( 460 ) 



separate from postdiscal ones, seldom close to them, or, if fused with them, very 



small. Hiiidwing: admarginal line R- — M- obsolete or very thin and interrupted; 



white submarginal dots C — R- more or less obsolete in the specimens from Sierra 

 Leone to Gold Coast. 



Length of forewing: i, 35 — 4U mm. 

 „ „ ¥, 41 — 45 mm. 



/lab. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Angola and Unyoro. In the Tring 

 Museum 36 cTt?, 11 ?? from: Sierra Leone; Kumassi to Mansu, iv. '!t9 

 (Northcott) ; Mamfi, Accra, Begoro ; Warri, 20. ix. '97 (Dr. Roth) ; Cameroons ; 

 Great Forest of Upper Congo, two and three days' march from Ft. Beni, C. v. & 

 T. V. '99 (Dr. Ansorge) ; Congo ; Kassai ; Wakibara, Unyoro, 23. vii. '97, 

 Warringo R., Unyoro, 8. vii. '97, Fajao, Unyoro, 10. xii. '97 (Ur. Ansorge). 



Dr. Rotli caught a ? at night at a lamp (!) at Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate- 

 Pi. V. of Nov. ZooL. V. represents a curious aberration from Sierra Leone. 



n*. t? with band of hindwing above in middle. 



65. Charaxes penricei Rothsch., sp. nov. 



<?. Body as in CA. etesipe. 



Wings, wpperside, bluish black, somewhat metallic green towards base. 



Forewing : markings similar in position to those of Ch. etesipe cacuthis, all white, 

 the posterior patches slightly edged with blue, postdiscal spots SC^ — R^ larger 

 than in cacuthis, patch M- — SM- mm. wide, more proximal than in cacuthis, 



being 9 mm. distant from end of SM^ Hindwing : a band across the wing 



as in the ? etesipe, but the band is blue for the greater part, the white colour 

 being restricted to spots which correspond to the white spots of the underside, 

 externally the band is incised npon the veins, point of origin of M' about in middle 

 of band ; median bar C — SC- and bar D appear as black lines within the band ; 

 .submarginal and admarginal spots essentially as in etesipe etesipe. 



Underside nearly as in etesipe S, but the white markings larger and purer 



in colour, the red bars brighter. Forewing : black discal bars R^ — SM- placed 



as in etesipe ? , being much more proximal than in etesipe 6, discal bar M- — SM^ 

 not clearly separated from the respective median one, white postdiscal interspace 

 M^— SM= 3i mm. broad at M-', and 6 mm. at SM-, black postdiscal patch M^— SM^ 



larger than in etesipe ?. Hindwing: rufous red post<liscal spots C — W very 



conspicuous, the following postdiscal interspaces also more or less rufous red, 

 median and subraedian bars M^ — (SM') closer together than in etesipe. 



Length of forewing : cJ, 38 mm. 



Genital armature not essentially different from that of Ch. etesipe. 



llab. Quebe R., Angola (Penrice), 1 S. 



This curious sj)ecies resembles much more the ? of Ch. etesipe than the 6 

 on the upperside of the hindwing, while on the forewing the pattern recalls that 

 of Ch. etesipe cacuthis from Madagascar. 



w'. Discal and postdiscal bars of hindwing below regularly arched, forming 

 halfmoons together. 



60. Charaxes achaemenes (Nov. Zool. VII. t. 12 f. 1. ?). 



Ch/iraxes jocuste Doubleday, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Brit. Huh. I. Append, p. 28 (1844) {nom. mul.) ; 

 But!., Proc. Zool. Sor. Lmid. p. 628. n. 21 (1865) (»'>;». mul.; Senegal) ; id., IV. Eiil. 6V. Lmul. 



