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Show 472 ON BUTTERFLIES FROM CENTRAL AFRICA. [June 17, 83. CHARAXES CASTOR, Cram. The red submarginal band on the underside of the posterior wings very much wider than in either the East or West Coast forms. 84. CHARAXES BRUTUS, Cram. 85. CHARAXES CYNTHIA, Butler. 86. CHARAXES CANDIOPE, Godt. 87. CHARAXES ETESIPE, Godt. 88. CHARAXES TIRIDATES, Godt. 89. CHARAXES EUPALIS, Drury. 90. PHILOGNOMA VARANES, Cram. 91. PHILOGNOMA FALCATA, Butl. SATTEIDJ.. 92. GNOPHODES CHELYS, Fabr. 93. MELANITIS LEDA, Linn. 94. IDIOMORPHUS NANODES, n. sp. Male.- Upperside. Both wings blackish brown, slightly tinged with violet; anterior wings paler towards the apex and crossed by a broad purple band broader than in hewitsoni, Daum., from beyond the middle of the costal margin to nearly the outer angle ; a minute subapical white spot. Posterior wings with a band of same colour commencing on the costal margin at about two thirds of its length, extending to the outer margin, thence gradually narrowing down the outer portion of the wings to near the anal angle. Underside. Basal two thirds of both wings dark olivaceous brown, the outer edge of which is sharply defined by a narrow pale violaceous space. Anterior wings with the outer third violaceous brown in which are three spots, two being subapical and small with a pale iris, situate below the subcostal nervule and the first discoidal nervure respectively, the third spot larger with a black iris and situate between the middle and lowest median nervule; a sub-marginal sinuate brown line, becoming obsolete towards the posterior angle. Posterior wings with the outer third browner than it is on the anterior wings, with a violaceous space at the apex and a row of seven spots each with a black iris, the first, fifth, sixth, and seventh iarger than the others, the fifth being the largest, the sixth and seventh spots at the anal angle distinct, not contiguous like the anal spots oi hewitsoni. Outside the spots is a sinuate dark brown band, broader towards the anal angle, and on its inner edge curving round the spots. Expanse 2 | inches. Nearest to /. hewitsoni, but with longer wings and more spots on the underside. I have several specimens of a closely allied species from Cameroons, not, I believe* hitherto described. |
