( 500 ) 



? . Wings above purplish blue brown, outer margin burnt umber colour ; mark- 

 ings somewhat paler than in c?. Forewing: apes more strongly prodnced than in 



cJ, angled at 8C^ ; two discal spots SG'— R- ; postdiscal spots smaller than in t?, 

 spots R' — R', or SC — R^ absent, last spot very small or absent, spots M' — SM^ 



transverse, more or less concave distally. Hindwing : postdiscal band narrower 



than in S, slightly concave proximally, the spots composing it all isolated, 

 transverse, more or less halfmoon-shaped, snbmarginal dots white, rather more 

 prominent than in <?, bat the series not always complete ; admarginal spots absent 

 or partly vestigial. 



Underside, jmlerthan in <S, more russet brown ; tail R' 5 mm. long, dilated at 

 apex, truncated or rounded. 



Length of forewing ; c?, 32—38 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 40—43 mm. 



Hab. West Africa from the Gold Coast to Angola, the Upper Congo and the 

 Tanganyika. In the Tring Museum 16 c?<?, 2 ? ? from : Accra and Mamfe, Gold 

 Coast; Begoro, Ashanti; "Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, vi. '96 (Dr. Roth) ; Sobo 

 country, Lower Niger, iv. '9.5 (Dr. Roth) ; Ogowe R. ; Bopoto, Upper Congo ; 

 Lukolelo, Congo ; Kassai ; Kitima in the great forest of the Upper Congo, 

 twenty-one days' march from Fort Beni, Congo Free State, 25. v. '99 (Dr. Ansorge). 



]/. Markings of npperside not blue. 



s*. Cell-bar 4 of forewing below distal of point of origin of M'. 



83. Charaxes nichetes. 



Charaxes tiichetea Smith, Etit. Mo. Mag. XX. p. 58. (1883) ((J, J , Cameroons) ; Auriv., Kongl. Sv. 

 Vet. Ak. Handl. XXXI. 5. p. 244. n. 69 (1899). 



<??. Body above orange to dark tawny, often with a purplish sheen, tips of 

 palpi black ; underside ochraceous buff to jmle tawny hazel. 



(?. Wi)igs above orange ochraceous rufous, varying in the depth of the tint with 



a beautiful reddish purple sheen in side-light. Forewing : outer margin deeply 



•concave, apex therefore much produced, most distal point between veins SC and SC; 

 cell-bar 3 represented by a brown spot ; bar D widened in costal half; median bars 

 R' — M- as rounded sjwts or patches, median bar M- (SM') often absent, liars 

 iSC — R^ about 5 to 7 mm. from cell, as spots or small patches ; discal bars 

 enlarged forming a purplish black band which is externally concave between the 

 veins, often produced distad at veins to join the brown or deep tawny marginal 

 band, the proximal edge of which is often marked by blackish bars, width of discal 



band very variable. Hindwing : anal angle produced, outer margin rounded, 



slightly scalloped, no tails ; a purplish black discal band of variable width stopping 

 at abdominal fold, widest in middle, almost parallel to outer margin, crossing 

 R' just proximal of bent of this vein, distally dentate upon R' ; postdiscal and 

 snbmarginal merged together to rings. 



Underside tawny hazel, with a slight retldish purple gloss, bars dark cinnamon 



rufous, not prominent. Forewing : cell-bar 1 absent, bar 2 abbreviated in 



front, bar 3 abbreviated behind, sometimes composed of a larger anterior and a 

 tiny posterior spot, 4 mostly arched, seldom straight, situated near end of cell, 

 touching (or almost so) bar D at ends ; subbasal bar M- (SM') indicated by a 

 dot proximally of base of M^ ; submedian bars R' — SM^ concave distally, the 



