( 502 ) 

 b. Ch. nichetes nichetes. 



Charaxea nichetes Smith, Eiit. Mo. Mag. XX. p. 58 (1883) (J, ? , Cameroona) ; id. & Kirby, Rhnji. 

 Exot. I. Charaxes t. 4. f. 1. 2. 3. (J, ? (1890) ; Weym., Stetl. Ent. Zeit. p. 120. n. 11 (1892) 

 (ogomisis = hamatus = nichetes) ; Butl., Jounu Linn. Sor. Lond. XXV. p. 372. n. 60 (189t)) 

 (Cameroons) ; Auriv., Kongl. St: Vet. Ak: HaniU. XXXI. 5. p. 244. n. 69 (1899) (pt. ; 

 Cameroona ; Ogowi' K. ; Ka.ssai). 



<J. Charaxes hamatus Dewitz, Ent. Nachr. X. p. 285. fig. (1884) (N. Angola); id., Nuv. Act, 

 Leap. Car. Ak. Naturf. L. 4. p. 372 (1887) (N. Angola, XII.). 



<J. Charaxes ngovensis Holland, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. XIII. p. 330. t. 8. f. 2 (1886) (Ogow^ E.). 



c?. Darker than leoninus, the red purple gloss stronger; discal band of 

 upperside considerably wider, on forewing touching the round median spots or 

 even extending further basad, on hind wing twice the width of the band of leoninus, 

 cell and ai'ea behind cell shaded with purplish brown. 



Underside, discal line less continuous and less black than in leoninus. 



?. Upperside of wings more shaded with black than in S, black discal band 

 broader. 



Uab. Cameroons; Ogow6 R.; Congo; Kassai; Angola. In the Tring Museum 

 6 cJcJ from: "West Africa"; Congo: Leopoldville, Bnmba, Congo, 10. vi. '99 

 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Bolombo R., Angola, 28. iv. '99 (Peurice). 



f. Cell-bar 4 of forewing below proximal of point of origin of M'. 

 q'. Underside with £i_cpntinnous line acroBS both wings. 



g^. Forewing falcate, line across forewing below gently curved, bars 

 in outer half of hindwing below indistinct. 



84. Charaxes paphianus (Nov. Zool. VI. t. 8. f. 1. ?). 



Charaxes paphianus Ward, Ent. Mo. Mag. VIII. p. 120 (1871) (Cameroons) ; Auriv., Ent. Tidskr. 



XV. p. 311. n. 198 (1894) (Cameroons, VI. X. XI.); But)., Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud. XXV. 



p. 402. n. 154 (1896) (S. Leone ; Cameroons ; Angola) ; Auriv., Kangl. So. Vet. Ak. Handl. 



XXXI. 5. p. 242. n. 62 (1899) (S. Leone ; Ashanti ; Togo ; 0. Calabar; Cameroons ; Ogow^ ; 



Quango ; Mukenge : Aruwimi ; Angola). 

 Philognoma fahatii Butler, Lep. Ex. p. 101. t. 38. f. 1. ^ (1872) (Gold Coast ; Ashanti) ; Smith, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 472, n. 91 (1890) (Aruwimi). 

 Palla /alcata, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 749. n. 6 (1877) (Afr. occ.) ; Staud., Exol. Tag/, p. 174. 



(1886) (Angola) ; Dewitz, Nor. Act. Leap. Car. Ak. Naturf. L. 4. p. 372 (1887) (Angola, Jan.). 

 ? . Palla hamulom Weymer, Stett. Ent. Zeit. LIII. p. 94 (1892) (Gold Coast). 

 Charaxes falcata, Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. XXXVIII. p. 192. n. 58 (1893) (Togo) ; Butl., Journ. 



Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 402. n. 153 (1896) (Ashanti ; 0. Calabar). 



c? ?. Body as in Ck. lickas, but beloiv much deeper brown. 



S. Wings, upjjerside, yellowish tawny orange, paler than in Ch. lichas, with 



a reddish purple gloss in side-light. Forewing : enter margin concave from 



SC to M^, apex produced ; cell-bars 3 and 4 generally vestigial behind SG, bar D^ 

 thin ; median bars R' — M^ seldom traceable, but shining through from below, 

 median bar R^ — R^ 3 to 1 mm. from cell, sometimes merged together with bar 

 D', median bars &('/• — R- represented by two patches which are rounded distally, 

 occasionally produced basad to cell ; three discal spots SC° — R', the upper one 

 large, generally completely merged together with the black apical area ; a black 

 marginal band narrowing behind, mostly not extending to hinder angle of wing, 

 dilated basad from R' or SC, the black scaling seldom reaching to apex of cell 

 or further down SC ; three postdiscal spots R^ — M' either small and isolated, or 



