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with white, and then by nearly connected green sub marginal 

 lunules, the hinder angle of the fore-wings being also marked 

 with a green spot. Towards the anal angle of the hind-wings 

 are two black spots. 



The under side is of a pale coffee-brown, with some short 

 blue lines and streaks towards the base, bordered with black. 

 On the fore-wings are three round black spots in blue rings 

 near the base, and the two lowest white spots of the band are 

 produced nearly to the hind-margin, and are each marked at 

 three-quarters of their length with a large black spot. On the 

 hind-wings the lower part of the white band is bordered out- 

 side with green, and then, much more extensively, with blackish, 

 and the white lunules are bordered outside with blue, most 

 broadly towards the anal angle. The space between these 

 lunules and the anal angle, including the innermost tail, which 

 is the shortest, and the area reaching nearly to the root of the 

 other tail, is green, with four prominent black spots, two of 

 which are close together near the anal angle. 



The male, as in the numerous closely-allied species of this 

 group, is probably smaller, of a deep velvety black, with some 

 detached blue spots on the fore-wings, and some slight white 

 or greenish markings towards the hind-margins of the hind- 

 wings. There is no specimen exactly resembling Cramer's 

 figure, from which the one in our plate is copied, in the col- 

 lection of the British Museum; and Drury ("Illustrations of 

 Exotic Entomology," iii., pi. 10) has figured a different, and not 

 very closely allied, West African species of Charaxes, C. etesipe 

 (Godart), under the name of Papilio ethtotles. 



GENERA ALLIED TO CHARAXES. 



Ethiopian Region. 



The genus Palla, Hiibner, is so closely allied to Charaxes 

 that Mr. Trimen does not consider it worthy of separation 



