cithaeron. 
violetta. 
numenes. 
veumanni. 
tiridates. 
marginatus. 
mixtus. 
Tjipunctatas. 
imperialis. 
132 CHARAXES. By Dr. C. Attrivillius. 
and 2 or more white spots behind the middle; small yellowish marginal spots in cellules lb and 2. The hind¬ 
wing above in the middle between veins 2 and 7 with a very broad (about 15 mm.) ochre-yellow transverse 
band, distally irrorated with dark, which covers the basal half of cellules 2—6; streak-like blue submarginal 
spots and narrow yellowish marginal streaks. On the under surface the light spots of the forewing are larger 
and the hindwing has in the middle an irregular white band, proximally bordered with yellowish; the $ is 
much larger than the Cape Colony, Kaffirland, Natal and Transvaal. ■— Larva green with two whitish, 
red-centred and black-margined dorsal spots, the larger on segment 6 and the smaller on segment 8. 
Ch. cithaeron Fldr. (31 b). <$: forewing above black with two transverse rows of blue spots; the prox¬ 
imal row in the middle, composed of 6 spots (2 in cellule lb and one each in 2—5), the distal consists of 8 
spots, of which the first, in 6 and 7, are white; an elongate blue spot in la beyond the middle. Hindwing 
above beyond the middle with a broad transverse band, posteriorly whitish and anteriorly blue, blue submargi¬ 
nal spots and whitish marginal streaks. The basal part of the under surface with irregularly arranged, black, 
Avhite-edged transverse streaks. The $ has on the upperside a broad, curved white transverse band, proximally 
sharply defined, on the forewing and a bluish white transverse band on the hinclwing and is hence very similar 
above to the $ of violetta (31 a). East Africa from Natal to Kenia in British East Africa. 
Ch. violetta Smith (31 a). Both sexes above almost exactly like the corresponding sexes of cithaeron, 
but differing in the presence of a fine, nearly straight transverse line in the middle of the hindwing beneath, 
distally margined with white, in the $ narrowly, in the $ for a breadth of 2—3 mm. Delagoa Bay to Nyassaland 
and Mombasa. — Larva green, sprinkled with minute yellowish dots; horns on the head bluish or violet; the 
dorsal spots grey or rust-coloured. 
Ch. numenes Hew. (31 c). Tails of the hindwing short. Hindwing beneath somewhat beyond the middle 
with a continuous, fine, gently curved, black transverse line, distally bordered with white, almost exactly as 
in violetta. In this these two species differ from all the rest of The tiridates group. S', wings above bluish black, 
at the base black-brown; forewing in the middle with four small blue spots in the basal part of cellules 2—5 
and usually also behind the middle with a transverse row of blue dots; marginal spots distinct, ochre-yellow. 
Hindwing beyond the middle with a row of blue dots, incurved in cellule 6; small whitish submarginal spots 
and fine whitish marginal streaks. The $ agrees almost entirely with that of tiridates above (cf. 31 b). Sierra 
Leone to Angola and Uganda. — neumanni Rothsch. has larger yellow marginal spots on both wings and somewhat 
longer tail-appendages on the hindwing; Abyssinia. 
Ch. tiridates Cr. (31 b). Tails of the hindwing normally developed. The median line on the underside 
of the hindwing neither continuous nor straight, but very deeply sinuate and broken up into transverse streaks 
in cellules lc—8. The S has the upperside of the wings coloured and marked exactly as the S of numenes'. 
marginal streaks of the hindwing yellow or whitish. the basal half of the forewing and the hindwing to 
far beyond the middle olivaceous brown-grey; distal half of the forewing black with white, nearly straight 
median band, 2 or 3 whitish subapical spots and small yellowish marginal spots; the black marginal band 
of the hindwing is about 7 mm. in breadth and has blue, white-dotted submarginal spots and yellowish mar¬ 
ginal streaks. — Larva green with a large brown spot on the back of the sixth segment. Pupa green with light 
nebulous spots. A common species, distributed from Sierra Leone to Angola and Uganda. — In marginatus 
Rothsch. & Jord., from Abyssinia, the marginal spots on the upperside of both wings are larger and form a mar¬ 
ginal band only interrupted by the veins. 
Ch. mixtus Rothsch. The S is very similar to that of tiridates and only differs in having the marginal 
spots of the forewing short and whitish and the marginal streaks of the hindwing thick, undivided, blue; the 
blue spots behind the middle of the hindwing are also much larger than in tiridates. The $ is considerably 
larger than the S> but similar in colour and markings, hence entirely different from tiridates $. Cameroons 
and Congo. 
Ch. bipunctatus Rothsch. is another close ally of tiridates, distinguished chiefly by the very short, tooth- 
like tails of the hindwing. Both sexes above coloured and marked like those of tiridates ; the blue spots, however, 
in the <$ in part indistinct or absent and the marginal streaks of the hindwing thick, ochre-yellow and not 
interrupted. Ashanti to Aruwimi. 
Ch. imperialis Btlr. S ■ forewing above with a straight blue transverse band, which starts somewhat 
behind the middle of the hindmargin, runs obliquely towards the apex, gradually narrowing anteriorly and bro¬ 
ken up into spots; the band is 5 mm. in breadth at the hindmargin and only continuous to vein 2, then broken 
up into spots; the spots in cellules 3—5 contain white dots and those in cellules 6 and 7 are white, the one 
in cellule 7 placed nearer to the base than that in 6; the forewing is black and has in addition to these spots 
a white dot at the apex of the cell in cellule 4, a white dot before the middle of cellules 5 and 6 and small blue 
marginal spots. On the hindwing the blue band is continued to vein 2 with a breadth of about 7 mm. and 
placed almost exactly in the middle, covering the apex of the cell; blue submarginal spots and marginal streaks; 
tails short, about 3 mm. in length. On the under surface of the hindwing the black, distally light-margined 
transverse streaks of cellules 2—7 are placed in a nearly straight line. In the $ the blue median band between 
