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and the form of the tawny band across the primaries agrees with 

 that of the white band of G. etheocles. 



23. CHABAiES YIOLA. 



5 . Charaxes viola, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 627, pi- xxxvi. 

 fig. 4. 



2 (as J). Charaxes chiron, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 168, pi. Iviii. 

 (1866). 



a. Old Calabar (White), 6; from S. & &. coll. 



b. "West Africa, $ . 



c. Angola {Bogers), 6 ; from S. & G. coll. 

 d, e. Ashanti, S 6 . 



f. Croboe District, Accra {Higlett), 6 . 



Hewitson coll. (as C. epliyra <S ). 

 y. Angola, c? . 



The male of C. viola nearly resembles that of C. Kirkii, but has 

 a greener tint above and a redder tint below ; the two subapical 

 spots on the upper surface of the primaries are wanting, and the 

 marginal spots are metallic green ; the red streaks on the 

 marginal lunules of the secondaries are almost or altogether 

 obliterated. Staudinger's so-called male from Senegal is un- 

 questionably a female ; how he failed to recognize its identity 

 with this insect figured by me in 1865 I do not understand. 



24. Chaeaxes etheocles. 



5 . Papilio etheocles, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. cxix. figs. D, E (1779)- 

 S • Papilio ephyra, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 355, no. 18 (1823). 



a. Ondo country, Lagos (Sir G. Carter), S ; from S. & G. 



coll. 

 h. Cape Coast, W. Africa (F. Nihlett), $ . 



c. Barombi, Cameroons (Druce coll.), d ; from S. & G. 



coll. 



d. Stanley Pool, Congo River (S. H. Johnston), 6 ; from 



G. & S. coll. 



The male on the upper surface much resembles that sex of 

 C. viola, but the marginal spots of the primaries are smaller and 

 less difi'used, the white submarginal spots of the secondaries are 

 also smaller. On the under surface the differences are more 

 pronounced, the whole basal area being more or less suffused 

 with white, and the lunate spots towards outer margin much 

 darker and well-defined. M. Godart's description is sufficiently 

 good to identify the species with certainty. 



