﻿Species 
  of 
  African 
  Butterflies. 
  131 
  

  

  Female. 
  — 
  Upperside. 
  Both 
  wings 
  dark 
  brown, 
  with 
  broad 
  

   bright 
  brown 
  margins, 
  crossed 
  from 
  the 
  middle 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   cell 
  of 
  anterior 
  wings 
  by 
  a 
  white 
  patch, 
  greyish 
  towards 
  

   the 
  base, 
  tinged 
  with 
  pale 
  brown 
  on 
  its 
  outer 
  edge 
  ; 
  the 
  patch 
  

   commences 
  on 
  the 
  uppermost 
  median 
  nervule 
  of 
  anterior 
  

   wings, 
  widening 
  rapidly 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  margins 
  and 
  extending 
  

   over 
  the 
  inner 
  two 
  thirds 
  of 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  except 
  near 
  

   the 
  base, 
  which 
  is 
  dark 
  brown 
  ; 
  above 
  the 
  top 
  of 
  the 
  patch 
  on 
  

   anterior 
  wings 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell 
  are 
  two 
  light 
  brown 
  oblong 
  spots, 
  

   and 
  halfway 
  between 
  these 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin 
  is 
  a 
  curved 
  

   row 
  of 
  light 
  brown 
  conical 
  spots, 
  paler 
  on 
  the 
  inner 
  edge 
  and 
  

   fading 
  at 
  the 
  lower 
  end 
  into 
  the 
  white 
  patch. 
  Posterior 
  

   wings 
  : 
  two 
  small 
  spots 
  at 
  the 
  anal 
  angle 
  and 
  two 
  tails, 
  the 
  

   uppermost 
  the 
  longest, 
  margins 
  black. 
  

  

  Underside. 
  Both 
  wings 
  with 
  basal 
  third 
  reddish 
  brown 
  and 
  

   darker 
  streaks 
  ; 
  the 
  white 
  patch 
  on 
  the 
  upperside 
  represented 
  

   by 
  a 
  pale 
  yellowish-brown 
  area, 
  bordered 
  outwardly 
  on 
  pos- 
  

   terior 
  wings 
  with 
  darker 
  brown. 
  On 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings 
  

   between 
  the 
  lowest 
  median 
  nervule 
  and 
  the 
  submedian 
  ner- 
  

   vure 
  a 
  U-shaped 
  black 
  spot, 
  an 
  indication 
  of 
  the 
  two 
  oblong 
  

   spots 
  and 
  the 
  curved 
  row 
  of 
  light 
  brown 
  conical 
  spots 
  on 
  the 
  

   upperside 
  ; 
  a 
  dark 
  patch 
  centred 
  with 
  grey 
  near 
  the 
  inner 
  angle. 
  

   Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  row 
  of 
  small 
  light 
  spots 
  between 
  the 
  

   veins 
  near 
  the 
  margin 
  and 
  two 
  dark 
  spots 
  crowned 
  with 
  grey 
  

   at 
  the 
  anal 
  angle. 
  

  

  Expanse 
  of 
  wings, 
  $ 
  3|, 
  ? 
  3| 
  inches. 
  

  

  Nearest 
  to 
  protoclea. 
  Feist., 
  and 
  anticlea, 
  Drury. 
  

  

  Charaxes 
  Lasti. 
  

  

  Male. 
  — 
  Upperside. 
  Both 
  wings 
  brown, 
  outer 
  margins 
  

   emarginate. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  an 
  irregular 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   submarginal 
  band 
  of 
  confluent 
  spots, 
  widest 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  

   gradually 
  tapering 
  to 
  the 
  inner 
  angle 
  ; 
  across 
  the 
  middle 
  are 
  

   two 
  rows 
  of 
  dark 
  brown 
  spots, 
  the 
  row 
  nearest 
  the 
  cell 
  with 
  

   five 
  spots, 
  the 
  fifth 
  nearly 
  obsolete, 
  situate 
  between 
  the 
  

   lowest 
  median 
  nervule 
  and 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure 
  ; 
  the 
  other 
  

   row, 
  nearer 
  the 
  submarginal 
  band, 
  with 
  five 
  spots, 
  the 
  fifth 
  

   situate 
  below 
  the 
  first 
  median 
  nervule 
  the 
  smallest, 
  the 
  fourth 
  

   sagittate, 
  extending 
  over 
  the 
  space 
  between 
  the 
  two 
  rows, 
  the 
  

   three 
  upper 
  spots 
  confluent 
  ; 
  a 
  small 
  hook-shaped 
  dark 
  brown 
  

   spot 
  partly 
  at 
  the 
  end 
  of, 
  partly 
  beyond 
  the 
  cell 
  ; 
  the 
  veins 
  

   between 
  the 
  outer 
  row 
  of 
  spots 
  and 
  the 
  submarginal 
  band, 
  

   also 
  between 
  the 
  latter 
  and 
  the 
  outer 
  margin, 
  broadly 
  dark 
  

   brown. 
  Posterior 
  wings 
  with 
  a 
  submarginal 
  row 
  of 
  dark 
  

   brown 
  spots, 
  the 
  second 
  the 
  largest, 
  the 
  lower 
  spots 
  dimin- 
  

  

  