340 SOUTH-AFEICAN" BUTTERFLIES. 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Angola (Pogge)." — Dewitz. " Chinchoxo 



(FaUie7istein)." — Dewitz. § 

 h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi (Bev. II. Roicley).' 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.- — Elmina {E. Bourhe). Ashanti. — Coll. Brit. 

 Mus. Sierra Leone. — Coll. Hewitson. 



113. (11.) Charaxes Achsemenes, Fekler. 



cJand$ Charaxes AcJuemenes, Feld., Reise d. Novara, Lep., iii. p. 446, 

 pi. lix. ff. 6, 7 [c?] (1867). 



Uxp. ah, Q) 3 in. 



^ Fuscous, ivith a common transverse wliite hand and ivhitish hind- 

 margined sjjots ; bases suffused with olivaceous-greij. Fore-wing : band 

 formed much as in C. Saturnus, but more widely bifid in its upper 

 portion, the traversing black marks being enlarged and confluent, so 

 that the inner part of the band is much narrowed, and also separated 

 from the broader lower part, — its third (lowest) spot being small and 

 far before the others : a faint bluish tinsfe alongf outer edcre of lower 

 part of band ; hind-marginal spots somewhat suffused, inter-nervular, — 

 the lowest sharply divided into two ; in discoidal cell a small whitish 

 spot at the extremity. Hind-wing: band obscured and widely inter- 

 rupted below first median uervule, but its termination shown by a 

 whitish inner-marginal mark a little before anal angle ; white spots 

 submarginal, seven, lunulate, much mixed with bluish ; beyond them, 

 close to hind-margin, a lunulated bluish-white streak, running into 

 both tails as a median stripe, and becoming bronzy-green close to anal 

 angle ; tails rather long, the shorter one (on third median nervule) 

 straight, rather acute, the other slightly curved, blunter ; a marked 

 projection in the outline of the hind-margin between radial and second 

 median nervules. Under side. — Pcde grey, hoary on margins, elsewhere 

 tinged with brownish; before middle marked toith darh ferruginous sti^ice, 

 of which all those in fore-wing and a few of those in hind- wing are on 

 both sides edged with fuscous. Fore-iuing : upper part of white band 

 wider, not so macular; in outer part of band a much broken, thin, 

 black traversing streak, and along the external edge of band a series of 

 black marks, inwardly edged with ochre-yellow lunules, of which the 

 two lowest are large and conspicuous, the others small ; a submarginal 

 row of ochre-yellow lunules (the lowest becoming fuscous), not well 

 marked ; hind-marginal whitish spots small, and mostly rather indis- 

 tinct ; in discoidal cell a short oblique streak near base, a spot followed 

 by a similar more bent streak about middle, and a closing streak curv- 

 ing outward ; along inner edge of white band a much interrupted streak 

 from costa to submedian nervure ; below cell a short streak above first 

 median nervule, and another (nearer base) below it. Hind-wing : band 



