NYMP1IALID.E.-XYMPHALIN^. 



CHAR AXES. IV. 



YL— CHAEAXES NICHETES. i . Figs. 1, 2. ? . Fig. 3. 



Charaxes Niclwh's, H. Grose Smith, " Entomologist's Moutbly Maga- 

 zine," vol. 20, p. 58 (August, 1883). 



Chanvres Hamafus, Dewitz, " Entomologisclie Nachrichten," vol. 10, p. 285, 

 fig. (October, 1884). 



Exp. 2f to 3i inches. 



Anterior wings falcate, emarginate below the apex, and convex above the 

 hinder angle. Posterior wings scalloped, slightly emarginate before the anal 

 angle, which is rather pointed, especially in the male ; in the female there are 

 two slight projections, hardly to be called tails, one on each side of this emar- 

 gination. 



21ale. Upperside rich tawny with a purple gloss in certain lights ; a 

 common dark brown band runs from the apex of the anterior wings to the 

 middle of the inner margin of the posterior wings ; anterior wings with two dark 

 brown spots within the band, and nearly confluent with it, near the costa, two 

 more about the middle of the wing, a large spot at the end of the cell, and a 

 smaller one within it ; hind margin rufous-brown, with two obsolete spots near 

 the hinder angle. Posterior wings with the basal portion within the central band, 

 exce^Dt on the costa, dark lu'own ; inner margin greyish ; a submarginal row of 

 eight black eyes, and two black dots near the anal angle. 



Underside rufous-brown, with a slight pearly-grey lustre, anterior wings with 

 two brown spots, followed by two streaks in the cell, three incomplete circles 

 between the streaks and the inner margin, an 8-shaped mark near the costa 

 beyond the cell, and an oblique line from the costa to the inner margin between 

 the 8-shaped mark and the apex ; and two or three small bluish-white spots at the 

 apex. Posterior wings with a C-shaped brown mark in the cell, resting on the 

 median nervure, an angulated mark above, and another below, a streak at the end 

 of the cell, a series of rather irregular linear dashes crossing the wing beyond, 



VOL. I., JULY, 1890. I I 



