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150. ChAEAXES NIGRESCEifS. 



Possibly a seasonal form of C. fulvescens ; ia some respects 

 nearer to C. varanes, from whicli it differs in the yeilowisli basal 

 area and blackish external area of the upper surface ; the outer 

 or submarginal row of spots reduced to points, the inner row 

 small but sharply defined and ochreous ; spots on disc of secon- 

 daries large and black : under surface pale greenish-yellow 

 towards the base, all the markings strongly defined in black, 

 the postmedian stripe dark and well defined, the first ocellus 

 very black, the external bordering of the postmedian stripe 

 very silvery, very metallic, not merely glaucous ; external area 

 more olivaceous than in C. varanes or C. fulvescens. Expanse of 

 wings 90-98 millims. 



Type, a. Sierra Leone (Dr. Preuss), S ; from S. & Gr. coll. 

 h, c. Sierra Leone (^Barchard), § , (5 • 

 d, e. Sierra Leone (P. Crowley), c? , $ . 



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



g. Accra {E. T. Carter), 6 . 

 h. Ashanti, c5' . 



Hewitson coll. 



i. Grold Coast, 6 . 



I should unhesitatingly have considered this to be distinct 

 from C. fulvescens, but for the fact that Drury gives Sierra Leone 

 as the locality from which his specimen (figured as P. varanes) 

 was received. 



151. Chaeaxes eulvescens. 



Charaxes fulvescens, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. xii. p. 216 (1891). 

 Papilio varanes, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. iii. p. 42, pi. 31. figs. 1, 2 (1782). 



a. Barombi, Cameroons {Dr. Preuss), S ; from S. & Gr. coll. 



h. Victoria, Cameroons {Druce coll.), 6 ; from S. & Gr. coll. 



c. Congo {Pates coll.), 6 ; from S. & Gr. coll. 



Hewitson coll. 



d. Without locality. 



27. C. LicHAS Geoup. 



152. Chaeaxes lichas. 



Philognoma lichas, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. hep. pi. 49. fig. 3 (1850). 

 a-c. Ashanti, S 6 , 2 ' 

 d. Ashanti {coll. Kaden), c?; from S. & Gr. coll. 



