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ochreons ; postdiscal bars vestigial, densely shaded with silvery white like the 

 snlimarginal interspaces, bars M^ — SJP, however, marked ; snbmarginal Mack 

 liars transverse, not abbreviated at ends, bnt not continuous, as the preceding bar is 

 always a little less distal than the following one ; admarginal interspaces ochraceons, 

 paler behind, whitish at ti))s of veins ; black marginal line thinner than the black 

 snlimarginal liars, edge of wing strongly dentate, as in jjoI/i/j-, with three tails, second 

 the shortest. 



?. Larger. — ^yinffs above rather paler than in S. Forewiug : median bar 



R- — R^ separate from bar D, sulimedian bar M' — M- and median bars M- — SM- 



wanting. Hindwing : no median bars visible ; middle admargiual spots rather 



larger than in S- 



Underside : the ferruginous chestnut colour more extended, the white discal 

 bands of both wings wider, the postdiscal ferruginous chestnut band of hindwing 

 more broken into spots at veins, postdiscal bars of hindwing a little better marked, 

 tail M' shorter. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 45 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 50 mm. 



Penis as thick as in Ck.jason, less curved before end, one heavy dorsal tooth 

 at bent, with another smaller one behind. 



Hab. Madagascar. Li the Tring Museum 1 c?, without more jirecise locality. 

 Kirby, I.e., cites the Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. as being the place where the species was 

 described by Doubleday, and the authors who, after the publication of Kirby's 

 Catalogue, mention j'hraortes have accepted that erroneous reference. 



K". Submarginal interspaces of hindwing below not white in centres. 



g''. Ad marginal patches of hindwing above large, veins between them 

 heavily black ; tooth M^ short, blunt ; underside olive russet. 



54. Charaxes phoebus. 



Charaxes phiebus Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. p. 625. n. S. t. 36. f. 2. ^ (1865) (Abyssinia) ; 



Oberth., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova XV. p. 167. n. 48 (1879) ((^,$ ; Shoa, July) ; id., I.e. XVIII. 



p. 728. D. 59 (1883) (Feleklek ; Sciotalit, I. II. VI. VII. XII.) ; Butl., Journ. Lhin. Soc. Lmul. 



XXV. p. 352. n. 6 (1896) ; Auriv., Kong!. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 23.S. n. 9 (1899) 



(Abyssinia). 

 Nymphalh castor (sic !) var. a. Char, jihoehus, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lrji. p. 208. sub n. 7 (1871). 



S ?. Bod^ above tawny russet, mesonotnm with an olivaceous tint. 



Underside olive russet ; palpi with thin white line, third segment black, second 

 with a black lateral strijie on free part, black and grey stripes underneath legs 

 indistinct, middle of abdomen blackish in ? , segments slightly edged with grey. 



Wings above a little less bright than in pollux. Forewing : cell-bar 



4 short, narrow, bar D about 1 mm. wide in middle, dilated distad before and 

 behind R' ; median bars R^ — M- transverse, more distal than in jtoUu.r and thinner, 

 median bar R-— R^ present, close to bar D, which it generally touches, or with 

 which it is partly fused, bars SC* — R- more distal than in polliix ; discal bars 

 SC^ — M- present, the posterior ones as small spots, bar R- — R^ extended basad, 

 ill-defined bar SC* — S(? also widened, but cellule SC^ — SC' orange between discal 

 and median bars; postdisco-snbmarginal black band of nearly even width (4 to 5 mm.), 

 incised at posterior veins, somewhat sinuate between upper veins, slightly widening 

 from R' to SC*, strongly dilated basad before SC*, upper veins somewhat scaled black, 



