NYMPH ALID.E. CHARAXES. 



CHARAXES PITHODORIS. IS, 19. 



Upperside. Male blue-black crossed by a broad, common pale blue baud, 

 increasing in breadth from the second branch of the median nervure of the anterior 

 wing to the inner margin of the posterior wing : preceded on the anterior wing by a 

 double series (and a single spot within the cell) of pale blue spots. Posterior wing 

 without tails : a submarginal series of minute pale blue spots two of which are 

 near together at the anal angle. 



Underside rufous, pale. The basal half of both wings crossed between the 

 nervines by several dark blue lines bordered (some on both sides) with pale blue. 

 Both wings crossed a little below the middle by two very indistinct bands of pale 

 brown the outer band broken into spots. Anterior wing with a dark blue spot near 

 the inner margin before its middle and a bifid spot of the same colour near the 

 anal angle both bordered with pale blue. Posterior wing with a submarginal series 

 of pale blue spots. 



Exp. 3^ inch. Hab. Angola, Rogers. 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



