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white band ; postdiscal liars represented by black spots, which are halfmoon-shapecl, 

 bnt have often the middle of the concave outer side somewhat produced, hence 

 resembling slightly an anchor, bordered pale olive or white or blnisli white distally, 

 this white scaling produced into a pointed line upon internervular folds SC- — R' 

 and R^ — M', the series of postdiscal spots about midway between white band and 

 snbmarginal bars, curving distad lietweeu R' — and R' ; submarginal black tiars 

 transverse, the series jiarallel to outer margin, interrnpted at veins, bordered 

 white proximally, very thinly so distally ; bars M^ — SM^ curved, forming with the 

 respective postdiscal bars a ring ; submarginal interspaces varying from chestnut 

 red to pale olive ; admargiiial interspaces ochraceous, bordered milky white distally ; 

 marginal line black, about j mm. broad, continuous; edge of wiug sharply dentate; 

 tails triangular, mostly sharply pointed ; tooth M' often developed to a third, 

 shorter, tail. 



? . Like S, but larger, wings, especially hindwing, broader, band wider, in 

 Madagascar form band of forewing anteriorly orange, with spots R' — R^ produced 

 basad, discal interspaces SC^ — R' also with orange patches ; abdomen beneath witli 

 a black, broad streak along each side, which is slightly interrupted at edges of 

 segments. 



Length of forewing : <S, 34 — 45 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 44—50 mm. 



Hook of clasper evenly and gently curved (in a dorsal view), slender ; penis 

 somewhat widened at end, with one single, dorsal, tooth standing about 1 mm. 

 before the apex ; penis-funnel moderately narrowed towards end, slender, apical 

 edge produced downwards to a very short tooth. 



Hak Africa, south of the Sahara, Madagascar, a common species. We 

 distinguish five subspecies. 



a. Ch. brutus Junius. 



Charases hnitus var. Junius Oberthlir, Ann. Mits. Civ. Genova XV. p. 166. D. 47 (1879) (Abyssinia; 



June, July, Aug., Sept.) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. Vet. Ah. Handl XXXI. 6. p .231. sub n. 1 (1899) 



(Abyss.). 

 Cliaraxes Junius Oberthur, I.e. XVIII. p. 728. n. 58 (1883) (Fcleklek ; Sciotalit ; Let-Marefia ; 



I. II. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII.). 

 S. Head and prouotum shaded with olive, less bright ferrngiuous than in the 

 other races ; body below tawny olive, sides of abdomen without white line. 



Wings above blackish brown, band maize yellow, no blue scaling at edge of 



band. -Forewing : band 6 to 7 mm. broad at SM^, then gradually narrowing to 



R^, upper four spots smaller ; marginal spots maize yellow, bat their pro.ximal 



edges slightly shaded with buff. Hindwing : band gradually narrowing down 



to (SM'), 6 to 7 mm. broad at SC^ 2 mm. at (SM'), reaching abdominal margin, 

 where it is somewhat dilated again, outer edge of band a little concave between 

 veins ; admarginal spots subluniform, separated at veins, orange butf, all present, 

 upper one a dot; submarginal blue dots M- — SM- merged together. 



Underside reddish cinnamon rufous from base to discal band ; bars with wide 



grey centres, their black colour reduced to thin lines. Forewing : band cream 



colour ; outer area of wiug clayish ; postdiscal spots triangular, but rather small, 



the upper ones olivaceous ; black scaling at end of veins reduced. Hindwing : 



band creamy white ; postdiscal interspace (outside white band) Ua/.el, ochreous 

 behind ; postdiscal bars as in the other continental forms, but smalffr ; submarginal 

 interspaces clayish hazel ; submarginal black bars partly obliterated, replaced by 



