( 521 ) 



fi. No brown streak along (SM') of hindwing below. 



s*. <S, basal area of both wings white (? nnknown). 



92. Charaxes ehmckei. 



Charaxes ehmckei Dewitz, Berl. Ent. Zeitsrhr. XXVI. p. 382. t. 7. f . 4. ^ (1882) ; Butl., Jouni. Linn. 

 Soc. Land. XXV. p. 369. n. 50 (1896) (Angola) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vet A I.: Handl. XXXI. 6. 

 p. 243. n. 66 (1899) (Angola). 



S. Allied to Ch. neanthes. Body above more or less white. Wings above 



as in ? Ch. neanthes betanimena, the basal area being white, with a greenish 

 yellow tint ; costal margin and disc of forewing, and a broad discal border of white 



area of hindwing ocbreous ; disco-marginal area tawny. Forewing : median bars 



SC^ — R- merged together with the disco-marginal band as in betanimena ; bar D 

 and median bar R' — M' present, bnt not cell-bar 4 ; postdiscal ochraceous interstitial 



spots SC^ — SM- all marked. Hindwing : discal bars black, the same in position 



as in Ch. neanthes neanthes, but posterior bar a little more proximal (according to 

 figure) ; snbmarginal spots C — R- obsolete. 



Underside as in neanthes neanthes, median band vestigial on forewing, scarcely 

 traceable on hindwing (individnal character only ?) ; hindwing more strongly angled 

 at R' ; tooth broad and truncate ; tail M^ as in neanthes. 



? . Unknown. \ 



Length of forewing : (?, 30 mm. 



Ilab. Pungo Andongo, Angola, May 2.5 (Berlin Musenm). 



i^. Basal area of both wings ochraceous or ocbreous above in S and ? , or 

 white in ? . 



93. Charaxes neanthes. 



Nymphalis neanthes Hewitson, Exot. Butt. I. NymphaUs t. 1. f. 2. 3. ? (1854) (Natal). 



(J 5 . Bodj/ above tawny olive, thorax with a greyish tint, abdomen more tawny 

 ochraceous, in ? sometimes whitish, palpi brown ; four dots on head and a thin 

 line behind eye cream colour. Underside tawny or tawny ochraceous, middle of 

 sterna, legs, and in ¥ also abdomen more or less white. 



S . Wings above ochraceous, sometimes almost ocbreous. Forewing : outer 



margin deeply excavated between SC^ and M-, angled at SC" ; a postdisco-marginal 

 band of about even width, varying in tint from seal brown to tawny ochraceous ; 

 preceded by a series of discal patches of the same colour, the series about mm. 

 from margin behind R', almost parallel to it, the spots seldom reduced to blackish 

 dots situated in pale tawny clouds, generally merged together to a band which is, 

 moreover, joined along the veins to the postdisco-marginal band, thus isolating a 

 series of rather small postdiscal interstitial spots of the ground-colour ; median 

 bars SC^ = — R^ triangular, their outer edge about 5 mm. from cell, often merged 

 together to one patch which is joined to the disco-marginal area at costal margin 

 and at R-, sometimes also at R' ; in the latter case, the postdiscal interstitial 

 ochraceous spots are reduced in size and number, spots R' — R- and M' — SM" being 

 absent or only vestigial ; no median bar R- — R^, but bars R^ — M- sometimes 

 vestigial ; bar D present ; cell-bar 4 often marked, parallel to bar D, about 

 H or 2 mm. distant from it, with the interspace more or less scaled tawny or 



brown ; cell-bar 3 seldom marked as a dot. Hindwing : a discal series of 



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