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snbmarginal black patches inostl}' touching admarginal line between veins, white 

 snbmarginal dots minute or obsolete. 



Underside olivaceous slate-colonr, with greenish and purplish reflections in side 

 light, glossy except postdiscal interspaces and, ou forewiug, part of median inter- 

 spaces ; submedian bars edged proximally, median bars distally, with white ; post- 

 discal interspaces mostly somewhat ochraceous at discal bars, this colour more 



extended anteriorly on forewing. Forewing : median bars nearly continuous ; 



outer edge of wing glossy to postdiscal, indistinct, bars, glossy band wider in middle 

 than behind ; white submargiual scaling visible in a front view, much reduced, 



except at apex of wing. Hindwing : bars on abdominal fold obsolete ; series of 



median bars crossing M just at origin of M' ; black and blue snbmarginal dots 

 present, white ones generally, obsolete ; admarginal interspaces somewhat brown, 

 narrow, last one yellowish as a rule ; admarginal line very thin, not consjjicuons, 

 separated from edge of wing ; upper tail 5 to 6 mm. long, second a very short tooth. 



? . According to Oberthiir's description and cut : Wings above : black, 

 slightly bluish, this colour shading oif into the brown-yellow colour of the base and 

 external margin ; discal interspaces white, forming a broad band from R^ to internal 

 margin, the two spots SC^ — R- more distal and separated ; postdiscal inters2)aces 

 8C'' — SM^ luniform, heavy, not so large as the black discal patches at their proximal 



side, tawny. Hindwing : tawny ; postdisco-submarginal black patches C — R^ 



large, not completely fused, patches R^ — M' about half the size of patch R' — R^ ; 

 snlimarginal white dots all present, upper two largest ; median bars C — R' marked 

 as black spots, discal interspace occupied by a white band in front, which shades 

 oif into the tawny ground-colour ; basal area np to median bars tawny brown ; 

 admarginal line very thin (as in c?), partly well separated from the brown edge 

 of the wing ; admarginal interspaces all marked, but the upper ones narrow. 



Underside paler than in (J, discal intersi)aces (except distal portions) white ; 

 submedian interspaces partly white ; postdiscal interspaces yellowish at discal 

 lunules ; tail broader than in c?, not spatulate. 



Length of forewing : <?, 36 — 41 mm. 

 ,, ,, ?, 48 mm. 



Hab. Celebes. 



The two specimens of C/tarazes mars found by Dr. Platen in North Celebes, 

 Minahassa, and those obtained by W. Doherty in South Celebes differ in some 

 details, as most butterflies from North and South Celebes do. This beautiful species 

 does not seem to have been met with by any other explorers than Platen and 

 Doherty. Neither A. Everett nor H. Frnhstorfer came across it during their stay 

 in Celebes. 



a. Ch. mars dohertyi. 



Charaxes mars Staudinger var. dohertyi Rothschild, Iris V. p. 437. t. 6. f. 2 ^J (1892) (S. Celebes, 

 Marcs country) ; Oberth., Bull. Soc. Eiit. France p. 194. f. 12 J (1897) (Maros country, 

 Petoenoeang, Asoewe, July 14. 1896). 



d . Winffs above on the whole more extended blue than in mars mars ; hind- 

 wing : tawny colour reaching costad beyond R', there being a tawny spot in front 

 of that vein, sometimes another before SC^ postdisco-submarginal patches W — M* 

 isolated, patch R'^ — R- almost isolated, patch M' — M'' about as broad as long. 



? . Descrii>tion see above. 



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