( 499 ) 



? . Papilio Nymphalis lymrgux Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. III. 1. p. 67. n. 209 (1793) (Africa). 



? . Nymphalis lyrurgus Godart, Enc. Meth. IX. p. 364. n. 49 (1823) (S. Leone). 



<f . Philogmma laodice, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Dium. Lep. U. p. 311. n. 3 (1850) ; Butl., 



Cat. Diurn. Lep. descr. by Fahr. p. 49. d. 1 (1869) ; Plotz, St. E. Zeit. p. 194. n. 109 (1880) 



(Cameroons). 

 cJ. Nymj)halis nesiope Hewitson, Exol. Butt. I. Nymphalis t. 1. f. 5. 6 (1854) (S. Leone) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 270. n. 31 (1871). 

 (J. Charaxes m-siojie, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 639. n. 66 (1865) ; Druce, ibid. p. 413. n. 9. 



(1875) (Angola) ; Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leap. Car. Ah. Naturf. L. 4. p. 371 (1889) (N. Angola, 



X. II.) ; Capronn., C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXXIII. p. 126. n. 73 (1889) (Congo) ; Auriv., Enl. 



Tidslcr. XII. p. 216. n. 144 (1891) (Cameroons). 

 (J $ . Charaxfs laodice, Aurivillius, I.e. XV. p. 312. n. 201 (1894) (Cameroons ; nesiope = c? of 



laodice) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 373. n. 65 (1896) (0. Calabar ; Fernando Po ; 



Cameroons ; Angola ; L. Tanganyika) ; Auriv., Komjl. Sv. Vet. Ale. Ilaiidl. XXXI. 5. p. 244. 



n. 72 (1899) (Ashanti ; 0. Calabar ; Cameroons ; Gaboon ; Congo ; Angola ; Tanganyika). 

 ? . Palla laodice, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 274. n. 4 (1871) (S. Leone). 



c? ? . Body as in C/t. mycerina, breast deep burnt nmber colour, antennae 

 chestnut. 



(J. Wings above, blue black, with pale azure blue markings, which assume a 

 purplish tint in side-light.— — ^Forewing : two discal spots SC— R-, 5 mm. from 

 cell, the second sometimes vestigial ; a postdiscal series of spots from SC* to internal 

 margin, parallel to outer margin, only 2| to 3 mm. distant from it, spots R' — R' 

 minute, often absent, spot M- — SM- the largest, transverse, diameters 2 and 3J mm. 



Hindwing : a postdiscal series of spots, forming a more or less interrupted, 



almost straight band, widest in middle, 2 to 3 mm., spot C— SC^ very small or 

 absent, posterior spots (or all) slightly concave distally, spot R^ — R' 4 mm. distant 

 from outer margin ; a series of extremely small bluish white snbmarginal dots, 

 often partly absent; admarginal spots transverse, separated at veins, upper one or 

 two, seldom also anal one, absent ; abdominal fold brownish black. 



Underside varying from walnut to burnt umber brown ; glossy grey, especially 

 a median, a discal and a postdiscal band on forewing, and the whole hindwing except 



a band in postdisco-submarginal area. Forewing : submedian and median lines 



of bars nearly as in Ch. doablcdayi, white edging rather prominent, median Ijar 

 M^— SM^ more or less concave distally, cell-bar 4 oblique, nearly touching upper 

 angle of cell, submedian bar M-— SM= at proximal and median bar M-— SM- at 

 distal side with a cinnamon patch ; discal bar indicated by brown transverse spots 

 or lunules, which form an indistinct line anteriorly curving towards outer margin ; 

 ending at SC^, proximally bordered by glossy white scaling, which is condensed 

 before SC^ to a rather large, conspicuous, admarginal patch ; within the postdisco- 

 marginal, not glossy, area, there is a postdiscal and a submarginal series of ill- 

 defined, cinnamon, interstitial spot ; apex of wing produced as in Ch. douhledayi, 



outer margin angled at M-. Hindwing : submedian line of liars more or less 



broken at veins, strongly concave proximally taken as a whole; median line of bars 

 about parallel to the submedian one from C to R', costal bar more distal than the 

 concave bar 0— SC- in most specimens ; a discal line, continuous, brown, slightly 

 concave distally, beginning 2§ mm. from end of C, crossing R^ 3i mm. from base of 

 M', and ending at abdominal margin near anal aagle, externally bordered by a 

 cmnamon line npon which follows a brown postdiscal band which fades away 

 distally ; a series of minute, white, snbmarginal dots ; an admarginal cinnamon 

 rnfous line, more or less widely interrupted at the veins ; a short tooth at R^ outer 

 margin rather more distinctly concave between veins, anal angle produced as ia 

 zelica. 



