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DESCRIPTIONS of TWO NEW SPECIES of LEPIDOPTEBA BHOPALOCERA. 

 by tv. c. hewitson, e.l.s. 



Charaxes Cenadox. 



Upper-side. Male rufous-brown. Both wings crossed beyond the 

 middle by a rufous band, broadest where the wings meet, narrow and in 

 the form of a V at its commencement on the costal margin : both wings 

 black from the band to the outer margin. Anterior wing with two 

 black spots within the cell, and three or four larger black spots on the 

 inner border of the band : a marginal series of rufous spots. Posterior 

 wing with a sub -marginal series of lunular rufous spots : the margin 

 black .- two minute spots of lilac-white at the anal angle. 



Underside. Both wings with the central band (which is narrower 

 than above on the anterior wing) silver : three spots in the cell, two 

 below these, one at the end of the cell and three touching the central 

 band, all black bordered with silver : a sub-marginal band of grey, bor- 

 dered towards the anal angle with black. Posterior wing with a black 

 band at the base bordered with silver : three brown bands bordered 

 with silver parallel and near to the inner margin, a band near the base 

 silver at its commencement on the costal margin, black below bordered 

 with silver and in the form of a V where it runs parallel to the bands 

 last described ■ three or four black spots on the central band and be- 

 yond it a band of black spots bordered outwardly with silver : a sub- 

 marginal band of spots and the outer margin black, bordered with 

 silver : two spots of silvery-grey bordered with black at the anal angle. 



Exp. 3nij inch. Hab. Natal. 



In the collection of Mr. Christopher Ward. This species, one of 

 the most beautiful of the genus, decorated as it is profusely with silver, 

 was taken by Mr. Morant, who describes it as exceedingly swift in 

 flight. 



Opsiphakes Orgetorix. 



Upper-side. Male dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed 

 from the costal margin beyond its middle to the anal angle by a curved 

 rufous band, broadest where it crosses the discoidal nervures : three 

 sub-apical white spots. Posterior wing with a tuft of hair having its 

 origin near the end of the cell : the outer margin broadly rufous. 



Under-side rufous, beautifully undulated and spotted with dark 

 brown and white. Anterior wing with a brown spot near the base, a 

 quadrifid spot in the cell bordered with black, a broad transverse dark 

 brown band before the middle : the outer margin rufous-brown, bordered 



