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Ch. hoUamli Butler, I.e. ? , non (J. 



Ch. ephyra, Staudinger, Iris EX. t. 3. f. 5 (189G) (S. Leone). 



Occurs on the West Coast : Sierra Leone (type), 0. Calabar. 



e'. Like ?-f. regalis, bnt forewing : discal patches bine up to E^, post- 

 discal spots (except upper two) absent; hindwing: blue band broader, 

 its outer edge convex, parallel to margin of wing. Transition to the 

 individual of ? -f pkaeus with green base, mentioned below. 



5. ? -f dewitzi. 



Ch. alladmis Dewitz, I.e. t. 17. f. 8 (1887). 

 Ch. dewitzi Butler, I.e. Angola. 



b. Hindwing without broad discal band. 

 _/\ Upperside with a red purple gloss ; spots of forewing more or less 

 ochraceous, the discal and postdiscal series both stopping at M^, there 

 being no spots beyond this vein, or the external series continued to 

 internal margin ; proximal series often reduced to two or three spots ; 

 hindwing sometimes with a postdiscal line of ochraceous lunules. 



6. ?-f. senate Rothsch., f. nov. 



Ch. ephyra, Staudinger, Irin IX. t. 3. f. 2 (189fi) (Gaboon). 



In the Tring Museum, from the Gold Coast, R. Ogow6, and the Congo. 



g^. Upperside purple blue, spots of forewing white or whitish blue, or 

 purple, hindwing with indications of blue postdiscal patches. 



7. ? -f. alladinis. 



Cli. alladinis Butler, I.e. 



Ch. ephyra, Staudinger, Iris IX. t. 3. f. 1. (1896) (Gold Coast). 



In the Tring Museum from the Gold Coast, Lagos and Cameroons. 

 h'-. Like preceding, bnt hindwing with two red and blue patches. 



8. 'i-tfulgens Rothsch., f. nov. (PI. XII. f. 5). 

 In the Tring Museum from Sierra Leone. 



?'. Like form 6, but more steel blue, especially on hindwing, spots of 

 forewing absent, except a small discal costal spot, which is pale blue, 

 and the vestige of a spot in the apex of the cell. 



9. ?-f virilis Rothsch., f. nov. 

 One specimen without precise locality in the Tring Museum, labelled W. Afr. 

 B. Forewing above with a curved, white, band, or basal half of wing pale blue 

 as in Ch. hohemani <S. 

 c. Forewing with white curved band ; basal third of hindwing not pale blue. 

 k^. Basal area of forewing and greater part of hindwing tawny olive. 

 Forewing : patch R^— M' of band long, patches M^— SM- small, 

 obsolescent ; of the postdiscal series SC*— M^ of spots only the upper 

 two marked. Resembling ? Ch. tiridates. 10. i -{. cedreatis. 



Ch. cedreatis Hewilaon, I.e. 

 Ch. earteri Butler, I.e. ? . 



Hewitson's specimens came from Angola and Fernando Po. 

 In the Tring Museum from the Gold Coast and the Congo. 



IK Basal area of both wings brown, with a metallic gloss ; band of hind- 

 wing broad, white or pale blue ; hindwing below with or without 

 white discal band. 11. i-t.rosae. 



