NYMPH ALIN^. 325 



106. (4.) Oharaxes Jahlusa, (Trimen.) 



<^ Nymphalis Jahlusa, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 177, n. 102 (1862); 



and(c?)ii. pi. 3, f. 5(1866). 

 Charaxes Argyjinides, Westw., Proc. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 10. 



Exp. aL, ($) I in. 11 lin. — 2 in. 2 lin. ; ($) 2 in. 5-7 lin. 



$ Fulvous-ochreous, with black spots and hind-marginal harder. 

 Fore-iving : in disco idal cell, a minute round spot in upper part near 

 base, succeeded by a sinuate short transverse streak ; at extremity of 

 cell, an irregularly-quadrate marking ; two rather small spots below 

 median nervure ; a discal transverse series of six spots (of which the 

 upper three, near costa, are contiguous, and sometimes emit rays joining, 

 or almost joining, disco-cellular terminal marking), curving inward to 

 below first median nervule ; a rather narrow hind-marginal border, 

 marked externally with eight spots of the ground-colour, of which the 

 first is linear and indistinct, the second to the fifth decreasingly lanceo- 

 late, and the others bluntly rounded, the last being much the largest ; 

 just before hind-marginal border, between costa and third median 

 nervule, a row of four more or less suffused and contiguous spots, so 

 connected with the border as to shut off" four small spots of the 

 ground-colour ; the second of these enclosed spots is the largest, and 

 paler than the rest (in one instance white) ; base and costa somewhat 

 dusky. Hind-'wing : paler towards costa, fading into whitish on costal 

 edge, — the nervures there situate markedly green ; on costa, about 

 middle, an imperfect ring-spot (sometimes filled with black) ; occasion- 

 ally three minute spots marking upper and outer edge of discoidal 

 cell ; hind-marginal border narrower than in fore-wing, and more 

 broken along its inner edge, enclosing mesially a series of eight small 

 lunulate spots of ground-colour, and externally a continuous lunulate 

 streak of the same colour (commencing on first subcostal nervule, and 

 marked with silvery-bluish at anal angle), leaving a linear but very 

 well-defined black hind-marginal edging ; tails narrow, acute, — the 

 one on third shorter than that on first median nervule. Under side. 

 — Hind-iving, and costal edging and apical area of fore-wing, pale 

 olivaceous-grey, varied with hroivnish and ivith silvery marlcings. Fore- 

 wing : rest of area pale salmon-red ; spots as on upper side, but 

 smaller, more sharply defined, and thinly edged with silvery-white ; 

 two additional spots near base, one in cell and the other just above it 

 on costa ; spots of discal row (except the lowest) broadly bordered 

 externally by silvery ; hind-marginal border greyish-silvery, — its exter- 

 nal spots (all faintly marked except the lowest) pale salmon-red, and 

 the two lowest inwardly edged by conspicuous black lunulate marks ; 

 the streak before hind-marginal border much narrower than on upper 

 side and prolonged to first median nervule, — the spots between it and 

 border silvery, mixed with salmon-red in the lower ones. Hind-iving : 

 before middle, between costal and submedian nervui-es, a transverse 



