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5 . Charaxes viola Butler, I.e. p. 627. n 16. t. 36. f. 4 (1865) (W. Afr.); Karsch, Berl. Eni. Zellschr 

 XXXVni. p. 187. n. 49 (1894) (Adeli, Togo) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Loml. XXV. p. 359. 

 D. 23 (1896) (pt. ; W. Afr.). 



^ ? . Charaxes viola Butler, Atm. Mag. N. H. (4). XVIII. p. 481 (1876) (Atbara ; haec subsp .»). 



J. Charaxes chinm Staudinger, Exot. Tagf. p. 168. t. 58 (1886) (Senegal ; "(J " ex err.). 



j. Charaxes ephi/ra, Karsch, I.e. p. 192. n. 56 (1893) (Adeli, Togo). 



(J $ . Charaxes etheocles var. viohi, Aurivillius, Koiujl. Sr. Vet. Ak. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 238. sub 

 n. 34(1899) (pt.). 



S- Small, resembling Ch. etheocles etheocles S-L ckanleri, wings more 



elongate. Upperside., forewing : cell-spot alwa}'8 present, rather large, discal 



spot SC — R' also heavy, mostly accomjianied by a line in front and a dot behind ; 

 two postdiscal dots, of which the second is seldom absent, occasionally traces of two 



more dots ; marginal spots large, more or less fused together. Hindwing more 



triangular than in the other West African specimens of Ch. etheocles, admarginal 

 spots rather heavy, sjiots SC- — R' paler, often with orange red centres, broader than 

 the space between them and the white submarginal dots ; black snbmarginal dots 

 R^ — SM- obvious on account of their deep black colour ; postdical line of lunules 

 R' — (SM') always present. 



Underside clayish ecru drab, rather uniform in colour, median interspaces 

 scarcely darker than base. 



Underside of breast, especially of metasternum, as pale as the paljii ; abdomen 

 little more huffish. 



? . Resembling Ch. etheocles etheocles ? -f kirki. Wings above pnrjilish 



brown. Forewing : a series of discal and one of postdiscal spots, spots SC* — R^ 



separate, or spots R' — R^ connected by tawny scales, the others merged together to 

 a band which is cut by the brown veins, the band is 7 to 8 mm. broad at internal 

 margin, is about 5 mm. from outer margin and, at M^, 8 mm. from cell, mostly 

 whitish at internal margin ; patch R'-' — R' often subdivided by brown scales, some- 

 times the proximal portion absent, patches R' — M' occasionally also with tawny 

 brown scales in or near middle ; outer margin with a series of large, but rather 



obscurely marked, tawny spots. Hindwing : a broad, white, discal band, 



posteriorly shaded with pale blue or violet, measuring 6 to 7 mm. at SC-, 1 4 mm. 

 along M^, the black postdisco-submarginal area reduced to a band which becomes 

 very narrow behind and measures only 4 mm. in front ; white submarginal dots 

 large, edged externally with blue, especially last ones, black submarginal dots 

 R' — SM^ conspicuous ; admarginal spots C — R' orange ochraceous centred with 

 orange, the others greenish olive bulF, often yellowish in middle. 



Underside clayish ecru drab. Forewing : discal and postdiscal interspaces of 



forewing creamy buff, discal luniform bars feebly marked, posterior ones obsolete. 



Hindwing : discal interspaces paler than on forewing, but not sharply marked ; 



postdiscal interstitial halfmoons not prominent, their proximal halves cream buff 

 or pale straw yellow, distal halves dark cinnamon rufous. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 3U — 33 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 34 — 37 mm. 



Triangular ridge of penis much reduced in height (PI. VIII. f. 18). 



Hab. Senegambia and the Hinterlands of the West Coast, probably as far 

 south as Cameroons. In the Tring Museum 9 c?c?, 6 ?? from: Bathurst ; 

 R. Gambia ; Gambaga, near Volta R., 28. viii. '99 (Col. Northcott) ; Gambaga, 

 Nov. Dec. '98 (Capt. Giffard). 



A c? specimen in the Tring Museum labelled " Cameroons " agrees with viola. 



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