, except a few spots. 

 87. Charaxes eupale. 



Papdio Plebejils Uriianus eupale Drury, lilustr. Exot. Ins. III. p. 7. t. 6. f. 3. and Index (1782) 



(S. Leone). 

 Papilio Nymphalia aiiuisia Fabricius, Erit. Si/st. III. 1. p. 136. n. 419 (1793) (" Suriuam " loc. err. !). 



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(? ? . Palpi above, head, pronotum and (generally) anterior part of mesonotnm 

 pale russet, antennae green, mesonotum clothed with greyish white and oil 

 green hairs, metanotum with long greenish grey ones, abdomen greenish cream 

 colour ; underside dirty white, rostrum oil green, legs and palpi, if denuded, also 

 green. 



c? . Wings, upperside, membrane oil green, basal half (or more) of forewing, and 



the hindwing scaled greenish white. Forewing : basal area always extending 



beyond apex of <:ell, its outer edge at right angles to costal margin, mostly sinuate 

 between veins ; a short brown bar upon upjier cross-veins, often a vestige of a bar 

 upon D' ; green outer area covered with brownish black scales, which stand 

 generally denser near the outer margin of the wing and at the edge of the greenish 



white area. Hindwing : a series of black snbmarginal spots, variable in size, 



often with white centres, spot C^>SC- minute or absent, spot M' — M- small ; outer 

 margin brown, this scaling often so extended as to include most of the snbmarginal 

 spots, sometimes restricted to the very edge of the wing. 



Underside green, with sparse white scaling which is here and there condensed 

 to markings, especially to transverse, short, thiu lines. Forewing : ceil generally 



