( 496) 



thin ; median bars more or less concave distally, forming a continuous line which 

 is concave distally l)etween costal margin and R^, then convex, crossing M' close 

 to its base, and reaching abdominal margin 2 mm. beyond end of SiP, last bar, 

 however, indistinct ; discal bars merged together to a continnons, tawny olive, line, 

 which is somewhat concave distally, begins 2 mm. before end of C, and terminates 

 at abdominal margin 3 mm. from end of SM- ; close to, and nearly {uirallel with, 

 this line is a postdiscal line between abdominal margin and R^ which widens out 

 into an indistinctly defined patch between R^ and SC-, interspace between the two 

 lines clay colour, jmstdiscal line sometimes only vestigial ; a series of extremely 

 small, white, snbmarginal dots, the dots about 2 to 2| mm. from outer margin ; 

 edge of wing very feebly scalloped, tail R^ represented by a short triangular tooth, 

 no second tail, abdominal angle produced but rounded. 



? . Winffg, upperside, paler than in ^, blue brown. Forewing : outer 



margin more produced at SC* than in c?, discal and postdiscal spots a little larger, 



a vestige of a postdiscal spot R'— R-. Hind wing : band wider than in c?, 5 mm. 



broad at M-, patch SC- — R' not separated. 



Underside as in <?, but costal snbmedian bar of hindwing about 2 mm. more 

 proximal than bar C — SC- ; tail R^ 5 mm. long, broad, subtruncate. 



Length of forewing : c?, 36 — 37 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 43 mm. 



Clasper produced apically into a narrow, somewhat spoon-shaped lobe, which is 

 not pointed ; penis-fnnnel (PI. VIII. f 48. 49) suddenly narrowed distally, of the 

 shape of a reversed tulip, the compressed apes not forming a hook, but a rounded 

 mesial crest which extends upon the upperside ; penis with a dorsal series of very 

 small teeth, the series turning proximally towards the left side ; tenth tergite 

 bilobed. 



JIab. Sierra Leone to the Congo. In the Tring Museum 2 c?c?, 1 ? from: Gold 

 Coast; Cameroons ; Stanley Pool to Lukolele. 



w'. Forewing above with conspicuous, blue, marginal patches. 



79. Charaxes doubledayi. 



Charuxes mycerina, Doubleday (non Godart, 1823), List. Spec. Lep. Lis. Brit. Mus. I. p. 109 (1844) 



(S. Leone) ; Bntl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. p. 638. n. 65 (1865) (S. Leone) : Staud., Exol. Tagf. 



p. 171 (1886) (S. Leone; 0. Calabar); Auriv., Enl. Tidskr. XII. p. -216. n. 143 (1891) (Cameroons); 



Schaus & Clements, Sierra Leone Lepid. p. 9 (1893) ; Karscb, Berl. Eiil. Zeitschr. XXXVIII. 



p. 192. n. 59 (1894) (Togo) ; Auriv., I.e. XV. p. 311. n. 200 (1894) (Cameroons, V.) ; Butl., 



Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 372. n. 63 (1896) (S. Leone; 0. Calabar; Fernando Po ; 



Cameroons). 

 Nymphalis mycerina, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Ditirn. Lep. II. p. 310. n. 40. t. 53. f. 2. (J 



(1850) (syn. excl. ; S. Leone) ; Kirby, Cat. Diuni. Lep. p. 270. n. 30 (1871) (pt.). 

 Cluiruxes doubledayi AuriviUius, Kmgl. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl XXXI. 5. p. 244. n. 74 (1899) (S. Leone, 



type ; Ashanti ; Togo ; O. Calabar ; Cameroons ; Ogow^ R.). 



S ? . Similar to Ck. mycerina ; antennae much darker, the blue scaling in the 

 cell of the forewing denser and more extended, forewing with admarginal blue spots, 

 band of hindwing of c? not interrupted at R'. On the underside the cell-bar of fore- 

 wing more straight, more obliquely placed, its upj)er end being only 1| mm. distant 

 from base of R^, median bars also straighter, the bistre brown outer marginal band 

 more sharply defined, the clay coloured area between it and the disco-postdiscal 



