( 501 ) 



respective mediau bars coocave proximally, the two bars often joined together 

 to rings ; no median bar R^ — R', median bars SC* — R' obliqne, straight or 

 distally convex ; discal bars SC* — R' proximally concave, abont 8 mm. from cell ; 

 a thin, pnrplish black, or deep tawny, mostly continnons, line beginning at costal 

 margin 6 mm. from apex to internal margin, crossing SM^ about 10 mm. from end ; 

 area between this line and onter margin with a whitish gloss except a line of 



postdiscal, triangular, spots ; a white submarginal spot SC* — SC'\ Hindwiiig : 



basal and subbasal bars indistinct or absent ; costal snbmedian and median bars 

 absent ; submedian line of bars generally reaching SM-, the bars widely separated 

 from one another, bar M- — (SM') just distal of base of M^, or exactly at the point of 

 origin of this vein ; median line of bars also widely interrupted at the veins, bar 

 R' — R- close to origin of R- ; a straight discal line, posteriorly approaching anal 

 angle, crossing R^ about 2 mm. from base of M' ; abdominal area and area between 

 that line and margin glossy grey, except a series of postdiscal tawny spots, of which 

 the upper ones are triangular pointing distad, the posterior ones Inniform, being 

 distally concave, an admarginal and a marginal line also excepted. 



. ? Like <S, ground colour less bright, black markings of upper side more 

 extended ; hindwingless produced at anal angle, tooth R^ and M^ a little longer than 

 the others. 



Length of forewing : <J, 35 — 37 mm. 

 „ „ ?, 41 mm. 



Clasper produced into a simple, strong, hook ; the ridge which runs from the 

 tip of the hook to the inner surface of the clasper is rather high and ends somewhat 

 abruptly ; tenth tergite divided into two sharply pointed processes ; penis thin, 

 with very minute teeth forming an irregular, oblique series beginning about 3 mm. 

 from the end ; penis-funnel short, triangular, apex compressed, rather strongly 

 chitinised, turned down to a sharp hook. 



Hab. Cameroons to Angola, Nyassaland ; two subspecies. 



The differences between the two forms leonimis and nichetes do not justify 

 a specific separation, nor are they constant, certain Angola individuals standing 

 intermediate in character between typical nichetes and typical leoninus. 



a. Ch. nichetes leoninus. 



Charaxes leoiiims Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 253. n. 12. t. 1.5. f. 2. ^ (1895) (Zomba) ; id., /.<■. 



p. 720. n. 13 (1896) (Zomba) ; id., Joiini. Linn. So,: Uml. XXV. p. 372. n. 59 (1896) (Zomba) ; 



id., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lnnd. p. 823. n, 14 (1896) (Lower Nyika, VI.). 

 Charaxes nichetes var. leoninus, Aurivillius, Koiigl. Si: Vel. Ak. Haiidl. XXXI. 5. p. 244. sub n. 69 



(1899) (Zomba). 



(?. Body above and wings orange ochraceous rufous ; discal reddish jnirple, 

 black band of wings narrow, that of forewing not extended to rounded median bars, 

 that of hindwing mostly narrower than the interspace between itself and the thin 

 bar D, from which it is separated, width 2 to 3| mm. at R'. 



Underside : discal line across lioth wings continuous, purplish black. 



? . Paler, larger, discal baud of upjiersidt: rather broader. 



I lab. Nyassaland. In the Tring Museum 2 cJ, 2 ? from : Zomba, December 

 1895 (Dr. Percy Rendall) ; t'hipaika Estate, Bandawe (F. Watkinsou). 



The individuals from Angola belong to the following subspecies, but are partly 

 intermediate. 



