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Charaxes nausicaa Staudinger, Iris IV. p. 137 (1891) (S. Leone ; Cameroons) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. 



Soc. Land. XXV. p 373. n. 64 (1896) (O. Calabar ; R. Ogow^). 

 Charaxes mycerina, Aurivillius, Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Bandl. XXXI. 5. p. 244. n. 73 (1899) (S. Leone; 



Cameroons ; Kuilu ; Kassai). 



3 ? . Head, jironotnm and anterior part of mesonotam olive mnmmy brown, 

 rest of upperside olivaceous black, the dots on head white ; antennae chestnut ; 

 underside of palpi and middle of prosternum creamy white, rest of underside clayish 

 creamy buff, abdomen deeper in tint in S than in S ; legs tawny, with whitish grey 

 scaling, femora nearly black ; anterior tibia mummy brown, anterior tarsus creamy 

 white. 



cj. Wings above blue black, markings pale blue, purplish in side-light. 



Forewing : outer margin deeply concave between SC^ and M^, more produced at 

 SC* than at apex proper ; cell blue, except a patch in upper angle, the blue scaling, 

 however, not very dense, especially distally, the black underscales not all covered ; 

 two discal spots SC* — R', 3 mm. from cell, elongate, the upper short and thin, 

 the second 3 to 5 mm. long, IJ mm. broad ; a postdiscal series of five spots, 

 uppermost spot between SC^ and R^, 10 mm. from cell, elongate ovate, 3^ to 4 mm. 

 long, no spots between R^ and R^, four posterior spots between R^ and internal 

 margin, in a slightly curved series, spot R^ — M' the smallest, spot M' — M- ronnded, 

 diameter about If mm., spot M^ — SM^ sometimes incised distally, subrectangular, 



diameters 2 and 3 mm., last spot 4 to 6 mm. from end of SM^, 4 mm. long. 



Hindwing : a discal band from C to (SM'), narrowing in front, continuous from 

 R' to (SM'), 4 to 5 mm. broad at M', partitions C — R' isolated, spot C — SC^ 

 sometimes very small, 4 to 5 mm. from end of C, inner edge of band crossing M at 

 point of origin of M' ; two or three minute submarginal dots near anal angle ; five 

 transverse admarginal sjxits between R' and SM-, slightly separate at veins, or 

 contiguous, anal one very thin, spot R' — R- often divided, a vestige of spot SC^ — R' 

 sometimes present ; abdominal fold blackish brown. 



Underside clay colour, rather glossy ; median interspaces, and a large, sub- 

 triangular, disco-postdiscal area from C to M' of forewing and outer margin of both 



wings bistre brown, hindwing shaded with grey ; bars thin. Forewing : no 



basal cell-spot, cell-bar 2 absent, cell-bar 3 represented by two small dots, thinly 

 bordered white, the second abont li mm. from base of M-, bar 4 transverse, very 

 little oblique, slightly irregular, reaching M midway between M' and M-, its upper 

 end 2^ mm. from base of R^, ground paler clay colour at proximal side of bar 4 

 than near bar 3 ; bar D very thin ; submedian bars M' — SM^ continuous with 

 cell-bar 4, forming with it a slightly curved Hue which crosses M- 2i mm. from 

 base of M^ ; median bars SC* — SM^ continuons, the bars somewhat concave 

 proximally, forming a line which begins 4i mm. from base of SC*-^, and crosses 

 M' 2 mm. from base of M', the median and submedian lines parallel behind, 

 divergent in front ; median bar M-— SM- straight, or distally concave ; discal 

 interspaces SC^-^— R^ shaded with grey, width of this greyish area 2i mm. at SC^', 

 and 5 mm. at R^ ; no discal and postdiscal bars, but there is a disco-postdiscal, very 

 indistinct, dark clayish line between internal margin and apex of wing, 7 mm. from 

 outer margin at SM-, slightly curved, proximally bordered with silvery white scales 



down to M', this scaling reaching outer margin of wing in front. Hindwing : 



no basal costal bar, no subbasal bars ; submedian bars almost continuous, forming 

 a proximally concave line from costal margin to M which crosses C 2 mm. from PC, 

 and reaches M 2i mm. from M'-, bar M'— (SM') near base of M^ ; bar D extremely 



