Famity—N YMPHALIDA. 181 
Famity—N YMPHALID. 
Grenus—CHARAXES. 
Species 1—CHARAXES LYSIANASSA. (Fem.) Hope MS. 
(=? Ch. Boueti, Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. France, 1850, p. 261, fem. 1) 
Puate XXXIV, Fies. 3, 4. 
Alis supra castaneo-brunneis, anticis versus basin et ad costam magis castaneis, fascia lata communi flaves- 
centi, in anticis maculari, in posticis integra, maculisque parvis submarginalibus fulvis; posticarum margine 
fulvo ; alis subtus albido, fulvo, brunneo et griseo late variegatis, posticis fascia pallida media ocellisque duobus 
parvis ad angulum analem. 
Expans. alar. antic. 33. 
Habitat ; Ashantee. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie. 
The upper side of the fore wings is of a rich dark brown colour, the basal portion, especially along the 
costa, being of a rich dark chestnut, varied by a blackish patch at the extremity of the discoidal cell, which is 
thereby separated from two other rich chestnut spots placed obliquely, and two others, at a greater distance, 
placed transversely. From nearly the middle of the inner margin arises a broad buff-coloured fascia with 
sinuated edges, which soon breaks into oval detached spots of smaller size, extending nearly to the apex, the 
last spot of this series being small, subcostal, and placed nearer to the discoidal cell of the wing, the spots 
between the branches of the median vein are each composed as it were of two conjoined spots: near the apical 
margin is a row of small, nearly rounded, fulvous spots. The hind wings are dark brown, the middle occupied 
by a broad buff-coloured fascia with nearly regular edges ; the margin is broadly fulvous-red, with a very slender 
black marginal line. The two tails of each hind wing are rather long and slender. 
On the under side the ground colour of the wings is pale buff or straw coloured, marked with numerous 
rich fulvous-red patches. The discoidal cell in the fore wings is traversed by four of the latter, the third of 
which is very sinuous, followed by a short fulvous-red bar from the subcostal vein; the wing between the dis- 
coidal cell and the middle of the inner margin is of a purplish tinge, with several dark brown irregular trans- 
verse marks; half way between the middle of the wing and the apical margin is a row of slender fulvous- 
brown lunules, followed by a row of large oval-shaped fulvous-red spots, darkest next the margin, from which 
they are separated by reversed pale fleshy lunules; next the anal angle is a large compound black spot, with 
several patches of pale blue scales on its outer side. The hind wings have a nearly straight black line running 
across them near the middle, followed by a pale whitish-buff space; the space between the base of the wings 
and this line being marked by several irregular fulvous-red fascize, the outermost being the widest, and joining 
the black line, which is angulated close to the anal margin. The broad pale fascia is followed by a row of 
conjoined fulvous-red lunules, beyond which the wing is varied with alternate lunate bars of greenish buff, ful- 
vous-red, black, pinkish-grey, and fulvous; the anal angle having two blue-black dots edged above with white 
lunules. 
The body above is dark chestnut, with four white dots on the crown of the head; the palpi and under side 
of the chest are varied with white. 
Species 2—CHARAXES ANTICLEA 92. 
(Charaxes Cymo, Hope MS.) 
Pirate XXXIV, Fic. 5. 
Alis supra fuscis, omnibus fascia submediana rufo-fulva, in alis anticis versus costam bifida; posticis 
margine fulvo, linea tenui nigra marginali punctisque duobus parvis albis ad angulum analem. 
Expans. alar. antic. 23. 
Habitat; Sierra Leone. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonie. 
Syy.: ¢ Papilio Anticlea. Drury, Ill. iii. t. XXVII, figs. 5, 6. 
§ Papilo Horatius. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pl. I, fig. 64; (Jones, Icon. ined. vy. t. XVI, figs. 3, 4.) 
No figure having hitherto been published of the female of this very rare species, I have thought it advis- 
able to represent it in the present work, from a fine specimen in the Hopeian Collection. 
