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broad between costa and radial nervule, but below tliis suddenly attenu- 

 ated into a broken macular thin streak, and ending on first median 

 nervule ; inwardly bounding band a dark ferruginous streak, strongly 

 marked, and black edged as far as the band is broad, but tbence quite 

 thin, and prolonged in a zigzag deflection to inner margin ; before band 

 two broken transverse striae crossing cell, and a thin curved line closing 

 it ; beyond middle two parallel, black, irregularly sinuate streaks from 

 costa to inner margin, enclosing a dull yellowish stripe, the inner streak 

 thicker than the outer, especially in its upper half; subraarginal series 

 of lunules as on upper side, but more clearly defined, and the blue in 

 them confined to their outer portion (but in those below radial enlarged 

 and marked with black) ; hind-margin rather narrowly bordered with 

 white (which below radial nervule is clouded with greenish), traversed 

 mesially by an ochre-yellow line, most apparent and regular in its upper 

 portion. Head with four white sjDots, two in front and two behind, all 

 superior. 



I have not seen the $ , but Felder describes it as being on the upper side 

 much like C. Pelias (Cram.), having the common band and the spots on the 

 hind-margin of fore-wing suffused with fulvous, the latter being much larger 

 and the former broader than in the ^ ; the bases ferruginous, and the sub- 

 marginal spots and hind-marginal streak of the hind-wing much enlarged. 

 The under side is described as being almost the same as in the ^ , but hoary 

 at the bases, and with the submarginal spots much larger.^ 



The pale dull colouring of fuscous and white on the upper side, and of 

 grey streaked thinly with ferruginous and black on the under side, together 

 with the much-produced fore-wings, readily distinguish this small Charaxes 

 from any known South- African congeners, as far as the 1^ sex is concerned. 

 The under-side pattern, as Felder remarks, bears some resemblance to that 

 of the West- African C. Etheta, Godt. , but it is . much duller and less varied, 

 with much thinner markings. 



C. Acluemenes appears to be decidedly rare south of the Tropic, its nearest 

 principal habitat being the neighboui-hood of the Zambesi, while the wideness 

 of its range is shown by recorded stations so far asunder as Angola and 

 Abyssinia. Felder, however, gives Natal as one of its localities, and there is 

 a specimen from Delagoa Bay in the Hewitson Collection. 



Localities of Charaxes AchKinenes. 



I. South Africa. 



E. Natal.—" Port Natal."— Felder. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Hewitson Coll. 



L. Bechuanaland. — Crocodile River, S. of Shoshong {F. W. Barber). 



^ Mr. Butler (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 274, note) identifies Achcemenes, Feld., as 

 the i of the unpublished Jocaste in the Collection of the British Museum, not referring to 

 that author's description of the 9 . Mr. Butler adopted the name of Jocaste in his arrange- 

 ment of the genus Charaxes {Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 628), and intimates that his 

 " sectional description, taken in connection with the locality, sufficiently characterised the 

 insect, so that Welder's name must sink into a synonym ; " but the brief diagnosis to which 

 he refers was framed to include four species, and no characters were given to distinguish 

 Jocaste from the other three butterflies. The locality, moreover, was " Senegal," whereas 

 Felder's specimens are noted as from Natal and the Zambesi. 



