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M^ aud SM^ ; sometimes tbe whole orange area shaded with brown ; fringe blackish 

 between tail and anal angle ; tail tipped with bnff. 



Underside as in usslieri, the interspaces between the striae near the band of 

 the hindwing less white. 



? . Similar to the ? of nsslieri, but ditfers as follows : Baud of forewing 

 strongly narrowing costad, narrower than in usskeri, more or less bnif-yellow in 

 costal two-thirds, slightly edged externally with orange, milky white in posterior 

 third, edged with pale blue proxiraally ; a series of seven widely separated post- 

 discal spots, bnfF-yellow, seldom almost white, spots 1, 2 and 4 mnch smaller and 



more proximal than 3. Hindwing : band white, shaded and edged with pale 



bine (proximally) and violet (distally), narrower than in ussheri ; snbmarginal spots 

 C — E- nearly white j)roximally, orange or bntf-yellow distally, isolated, the second 

 and third, or only the tliird, externally with a lilack dcit with blnish white centre, 

 snbmarginal spot R'' — R^ orange, with creamy white halfmoon proximally and 

 black central dot which has bluish ])upil, the spot isolated or connected behind 

 with the following orange spots, which extend more or less to edge of wing, 

 orange spots R- — W with creamy white proximal Innules, black centre of spot 

 M'— M^ large. 



Underside as in usskeri, snbmarginal spots of hindwing and tail less orange. 



Early stages not known. 



Hab. West Africa : Sierra Leone to Angola. 



In the Tring Museum 19 cJcJ, 3 ? ? from : Sierra Leone ; Accra, Gold Coast. 



4. Palla violinitens. 



Palla uBsheri, Staudinger (noii Butler, 187U), Exnt. Tayf. p. 174 (1886) {^,non ^). 



Palla deems, id. {non Cramer, 1777), l.r. (1886) (cj, partim). 



Philogmma violimtms Crowley, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 554. t. 18. f. 1 {^). 2 ( $ ) (1890) 



(Asbanti). 

 Palla riolinitens, Staudinger, Irii; v. p. 266 (1892). 

 Chiiaxes rifilinitfiiK, Butler, Jourii. Lhiii. Soc. Loud. xxT. p. 4U2. n. 155 (1896) (Accra; Cameroons ; 



Old Calabar) ; Auriv., Kongl. So. Vet. Ak. Handl. xxxi. 5. p. 242. n. 59 (1899) (Ashanti ; 



Sklavenkiiste ; Old Calabar ; Kamerun). 

 Chanues coiiiger Butler, I.e. xxt. p. 403. n. 156 (1896) (Old Calabar ; Congo ; Angola). 

 Charaxes deeins var. coniger, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 242. sub n. 60 (1898) (Old Calabar; Kamerun; 



Congo ; Angola). 



cJ. Very close to decius, but the blue borders of the band broader both on 

 fore- and hindwing, the blue and white scaling of the hindwing, above, extending 

 beyond R', the orange area consequently reduced ; the white band as well as the 

 bine borders variable in width and, on hindwing, in length. 



? . Band of wings, upjjerside, white throughout, edged with pale blue 

 proximally and, especially on hindwing, with violet distally, broader than in 

 (lecins, being at least as wide as in usslieri ? ; jiostdiscal spots of forewing either 

 sejjarate as in deeius, milky white, seldom shaded with black or assuming a faint 

 yellow tint, or more or less contiguous and tawny-orange ; subinarginal spots of 

 hindwing similar to those of decius, the white lunules on the wlicile purer 

 white ; the median band broader also on underside and purer white, and the white 

 Hubmarginal lunules larger. 



Early stages not known. 



Hab. West Africa : Gold (^oast to Angola. 



In tiie Tring Museum h ii, 5 ? ? from: Accra, Gold Coast; Kumassi to 



