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(Uapt. GiiFard) ; Great Forest of Upper Congo, fifteen days' march from Ft. Beni, 

 19. V. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



b^. Like preceding, but underside with an obvious reddish purple tint, 

 especially on the darker coloured portions of the wings. 



7. c?-f. carteri. 

 Ch. carteri Butler, I.e. 



Also common in West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Upper Congo ; inter- 

 gradations between this and forms 6 to 10 numerous. This is what Dr. Butler puts 

 as c? to ? -f. alladinis. Dated specimens in the Tring Museum from Warri, Niger 

 Coast Protectorate, iv. '96 (Dr. Roth) ; Yanga, Ituri R., 29. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



c^. Underside as in 6 or 7 ; upperside, marginal spots of forewing 

 conspicuous, white snbmarginal dots of hindwing large, one 

 postdiscal dot, the second seldom vestigial ; admarginal spots of 

 hindwing without red centres. 8. ^-f. ephjra. 



Nymphalis ephyra Godart, Em. Meth. IX. p. 355. n. 18 (1823). 



Charaxes viola, Butler (non Butler, 1865), Journ. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 359. n. 23 (1896) 

 (Ashanti ; 0. Calabar ; Angola). 



Distributed over West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Congo basin ; resembling 

 the East African forms 1 and 3. In the Triug Museum from : S. Leone (Capt. 

 Stevens) ; Kumasi to Cape Coast Castle, iv. '99 (Capt. Giflfard) ; Knmasi to 

 Kintampo, iv. '99 (Col. Northcott) ; Agawasso, Gold Coast, middle of vii. '97; Great 

 Forest on Upper Congo, four days' march from Ft. Beni, 8. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



d^. Upperside, forewing: spot in cell generally large, the other two 

 costal spots small, the postdiscal one of them mostly absent, 

 marginal spots absent or vestigial, basal area green ; hindwing : 

 admarginal spots SC-— R^ more or less ochraceous, or ochraceons 

 rufous. Underside dark clay colour, bars heavy. 



9. ^-f. lutacea Rothsch., f. nov. 

 Known to us from the Congo basin and Unyoro. In the Tring Museum from : 

 Lukolele, Stanley Pool ; Great Forest, two and three days' march from 

 Ft. Beni, 6. v. '99 and 7. v. '99 {type) (Dr. Ansorge) ; Fajao, Unyoro, 23. vii. '97 

 (Dr. Ansorge). 



e^. Upperside violet blue ; forewing : with or without marginal spots, 

 costal spots sometimes all wanting ; hindwing : admarginal spots 

 obscnrely marked. Underside as in form 6, seldom as in 7. 



10. c?-f. violacea Rothsch., f. nov. 

 In the Tring Museum from : Kumasi to Mansu, Gold Coast, iv. '99 (Col. 

 Northcott) ; Ogow6 R. {type) ; Bopoto, Congo ; Sakarnmbi, one day's march from 

 Ft. Beni, Congo Free State, .5. v. '99, and three days' march from Ft. Beni, 7. v. '99 

 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Yanga, Ituri R., 29. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



Besides these ten forms, which can be subdivided almost infinitely, there 

 exist in collections individuals which agree on the upperside with one or the other of 

 forms 5 to 10, but have the ground of the underside much more uniform in colour. 

 Two such individuals in the Tring Museum have the upperside obviously oily 

 green ; the marginal markings of the forewing above and the snbmarginal dots 

 of the hindwing are as in c?-f ephyra. A specimen from Buaia, Bnsiro, Uganda, 

 24. iii. '99 (Dr. Ansorge), has the shape and size of J-f. chanleri, the costal 



