NYMPHALID M. 

 CHARAXES. V. 



CHARAXES AMELLE. $ 20, 21. 



& Charaxes Amelia, Doumct, Kerne et Magasin de Zoologie, 1861. Plate V. fig, 1, 



page 171. 



Upperside. Female rufous-brown, paler at the base of the. anterior wing, tinted 

 with blue on the outer half of the posterior wing. Anterior wing with several white 

 spots. One at the end of the cell (outside), six (one of which near the inner margin 

 is large and square) forming a central band and seven forming a second transverse 

 band beyond the middle : a submarginal series of orange-white spots. Posterior wing 

 crossed before the middle by a broad band of white, outside of which near the costal 

 margin is an isolated white spot : a series of seven lilac spots near the outer margin 

 and a submarginal series of oblong orange-white spots. 



Underside green-brown with the spots and bands as above. Anterior wing with 

 four blue-black spots within the cell and two spots below these bordered (some on both 

 sides) with lilac-white : the spots of the central band bordered inwardly with black, the 

 two spots of the second band nearest the anal angle bordered above with black and 

 below with yellow and by two large blue-black spots bordered with lilac. Posterior 

 wing crossed near the base by a lilac-white band bordered on both sides with black : 

 the central band bordered inwardly with black : crossed beyond the middle by a series 

 of seven lunular lilac spots followed by the same number of black spots and a sub- 

 marginal series of white spots broadly bordered above by lilac. 



Exp. 4h inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In tbe Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



I owe the great pleasure I derive from seeing this beautiful species, male and female, in my collec- 

 tion to my generous fiieud Mr. Chapman of Glasgow. 



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 Published April 1st, lS7(i.J 



