{ 330 ) 



8nbmarginal band variable in width, mneli wider beliind tail than in front, some- 

 times redneed to rather small isolated spots between (J and W ; within it there 

 are black, wliite-pupilled dots, of which spot M' — M- is rather large, dot R^ — R' 

 coming next in size, while the others are indistinct as a rule ; distal margin of 

 forewing generally shaded with orange-brown. 



Uitdcrsidf similar to that of the c?, but paler, the median band wider and, like 

 discal striated area, shaded witii creamy liutf ; the creamy white snbmarginal Innnles 

 of the hindwiug nearly all distinct. 



Early stages not known. 



Hub. West Africa : Sierra Leone to tlie Upper t'ongo and Uganda. 



In the Tring Museum 22 i S , 12 ? ? from : Sierra Leone ; Kuraassi to Uape 

 Coast Castle, April 1S99 (Cajitain Giffard) ; Kumassi to Kuitampo, and Kninassi 

 to Mausu, April 1899 (Col. Northcott) ; Kumassi (Wolseley) ; Begoro, Ashanti 

 (McDonald) ; Warri, Lower Niger, March 1896 (Dr. F. Roth) ; Cameroons ; Stanley 

 Pool to Lokolele, Congo (Harrison) ; eighteen days' march from Fort Beni, Aruwimi 

 Forest, May 22nd, 1899 (Dr. Ansorge). 



3. Palla decius. 



Papiliu Eqiie.« Achkms decius Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pp. 26. & 148. 1. 114. f. A. B ( ? ) (1777) (Guinea) ; 



Fabr., Spec. Ins. ii. p. 18. d. 71 (1781) ; id., Mmit. Ins. ii. p. 10. n. 81 (1787) ; Jabl. & Herbst, 



Naturs. Schni. iv. p. 20. n. 1,^2. t. 56. f. 1. 2 ( ? ) (1790). 

 Papiliu Ni/mphiiiis Geinmatus decius, Drury, Illnslr. E.rot. Ins. iii. p. 6. t. 6. f. 1. 2 & Index ((J) 



(1782) (Sierra Leone). 

 Papilio yi/mpl(iilis decius, Fabricius, Ent. Sijst. iii. i. p. 67. n. 210 (1793). 

 Pullu clecia, Hubner, Vei". bek. Schm. p. 47. n. 441 (1816-27). 

 Ni/mphatis deciu.i, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 363. n. 46 (1823) (partim). 

 Papilla decius, Donovan, Natural. Repas. iv. t. 109 (^f) (1826) (Gold Coast). 

 Philurinoma decius, Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 311. n. 1 (1850) (partim) ; 



Butl., Cut. Diurn. Lep. descr. I,i/ Fabr. p. 49. n. 2 (1869) (Ashanti) ; Caproun., C. R. Sue. 



Ent. Bell/, .xxxiii. p. 125. u. 64 (188;i) (Kassai). 

 Palla decius, Staudinger, Exot. Tag/, p. 174 (1886) (partim); Auriv., Tidsl:r. Ent. xii. p. 216. 



n. 147 (1891) (Cameroons) ; Stand., Iris v. p. 264 (1892). 

 Charaxes decius, Aurivillius, Tidskr. Ent. xv. p. 312. n. 203 (1894) (Cameroons); Butl., Juuru. 



Linn. Soc. Lund. xxv. p. 403. n. 157 (1896) (S. Leone ; Accra ; A.shanti) ; Auriv., Kouj/l. Sr. 



Vet. At Haudl. xxxi. 5. p. 242. n. 60 (1899). 

 Charaxes jmhlius, Butler {nou Staudinger, 1892), Jauru. Linn. Sac. Lund. xxv. p. 403. n. 168 (1896) 



(partim ; ? ? ). 



cJ. Body as in tisslieri, but the pale stripes on the underside of the abdomen 

 only vestigial. 



Wings, uppersiJe. Forewing us in ussheri, the white band a little more 



irregular in outline, with a rather broad pale blue proximal border, which does not 



reach costal margin, and a narrower and violet distal border. Hindwiug : tlie 



white band continued to K- or (proximally) to M, bordered and shaded with bine 

 on both sides, followed by an orange patch, which is widest at external margin, 

 expanding here between tail (inclusive) and anal angle, and which extends anteriorly 

 always beyond R^ ; three submargiual orange spots C — R'' often indicated, orange 

 spot R^ — R^ distinct, isolated, or merged together with the orange area, including 

 a black, bluish-white-pupilled dot, black spot M' — M- larger, also with bluish 

 white centre, snbmarginal dots M- — SM^ bluish white ; proximally of the sub- 

 marginal spot M' — M'-* there is, within the orauge area, a blackish halfmoon, either 

 distinct or vestigial, indications of similar halfmoons also between R^ and M', and 



