XYMPHALID.E.-NYMPHALIX.E. 



CHARAXES. I. 



I.— CHAEAXES VIOLETTA. Figs. 1-3. 



C. Violetta, Henley Grose Smith, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, xxi., 

 p. 247 (April, 1885). 



" Uppekside, $ . Anterior wings dark brown, suffused slightly with violet, 

 with a cui'ved row of violet-blue spots across the middle of the wings, and a 

 submarginal row of similar spots from near the costa to the inner margin, the 

 lower half of the two rows becoming confluent ; the two submarginal spots near 

 the apex nearly white. Posterior wings with a broad central band of violet- 

 blue, suffused with white from the second subcostal nervule to the abdominal 

 fold near the anal angle ; above this band are two pairs of violet-blue spots, a 

 submarginal row of seven small spots, and a row of elongated spots on the 

 margin on each side of the nervules, all violet-blue suffused with white. 

 ? . Anterior wings with a broad curved band across the centre of the wings 

 from the costa to the inner margin, and two white transverse spots near the 

 apex. Posterior wings : the inner half fi"om near the base, white, suffused with 

 violet ; a submarginal row of small white spots, and a marginal white line inter- 

 cepted by the nervures, both suffused with violet. 



" Underside. Both wings as in C. Cithceron* except that the central black 

 line across both wings, which is broadly bordered on the outside with white, is 

 straight and continuous, not irregular and interrupted as in Citharon. This 

 species on the upperside has a general resemblance to Cithceron ; it is more 

 violet-blue, and is smaller in size, particularly the female, which is not so large 

 as the male Cithceron, while the underside of both sexes is very distinct from 

 Cithceron. 



" Exp. S^ inches. Hab. Delagoa Bay." (H. G. S., in Entomologist's Monthltj 

 Magazine, I. c.) 



In the Collection of Henley Grose Smith. 



The nervures on the fore ■wings in this species are very prominent, and all those on the costa 

 are of a brownish-red, both above and below, especially in the male, as in other species of this 

 group. There are four small white spots on the top of the head between the eyes, and the inner 

 margin of the hind wings is densely hairy, especially in the male. 



* Charaxes Ciihfpron, Feld. "Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift," iii., p. 398, t. 8, f. 2. 3 

 (1859), from Natal. It is treated by Trimen (" Ehopalocera Africae Australis," Pt. I., p. 169 

 (1862) as a variety of the weU-known C. Xiphares, Cramer ^figured in his " Papillons Exotiques," 

 iv., t. 377, A. B. ; and the male (as Thyesies) in StoU's Supplement to Cramer, t. 32, f. 2, 2 B.). 



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