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broad between costa and radial nervule, but below tliis suddenly attenu- 
ated into a broken macular thin streak, and ending on first median 
nervule ; inwardly bounding band a dark ferruginous streak, strongly 
marked, and black edged as far as the band is broad, but thence quite 
thin, and prolonged in a zigzag deflection to inner margin ; before band 
two broken transverse striae crossing cell, and a thin curved line closing 
it ; beyond middle two parallel, black, irregularly sinuate streaks from 
costa to inner margin, enclosing a dull yellowish stripe, the inner streak 
thicker than the outer, especially in its upper half; subraarginal series 
of lunules as on upper side, but more clearly defined, and the blue in 
them confined to their outer portion (but in those below radial enlarged 
and marked with black) ; hind-margin rather narrowly bordered with 
white (which below radial nervule is clouded with greenish), traversed 
mesially by an ochre-yellow line, most apparent and regular in its upper 
portion. Head with four white spots, two in front and two behind, all 
superior. 
I have not seen the $ , but Felder describes it as being on the upper side 
much like C. Pelias (Cram.), having the common band and the spots on the 
hind-margin of fore-wing sufi^used with fulvous, the latter being much larger 
and the former broader than in the ^ ; the bases ferruginous, and the sub- 
marginal spots and hind-marginal streak of the hind-wing much enlarged. 
The under side is described as being almost the same as in the $ , but hoary 
at the bases, and with the submarginal spots much larger. ^ 
The pale dull colouring of fuscous and white on the upper side, and of 
grey streaked thinly with ferruginous and black on the under side, together 
with the much-produced fore-wings, readily distinguish this small Charaxes 
from any known South- African congeners, as far as the ^ sex is concerned. 
The under-side pattern, as Felder remarks, bears some resemblance to that 
of the West- African C. Etheta, Godt., but it is much duller and less varied, 
with much thinner markings. 
C. Aclicemenes appears to be decidedly rare south of the Tropic, its nearest 
principal habitat being the neighbourhood of the Zambesi, while the wideness 
of its range is shown by recorded stations so far asunder as Angola and 
Abyssinia. Felder, however, gives Natal as one of its localities, and there is 
a specimen from Delagoa Bay in the Hewitson Collection. 
Localities of Charaxes Aclmincnes. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal.—" Port Natal. "—Felder. 
H. Delagoa Bay.— Hewitson Coll. 
L. Bechuanaland. — Crocodile Biver, S. of Shoshong {F. W. Barber). 
1 Mr. Butler {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lontl., 1869, p. 274, note) identifies Achcemencs, Feld., as 
the 6 of the unpublished Jocaste in the Collection of the British Museum, not referring to 
that author's description of the ? . Mr. Butler adopted the name of Jocaste in his arrange- 
ment of the genus Charaxes {Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 628), and intimates that his 
" sectional description, taken in connection with the locality, sufficiently characterised the 
insect, so that Felder s name must sink into a synonym ; " but the brief diagnosis to which 
he refers was framed to include four species, and no characters were given to distinguish 
Jocaste from the other three butterflies. The locality, moreover, M'as " Senegal," whereas 
Folder's specimens are noted as from Natal and the Zambesi. 
