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being remarkably near to an Angolan insect of which we have 

 both sexes ; however, until females are received from Accra 

 which as nearly resemble the male, the point cannot be decided. 



156. Chara-Xes conigeb, sp. n. 



Allied to C. decius, but the males with the white band much 

 more broadly bordered with silvery-blue and extending to just 

 below the median vein of secondaries, the orange-tawny patch 

 which joins it at this point much brighter in colour and forming 

 a well-deBned cone, the outer edge of which is mottled with 

 blackish and bounded by the third median branch ; the tail, 

 which is longer than in C. decius, is also tawny, but tipped with 

 creamy-white ; the submarginal ocellus in the radial interspace 

 is isolated ; the females resemble the insect figured as C. violinitens 

 5 , excepting in having a submarginal band of six hastate tawny 

 (and a seventh nearly white, costal) spots on the primaries. In 

 other respects this species agrees almost in every detail with 

 C. decius. 



Types, a, I. Old Calabar, J 6 ; from S. & Gr. coll. 



c. Congo {Bates coll.), $ ; from S. & Gr. coll. 



d. Angola {Monteiro), d ; from S. & G. coll. 



Hewitson coll. (as C. decius). 

 e, f. Angola, J , ? . 



It is just possible that this may be a seasonal form of C. decius, 

 and G. puMius a seasonal form of C. Ussheri ; but only breeding 

 can decide this. 



157. Chaeaxes decius. 



Papilio decius, Cramer, Pap. JExot. ii. pi. cxiv. A, B (1779). 



a. Accra (U. T. Carter), 6 . 



b. Croboe district, Accra {Higlett), d . 



c. West Africa, 2 • 

 d, e. Ashanti, d" d . 



f. Sierra Leone {Rev. D. F. Morgan), $ . 



Hewitson coll. 



g. Without locality, J . 



158. ChAEAXES PdBLIUS. 



Palla publius, Staudi^ger, Deutsche ent. Zeit., Lep. v. p. 26/ (1892). 

 Philognoma rectifascia, Weymer, Stett. ent. Zeit. liii. p. 91 (1892). 

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