( 370 ; 

 28. Charaxes cowani (Xov. Zool. VII. t. 11. f. 4. S). 



Charaxes cowani Butler, Ann. Mag. N. 11. (5). II. p. 285 (1878) (Fiauarantsoa) ; id., I.e. (5). V 

 p. 336 (1880) (?, Fianarantsoa) ; Saalm., Lep. Mad. I. p. 88. n. liG (1884) (Fianarantsoa) ; 

 Butl.. Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 72. sub n. 89 (1888) (coicaiii and aiitamboulon distinct) ; id., 

 .fourii. Linn. Soc. Lontl. XXV. p. .3G8. n. 46 (1896) (Fianarant-soa : Betsileo) ; Auriv.. Kongl. 

 Si: Akad. Hamll. XXXI. 5. p. 241. n. 53 (1899) (Madagasscar). 



Charaxe-i antambouhni Mabille, in Urandid., Hist. Mad. XIX. 2., Lep. I. p. 191. t. 23. f. 1. 1« 

 (1885-87) (pt. ; cowani = untainhoulon .'). 



Charaxes cowtni Staudinger, Exol. Taiif. p. 169 (1886) (Madagascar). 



<?. Body above, and basal area of wings, tawiiy ocbraceons, darker than in 



antamboulou. Forewing : discal interspaces SC — E^ reduced in size, partly 



obsolete, tawny like the postdiscal interstitial spots, no interstitial spot between 

 W and M', or only a trace of it, black area posteriorly wider ; edge of wing 



dentate. Hindwing : black area also broader than in antamboulou, edge of wing 



strongly dentate, tooth M- developed to a tail ; blue submarginal dots R' — SM^ 

 generally rather conspicuous. 



Underside : darker than in antamboulou, the huffish interspaces, especially of 



forewing, reduced in size. Forewing : cell-bar 3 a little more distal than in 



antamboulou, apical interspace of cell russet, not buff, snbmedian and median bars 

 M' — M- much closer together than in the allied species, black discal patch 

 M- — SM- more oblique, postdiscal bars represented by small, but rather sharply 

 marked, dots : snbmedian and median bars M- — (SM') rejiresentcd by spots behind 



Ml Hindwing : blue and black submarginal dots conspicuous, but small : 



snbbasal and snbmedian bars (SM')— SIVF absent ; postdiscal series of halfmoou- 

 shaped spots a little less curved than in antamboulou, tooth R- 2 mm. long, tail 

 R' 10 mm., tail M' 3 to 4 mm., tail M= lU to 11 mm. 



? . Body and basal area of wings aboce as in antamboulou, outer margin of 



both wing and posterior portion of disc of hindwing very dark tawny brown. 



Forewing : median bar R' — M' without tawny spot at outside, completely fused 

 together with the black outer area ; tawny interspaces at distal side of median bars 

 R^— M' vestigial. Hindwing : submarginal, buff, spots rather heavy. 



Underside somewhat paler than in i, snbmedian and median bars M' — •M'' of 

 forewing not quite so close together, dentition of wings as in J, tail R^ 11 mm., 

 tail M' 4 mm., tail M- 12 mm. long. 



I lab. Madagascar: Betsileo; Fianarantsoa. lu the Tring Museum 2 i S , 

 1 ? without precise locality. 



II. Underside, series of subbasal bars of hindwing stopping at M, or abdominal 

 fold streaked. 



C- Serrations of costal margin of forewing in basal third about half the 

 number of the scale-rows before vein ('. 

 c. Discal bars of fore- and hindwing regularly arched, postdiscal ones 

 of hindwing also concave distally, about parallel to discal 

 ones, 

 e'. Median bars SC" — R- of forewing below close to cell, if 

 present. 

 (T. Median bars of hindwing below continuous, forming an 

 almost straight line, which is conspicuously bordered 

 with white distallv. 



