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LeiigtU of SC- of liiudwing (from base) : <?, 23 mm ; ? , 30 mm. 

 „ M + M^ „ „ (?, 27 mm; ? , 33 mm. 



C'liisper more complicated tban iu the allied species, the dorsal margin produced 

 mesiad into a tooth which is deeply grooved on the npperside, apex of clasper 

 beyond this tooth broad, then narrowed into a hook ; ventral edge of clasper armed 

 on the inner side with a tooth which points distad (PI. VIII. f. 30, subdorsal view) ; 

 })enis-i'nnnel long, very slender, apical third convex above, almost rod-like, end curved 

 downwards, forming a hook ; penis thick, apex compressed, a short denticnlated 

 dorsal ridge before the end ; tenth abdominal tergite with two processes. 



Hab. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Upper Congo. In the Tring 

 Museum 22 SS, 11 ? ?, from : S. Leone, Ft. Lokkoh, Suza country, vii. '99 (("apt. 

 .Stevens) ; Slierboro ; Accra ; Warri, Niger, 4. v. '76 (Dr. Roth) ; Stanley Pool to 

 Lukolele, and Bopoto, Congo ; Great Forest on Upper Congo, three days' march 

 from Ft. Beni, 7. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge;. 



This species has been separated generically from Ckaraxes on account of the 

 outline of tlie hindwing. TLe absence of tail R' and the shortness of tail M- give 

 the insect a peculiar appearance, but do no more justify a generic separation from 

 Charaxes, than the difference in the outline of the wings does in the case of varanes, 

 mycerina, etc. In our opinion Ch. zingha is closer related to Ch. etesipc than this 

 is to Ch.jamus, camliopc, polyxena, etc. It is in colour of an acraeoid appearance. 



h}^. Cell-bar 4 of forewing below not separated into rounded spots. 



i^. Bars of underside chestnut tawny with black or brown borders, heavy. 

 irv'. Discal and postdiscal bars of hindwing below not regularly arched. 

 M*. Baud of upperside of hindwing distal of middle of wing iu i. 



64. Charaxes etesipe. 



$ . Papilin Xi/wphalix Phuleratus ethencleg, Drury (nou Cramer, 1777), lllustr. Er. Ins. III. p. 12. 



t. 10. f. 1. 2. and Index (1782) (S. Leone) ; Fabr., Ent. Stjst. HI. 1. p. 64. n. 200 (1793) (pt.). 

 ? . Nymphalis etrsipe Godart, Enc. Meth. IX. p. 3.55. n. 19 (182:1) (S. Leone). 

 <j. Nymjihalis elheta Godart, I.e. p. 356. n. 20 (1823) (Afr. occ. ; ^ of etesipe .»). 



(?. Bor/i/ above olivaceous black, bead, pronotum and anterior portion ot 

 mesonotum bistre ; dots on head and pronotum and line behind eye prominent, 

 mesial dot of pronotum mostly concealed by the hair-like scaling ; underside 

 cream colour, palpi white, stripes on sterna underneath legs, posterior part of 

 metasternum aud upperside of anterior tibia and tarsus brown or black, four 

 posterior femora black on npperside, with dispersed white scales. 



Wiriys ahoce, blackish blue, glossy blue in side-light, more glossy towards base, 



with a greenish tint. Forewing : outer margin generally obvionsly denticulate ; 



a spot in upper angle of cell and a series of five discal spots SC — M' white, mostly 

 edged with blue, spot R^ — R' minute or absent, close to cell, spot W — R- also 

 small, the other three about 1 to IJ mm. in diameter, no discal spofs from M- to 

 internal margin ; a complete postdiscal series of spots, the posterior ones the 

 largest, often developed to large patches, pale blue, the upper four or five small, 

 more or less white, generally blue at edges, spot R' — R- the smallest, the series 

 l^arallel to outer margin, curving costad in front ; a complete series of admarginal 



spots, jiale blue, whitish upon iuternervular folds. Hindwing : a postdiscal 



series of pale lilue spots, the series somewhat angled before K^, in some forms the 

 spots dilated basad to the apex of the cell aud fused together, the upper ones 



