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•excepted), with olive grey, this scaling forming generally a kind of bracket ], 

 being externally limited by a series of thin, black, snbmarginal bars, which mostly 

 <;nrve basad at ends ; veins olive grey near ends, Imt black at edge of wing, white 

 internervular marginal dots minute, or as large as the black transverse spots at ends 



of veins. Hindwing : median bars somewhat more proximal than in the allied 



species, except Ch. //fu/suli, basal costal bar less S-sliaped tlian in /lansali ; white 

 discal interstitial band widest in front, variable in width ; of the discal series of 

 bars only bars M' — SJP and R- — R' present ; j)0stdiscal interstitial band chestnut, 

 very broad, seldom less broad than the submarginal interspaces, mostly slightly 

 separated into patches by the thinly grey veins, the band proximally sinuated 

 between R- and R', patches R^ — M- generally rounded i)roxinially, the band 

 continued to abdominal margin by a pale ochreous luniform patch of nearly 

 even width ; black jwstdiscal bars inconspicuous, bordered externally by grey lines 

 which form, as in the allied sj)ecies, acute angles upon and between the veins, lines 

 touching SC- and R' long ; submarginal black bars transverse, bars M' — SM^ or 

 R' — SM- larger, submarginal intersjjaces olive, interspace M- — SM- large, upper 

 ones more or less heavily shaded with bluish grey, blue and white submarginal dots 

 obvious, except upper ones ; admarginal interspaces pale ochreous, slightly edged 

 with pale blue, especialh' at veins ; black marginal line often heavier than the 

 admargiual intersjiaces, broadest between veins as a rnle ; edge of wing obviously 

 dentate, two tails, upper one acute, 4 to 7 mm. long, second of nearly even width, 

 6 to 9 mm. long. 



?. Larger than S, paler, the discal interstitial band of the wing above on the 

 whole wider, tails longer, the second or both slightly spatulate and curving a 

 little frontad. 



Length of forewing : i, 44 — .53 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 51 — 61 mm. 



Sexual armature similar to that of Ch. Jason ; penis with a few minute teeth 

 immediately behind the heavy subapical tooth. 



Hab. A common species in tropical Africa, not foimd in Cape Colony and Natal, 

 replaced in Abyssinia by Ch. hansali. 



a. Ch. castor flavifasciatus. 



Charaxes hamuli var., Slaudinger, &o^ Tuiif. p. 168 (1886) (Zanzibar, mainland). 



Charaxes castor, Trimen & Bowk., S. Afr. Butt. I. p. 338. n. 112 (1887) ; lid., I.e. III. p. 407 



(1889) (Barberton); Pagenst., Jalirb. Wisseiisch. A:i.it. Hambuiy. X. 2. p. 26. n. 53 (1893) 



(E. Ungu, IX.) ; Trimen, Proc. Zoul. Hoc. Load. p. 41. n. 'IS (1894) (Manica) ; Holland, Proc. 



U. States A'lil. .Vus. XVIII. p. 262 (1895) (Somaliland) ; Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Son. Land. p. 533. 



n. 33. (1896) (Darro MU., Somaliland, XI.) : Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Loud. XXY. p. 353. n. 10 



(1896) (pt. ; Tanganyika; Mamboia). 

 Charaxes hansali, Butler (non Felder, 1867), Ami. .Mag. N. H. (6). VII. p. 42. n. 9 (1891) (Kandere 



and Nguru, Germ. E. Afr., Oct. Nov.). 

 Charaxes castor Crann. \AT_tiari/asciatus Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 251. n. 5 (1895) (Zomba) ; 



id., I c. p. 852. n. 9 (1896) (Nyassaland) ; id., Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 353. n. 10 (1896) 



(pt. ; Del. Bay ; Zomba ; Zambesi ; Centr. Afr. ; " Upp. Egypt " loc. err. ? an hansali ?) ; 



Auriv., Kongl. Sc. Vet. Ah: Hamll. XXXI. 5. p. 232. sub n. 4 (18il9) (Del. Bay ; Zambesi ; 



Hanica ; Nyassa ; Parumbira ; Brit. E. Afr.). 

 Charaxes Jiavi/ascialus Butler, Ann. Mug. iV. //. (6). XVIII. p. 68. n. 2 (1896) (Nyassaland). 

 Charaxes castor var. orientalis Stand, {sic!), Lanz, Iris IX. p. 140 (1896) (Parumbira, Oct.). 



<J ? . Wings above : discal band pale buff yellow, seldom of the same ochraceous 

 tint as in the western form. Forewing : marginal internervular bullish white 



