(401 ) 



. J*. Nearly all the bars of nnderside tawny. 



e^ Abdomiual area of hiudwing below without tawny longitudinal lines, 

 e'*. c?, forewing with two series of postdiscal and admarginal orange 

 spots, which are merged together posteriorly at base to a broad 

 band ; ? , postdiscal spots of forewing above orange. 



43. Charaxes azota (Nov. Zool. V. t. 5. f. 3. c?). 



Philngnoma azota Hewitson, Ent. Mo. Man. XIV. p. 82 ? (1877) (Del. Bay, ? ). 



Charaxes azota, id., I.e. XIV. p. 181, (J (1878) (Nyassaland) ; Trimen & Bowk., S. Afr. Butt. lU. 

 p. 387. n. 384 (1889) (Del. Bay, Nyassa ) ; Monteiro, Ddagoa Ba;/ t. 1. f. 1 (1891) ; Trim., 

 Prnv. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 40. n. 01 (1894) (Manica) ; Butl, Aim. Mofj. N. H. (6). XV. p. 248 

 (1895) (Del. Bay) ; id..Joinii. Linn. So,: Lonil. XXV. p. 365. n. 36 (1896) (Del. Bay) ; Auriv., 

 Kongl Si\ Ak. Handl. XXXI. .5. p. 2.35 n. 23 (1899) (Del. Bay, Manicaland). 



Charaxes callidea Smith, Ann. Mug. N. H. (6). III. p. 130 (1899) (Mombasa). 



Charaxes ngasnnn Butler, Hid. (6). XV. p. 249 (1895) (Nyassaland) ; id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. 

 p. 253. n. 11 (1895) (Zomba). 



Charaxes azota local form : Charaxes callidea, Butler, Joum. Linn. Soc. Loud. XXV. p. 365 sub 

 n. 36 (1896) (Mombasa). 



Charaxes azota local form : Charaxes nyasana, Butler I.e. 



Charaxes azota var. (ab. ?) nyasana, Aurivillius, I.e. (1899) (Nyassaland). 



Charaxes azota var. (ab. ?) callidea, id., I.e. (1899) (Mombasa). 



3. Upperside of palpi, head, prothorax and anterior part of tegnlae bright 

 cinnamon rufous, rest of upperside olive black, abdomen often somewhat chocolate, 

 four dots on head white, more or less obvious ; underside of palpi, and the sterna 

 dark vinaceous cinnamon, legs and abdomen paler, second segment of palpi with a 

 thin pale line at eye, its tip laterally and the greater part of segment 3 black. 



Wings above velvety black, faintly purplish, both with a wide cadmium orange 



postdisco-marginal band. Forewing : costal edge cinnamon rufous, this colour 



extending into cell, often occupying the basal half of the cell, the very edge of the 

 wing generally black, at least in middle, base behind cell np to M' often faintly 

 shaded with cinnamon rufous, vein M often of the same colour up to R^ ; the orange 

 band includes a series of black submarginal spots, variable in size and number, the 

 upper ones always confluent, hence the band divided into an admarginal and a 

 postdiscal portion, the veins traversing the band more or less heavily black, 

 except the posterior ones, the size of the orange patches or spots into which 

 the band is thus separated very variable in size ; extreme outer margin always 



black. Hiudwing : band variable in width individually, narrowest in front as a 



rule, measuring S to 12 mm. at SO', its proximal edge slightly irregular, 

 crossing B IJ to 4 mm. distally of M' ; black submarginal dots M'— SM- (witli 

 white centres) nearly always present, the submarginal dots SC^— M* sometimes more 

 or less obviously vestigial, especially dot SO" — R' often conspicuous. 



Underside vinaceous cinnamon rufous, with a whitish vinaceous gloss, bars, 

 postdisco-marginal area of forewing, and postdiscal and admarginal interspaces of 

 hindwing not glossy ; postdisco-marginal area of both wings somewhat orange ; 

 basal to median bars cinnamon rufous, e.\cept bars M-— SM' of forewing, which are 



black. Forewing : cell-bars heavy, bar 3 often separated into two dots, bar 4 



slightly oblique, slightly angled in middle in many specimens, narrowed behind, 

 basal cell-spot absent ; submedian bars M'— SM' continuous with each other and 

 cell-bar 4 ; median bars M'— SM- also continuous, but bar R'— M' more distal, bar 

 R2_R3 fused with bar D as a rule, bars SC— R- augle-shaped, fused together to a 



