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jiatch very large; admarginal spots as above, larger. Hindwing: basal costal bar 



faint as are all the basal to median bars; no snbmedian bars (SM') -SM' ; snb- 

 median and median series rather far apart, the median series nearl}' contiunous down 

 to R^ broken at this vein ; discal bars clay colour, continuous, fnsed at veins with 

 the similarly coloured postdiscal bars, which stand close to them ; discal interspaces 

 totally occupied by a creamy white band which is widest (8 mm.) at costal margin, 

 measures 3 mm. before 11^, and 1 i mm. behind R', and widens out again at 

 abdominal margin ; postdiscal interspaces small pale buff; no admarginal spots 

 and admarginal bars marked, but creamy white submarginal spots as above, anal 

 submarginal dots larger than above, both tails broad, triangular, l)lunt, njiper one 

 3mm., second If mm. long. 



Length of forewing : ? , 39 mm. 



R^ of hiudwing M at base of M'. 



Hub. Island of St. Thom6, 1 ? in coll. Staudinger. 



This is a very remarkable species ; its greatest peculiarity is the position of the 

 large admarginal halfmoous of the hindwing. 



(I. Cell-bars of forewing below straight, with heavy white borders, or bar 4 all 

 white, discal bars of forewing straight. 

 e^. Basal area of njjperside of wings milky white like body. 



4'.». Charaxes lactetinctus. 



(J. Charaxes lactetinctus Karscb, Enl. Xachr. XVIII. p. 113. n. 1 (IWi); id., Berl. Eid. Ztilsi-hr. 

 XXXYIII. p. 190. n. 53. t. 5. f. 3 (1893) (Adeli, Sept. October) ; id., I.e. Sitz.-Ber. p. 19 (1894) ; 

 Butl., J(mrn. Lhm. Soc. Land. XXV. p. 365. n. 37 (1896) (Adeli) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vel. Ak. 

 Handl. XXXI. p. 234. n. 17 (1899) (Togo). 



S ? . Upjierside of palpi, head, pronotum and tegnlae tawny, rest of upperside 

 milky white ; antennae black ; underside of palj)! pale tawny, with a black lateral 

 line which is bordered pale yellow ventrally ; sternae and legs russet, femora more 

 black, abdomen in ? white, tawny in middle, with an interrnpted black streak at 

 each side. 



(?. Wings aboee : basal half of forewing and basal two-tliirds of hindwiug 



bluish white. Forewing : tawny, the white area not reaching SC, e.xternally 



oblique ; bar D heavy, triangular, median bars R' -SM= forming large continuous 

 patches, black, median bars SC!*°— R- also black, heavy, elongate, contiguous; discal 

 and postdiscal patch-like bars less deep black, discal ones SC^— R^ forming a large 

 triangular patch pointing backwards, patch R-— R^ more pro.ximal, subrectangnlar, 

 contiguous with the black median patch R^— M^ ; postdiscal brownish black patches 

 merged together to a band which widens posteriorly, and is produced towards the 

 margin of the wing at the veins ; the orange tawny discal interspaces SC^^(SM') 

 smaller than the postdiscal brownish black patches, separated from each other at 

 the veins, the upper ones more or less rounded, the series almost parallel to outer 

 margin ; admarginal, tawny, spots about as large as the discal ones, convex proxi- 



mally, upper ones not clearly separated from one another. Hindwing : white area 



posteriorly wider than in front, its outer edge crossing R^ proximally of bent ; disco- 

 snbmarginal bars enlarged and merged together to a very broad black band, which 

 includes the whitish violet bine submarginal dots R'--SM- close to its outer edge ; 

 postdiscal interspaces C — R' tawny about 2 mm. wide before SC- ; orange tawny 



