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 5c. E. pyrrhus keianus (PI. VI. 1". •.^. ?). 



Chartaes pyrrhus keianus Rothschild, Nov. Zi>oi.. IV. p. 508. n. 2 (1897) (Kei Toeal ; Great Kei). 

 Charaxes keianus, Nic^Wlle & Kuhii, Jnurn. As. Soc. Deng. LXVII. II. p. 262. n. 42 (1898) (Kei Is., 

 larva, pupa).* 



(J. TT7»^s, npperside. Forewing: discal band less narrowing in front; patch 



R' — M' larger than in Jupiter, extending basad as far or nearly a.s far as j)atch M'^ JI'-', 

 not or scarcely separated from the patch Ix'hind ir and tonching spot H" — 1^, which is 

 mnch larger than \n jupiter, being abont 3 mm. long. Median spots SC — R" larger 

 than in jupiter ; snbmarginal spots as in that subspecies, npper one, 8C* — SC'', 



seldom vestigial. Hindwing : discal band slender, inner edge nearly straight, 



sliglitly sinuate between SC° — R", where there appears a spot which is slightly 

 darker than the rest of the brownisli black basal area : at inner edge of band there 

 is glaucous white scaling only in cell and behind, while the band is more heavily 

 bordered pale glancons blue outwardly up to SC"; discal lunnles of this colour more 

 or less isolated, often nearly absent, except the anal one ; snbmarginal spots little 

 heavier than in jupiter, admarginal spots as in that form, bnt anal yellow mark 

 smaller. 



Underside. Forewing: upper cell-bar less evenly curved than in jupiter, being 



straight in middle or even slightly bent distad ; discocellnlar bar not or slightly 

 dilated distad upon sitbcostals ; snbmcdian bar M' — M- close to origin of M", some- 

 times absent, being then indicated only by the white scaling standing at the proximal 

 side of this bar: submedian bar M- — (SM') absent ; median bars R- — (SIP) closer 

 to cell than in jupiter ; bar R' — R^ continuous with bar R^ — M', merged together 

 with the disrocellular bar, but anteriorly separated from it by a thin whitish 

 plumbeous line; median j)atch R" — M' much more widely separate from discal line 



than in jupiter. Hindwing : submedian and median lines straighter than in 



jupiter, the median one slightly broken at SC", bar SC" — R' being more distal than 

 bar (! — SC'- ; median band straighter outwardly, the discal line bordering it being 

 less curved ; discal spots as in jupiter, bnt upper one wider anteriorly, black outer 

 border of posterior ones sometimes very thin ; black lines upon SM- and SM^ very 

 thin ; oblique abdominal bar also thinner than m jupiter. 



?. Differs horn jupiter like S. Upper discal patches of forewing still larger ; 

 pale glancons blue lunules of hindwing above well isolated. Two of our three ? ? 

 with the upper snbmarginal dot of forewing present above. 



HaL Kei Toeal (('apt. H. C. Webster, January to JIarch 1k96), 2 (?<J, 3 ? ? ; 

 Great Kei (Capt. H. C. Webster, April 1896), 2 c?c?. 



• Mr. de Kic6ville, I.e., says: "This species is described by de Nic^ville in Journ. Bomb. Kat. 

 UUt. Soc, Vol. XII., p, , n. 8, pi. Z, figs. 13, male; H, female (1898). When describing it de 

 NicC'viUe did not know that it would subsequently be named by the Hon. Walter Rothschild." 



My description appeared in December 1897 ; de NicSvillc cites my description, while in 1898 he 

 did not yet know the numlxjr of the page on which his description in Journ. Bomb. Nat. I/ijtt. Stir. 

 will appear, nor have I received, up to December 1898, the number of the Journal which contains 

 de NicCville's description, 



Kiihn, whu has bred the larva, says Q.c.) that it " feeds on Albizzia sp., and also on Mcsua ferrcn 

 (Ironwood). The pupa is of the usual sliape, very broad, roundi'd, smooth, with some small knobs 

 only ronnd the cremastcr. In colour it is pale green, mth snow-white stripes and dashes. ' 



