374 DB. A. G. BUTLER OK THE 



66. ChABAXES THTSII*. 



Charaxes thysii, Capronnier, Comptes Rend. Soc. Ent, Belg. xxxiii. 

 p. cxxv (1889). 

 Congo. 



I have been quite unable to identify tMs species with anything 

 we possess : it expands 2 inches, has the upper surface black- 

 brown with blue reflections ; the primaries with a sub marginal 

 series of blue spots uniting at the submedian vein into a metallic 

 blue band which runs parallel to the outer margin of secondaries : 

 so far the description answers fairly to the male of G. laodice, 

 but the secondaries are said to have two short tails. Under 

 surface silvery white, with a continuous brown submarginal line 

 sprinkled with black markings on the secondaries, the border of 

 these wings being also brown, with little black lunules ; there 

 are also spots and little interrupted lines of black at the base of 

 the primaries, and a large black-brown patch at external angle. 



11. c. tieidates greoiip. 



67. Charaxes impebialis. 



S . Charaxes imperialis, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 531, pi. xi. 

 %. 3 ; 2 . Proc. Zool. Soc. 1887, p. 670. 



a. Sierra Leone (Dr. Preuss), 6 ; from S. & G-. coll. 

 h. Eio del E-ey {Johnston), $ . 

 The male is labelled "Charaxes imperialis, Stgr. in litt." It is 

 surprising how careless Dr. Stau dinger is in looking up the 

 authorship of a species ; however carefully it may have been 

 figured and described, it is still in danger of being redescribed as 

 new : this is repeatedly the case in his ' Exotische Schmetter- 

 linge.' 



C. imperialis is at present very rare in collections ; for thirteen 

 years the type in Mr. Swanzy's collection was the only specimen 

 known to me. 



68. ChABAXES AMELIiE. 



S • Charaxes Amelise, Doumet, Rev. Zool. 1861, p. 171, pi. v. fig. 1 ; 

 Hewitson, Exot. Butt. v. Char. pi. v. figs. 20, 21 (1876). 



S • Charaxes regius, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. x. p. 191 (1889). 



a-d. Sierra Leone {Dr. Preuss), 6 6,2; from S. & Gr. coll. 

 e-g. Sierra Leone ( Barchard), $ $ . 



* Since this paper was written, a coloured drawing of the type has been shown 

 to me by Mr. Aurivillius ; the species is allied to C. Whytei. 



