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CHARAXES. By Dr. 0. Aurivillius. 
contraria. Transvaal to Somali and Unyoro. — f. contraria Weym. Forewing above with large white marginal spots, 2 
postdiscal dots in 6 and 7, discal dots in the same cellules and a spot in the cell. Hindwing above with a fine, 
undulate blue postdiscal line, white submarginal dots and thick white marginal streaks, more or less bordered 
with bluish. Undersurface with (silvery) white ground-colour and very conspicuous black markings. German 
cytila. East Africa. — f. cytila Rothsch. Forewing above with small or indistinct marginal spots and two postdiscal 
catoclirous. spots. Under surface unicolorous red-brown or chocolate-colour. Angola, Nyassaland. — f. catochrous Stgr. 
Forewing above with very small or indistinct marginal spots and at most with three blue spots at the costal 
margin (a postdiscal, a discal and one in the cell); marginal streaks of the hindwing not dotted with red. Ground¬ 
colour of the first two-thirds of the under surface whitish, contrasting sharply with the marginal part. Niger 
holla mil to Congo and Uganda. — f. hollandi Btlr. Marginal spots on the upperside of the forewing small or absent and 
at most one postdiscal spot; under surface with alternate darker and lighter bands, the ground-colour brown. 
carteri. Common in West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Congo and Uganda. — f. carteri Btlr. only differs from the 
preceding in the red-violet tone of the under surface, especially on its darker parts. West Africa from Sierra 
ephyra. Leone to Congo. — f. ephyra Godt. Forewing with small but distinct marginal spots and one postdiscal spot; 
marginal spots of the hindwing without red streaks. Under surface coloured either as in hollandi or as in carteri. 
lutacea. West Africa. — f. lutacea Rothsch. Forewing above at the base greenish with a large spot in the cell: discal 
and postdiscal spots single or absent; marginal spots indistinct or absent; the marginal streaks of the hind- 
violacea. wing in cellules 4—6 ochre-yellow or reddish. Under surface dark. Congo and Unyoro. — f. violacea Rothsch. 
Upper surface with violet-blue ground-colour; forewing with or without marginal spots; marginal streaks 
of the hindwing dark-centred. Under surface as in hollandi or carteri. Ashanti to Congo. ■— All these forms 
intergrade more or less and hence cannot be sharply differentiated. — The $$ are much more variable even 
than the <$<$ and some of them are so dissimilar above that they look like quite different species. The cell of the 
forewing above has a light spot at the apex or is entirely light. It is noteworthy that many forms are very 
like other species of Gharaxes and exactly mimic these. In order to simplify the analysis of the numerous forms I 
divide them into three groups: 
1. Females hr which the forewing above has two almost vertical rows of light spots towards the hind- 
margin (cf. ochracea 33 b). 
kirki. f. kirki Btlr. Hindwing above with broad white median band, with the proximal border bluish and the 
distal somewhat yellowish, marginal streaks olive, in cellules 4—6 orange. The two rows of spots on the fore- 
rving are joined together in cellules la—3 and only in cellules 4—7 more or less completely separated; the band 
ochracea. formed by them is yellowish white to ochre-yellow. German and British East Africa. — f. ochracea Rothsch. 
(33b). The discal and postdiscal spots of the fore wing ochreous and in cellules la—3 or only in la joined together; 
the hindwing above with broad pale yellow' median band and ochreous marginal streaks (only the streak in 
la greenish). Under surface red-brown or grey-brown in the basal part, yellow-brown or yelloAvish in the mar- 
daria. ginal. Gaboon and Congo. -— f. daria Rothsch. & Jord. The transverse band on the upperside of the wings 
is in shape similar to that of ethalion §, but is entirely Avhite and in the posterior part of the forewing narrowly, 
etheoctes. on the hindwing broadly margined with blue. Abyssinia. — f. etheocles Cr. Discal and postdiscal spots of the 
forewing white or whitish, connected in cellules la—3 or all widely separated; in the latter case the postdiscal 
spots are all small. Hindwing above with broad white median band, bluish at the edges, and Avith yelloAA'ish 
regal is. or whitish marginal streaks. Sierra Leone to Gaboon. Resembles the $ of Ch. ameliae. — f. regalis Rothsch: 
The spots in la and lb of the forewing united and blue, the rest free, rounded and yelloAV or whitish. Hindwing 
above with blue median band and yelloAV marginal streaks. Recalls the $ of Ch. imperialis. Sierra Leone to 
dewitsi. Old Calabar. — f. dewitzi Btlr. Forewing above in la and lb with large blue spots, about 10 mm. in breadth, 
in 2—6 with bluish discal spots, in 2—5 entirely without postdiscal spots and only in 6 and 7 with whitish ones. 
Hindwing above Avith very broad blue median band (about 12—14 mm.) and greenish, in cellules 4—6 reddish 
seriata. marginal streaks. Angola. — f. seriata Rothsch. Tipper surface Avith red-violet reflection. ForeAving in cellules 
la and lb quite unicolorous or only with yellowish postdiscal spots; cellules 2—■7 with small, AA'idelv separated, 
yelloAV discal and postdiscal spots. Hindwing above without median band, but with orange-yellow marginal 
alladinis. streaks and sometimes Avith indistinct violet postdiscal line. Gaboon. — f. alladinis Btlr. Upper surface Avith 
bluish reflection. Otherwise only differs from seriata in having the spots of the hindwing blue, violet or whitish 
fulgens. and the marginal streaks on the hindwing grey-blue or greenish. Gold Coast to Cameroons. — f. fulgens Rothsch. 
only differs from alladinis in having two blue-violet discal spots in cellules 6 and 7 on the upperside of the liind- 
virilis Aving. Sierra Leone. — f. virilis Rothsch. Upper surface bluish black. Forewing only A\ r ith a single blue discal 
spot in cellule 6 and with an indistinct blue spot in the cell. Hindwing as in seriata. In the absence of the spots 
on the upper surface this female form strongly resembles a (j. ■—-It need scarcely be pointed out that the 
forms here mentioned may intergrade without any sharp demarcation. 1 \ 
