338 New Forms of the Genus Charaxes (Nymphalidae) 



6. Charaxes penrici Roths, f. dealbata f . nov. 



This curious form may be treated as an individual aberration, unless 

 future material may show it to be confined to an area where the typical 

 form is absent. 



3 . Fore wing with the band narrower below vein 2 and without 

 white scaling in this part ; spot in 2 with reduced white scaling. Hind 

 wing with the band half as wide and without white, blue as in etesipe 

 Godt., and not reaching the cell. A small white spot in 7 proximally 

 of the blue spot but separated from it. The spots of the band are more 

 sharply defined on the inner edge than on the outer. 



Underside of fore wing with postdiscal patches below 2 and in 

 cellule 2 smaller, edged with chestnut on the outside and more heavily 

 with black on the inside. Hind wing as in the typical form, but the 

 postdiscal chestnut band slightly more strongly marked. 



Kibokolo do Zombo, Portuguese Congo, two 3 3 . 



In Tring Museum, one 3 from Pungo Ndongo, Angola. 



7. Charaxes druceanus Btl. proximans subsp. nov. 



Specimens from West and South Africa are typical. Specimens 

 from Ehodesia, Nyasaland, South Congo, and northwards, are dis- 

 tinguished by a narrower black distal border on the fore wing, more 

 noticeably above vein 4. The black margin of the hind wing is mostly 

 a little narrower. The silver band on the fore wing below is broader. 

 On the hind wing the postdiscal silvery line is less strongly curved. 



? . Distal black margin much narrower, discal bands deeper 

 ochreous. 



Nyasaland (type 3), also in the Joicey collection from the Katanga, 

 North Rhodesia, and Uganda (type ?). One 3 from Toro approaches 

 the West African form. Also from Angola, Fwambo, and Mashonaland 

 in the British Museum. 



8. Charaxes porthos. Sm. dummeri subsp. nov. 



3 . Fore wing with the blue band placed farther from the margin 

 and inclined to be narrower. Hind wing with discal band a little 

 narrower, spot in base of 3 very small, those in 5 and 6 smaller than in 

 the type form, the one in 7 larger. 



Underside not constantly different from the typical form. 



Uganda : Mabera Forest, 4,000 feet, R. A. Dummer, thirteen 3 3 . 



