( 313 ) 



than the others ; marginal line indistinct or, at least, not conspicnons ; postdisco- 

 snbmarginal interspaces glossy, pinkish buff or vinaceons buff ; discal interspaces 

 not glossy. 



? . Discal interspaces of upper- and underside somewhat paler than in c? ; median 

 bars of forewing above often patch-like, closer to cell than to discal bars ; discal bars 

 more blackish than in S, the upper ones not (or little) heavier than the others. 



Hindwiug : white submarginal spot within postdisco-snbmarginal patches all 



developed, the upper one often obsolete, never larger than the second. 



Underside: postdiscal slate-black bars of hindwing heavier than iu S, the upper 

 ones more luniform than the others ; tail 8 to 10 mm. long. 



Length of forewing : (J, 37 — 44 mm. 

 „ ,, „ ? , 49 — 65 mm. 



Penis with few teeth above, but with a lateral patch of teeth about 3 mm. from 

 the apex (PI. VIII. f. 5) ; penis-funnel long, slender, its extremity convex above. 



Hab. Sikkim to Malaeca and Tonkin. In Tring Museum 29 <?(?, In ? ? from : 

 Sikkim ; Khasia Hills ; Garo Hills ; Naga Hills ; Katha, Burma ; Theiping, Mai. 

 Pen. ; Tonkin. 



A common species at lower altitudes, occurring in Sikkim from Ajnil to October; 

 apparently not varying according to season. 



8. Charaxes aristogiton. 



Charaxes arislogilon Felder, Beise Novara, Lep. p. 444. n. 727 (1867) (hub. ?) ; But!., Trans. Eiit. 



Soc. Land. p. 121. n. 18 (1870) (Sikkim) ; Nicev., Btitt. of India II. p. 282, n. 573 (1886) 



(Sikkim ; Sylhet ; Upp. Tenasserim) ; Manders, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p 526. n. 93 ( 1890) 



(Shan States) ; Adams., Cat. Butt. Burma p. 20. n. 207 (1889) ; Nic^v., Joarn. Bombay N. //. 



Soc. V. p. 296. n. 50 (1890) (Chin Lnshai) ; Butl., Joam. Linn. Soc. Lond. XXV. p. 397. 



n. 139 (1896) (Darjiling ; Upp. Tenasserim). 

 Nymphalis polymna var. C. aristogiton, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 273. sub n. 52 (1895). 

 Charaxes desa Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 832. (1878) (Moolai ; Upp. Tenass.) 

 Charaxes aristogeton (!), Elwes, Tram. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 368. n. 214 (1888) (Sikkim). 

 Haridra arislogon (!), Swinhoe, ibid., p. 289. n. 196 (1893) (Khasia Hills). 

 Charaxes (Haridra) aristogiton, Niceville, in Risley, Gazetteer of Sikkim p. 148. n. 236 (1894) 



(Sikkim) ; id., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI. p. 552. n. 8. t. 2. f. 11. 12 (1897) (si/n. jiro parte ; 



gynaDdromorph. spec.). 

 Haridra aristogiton, Moore, Lep. Ind. II. p. 236. t. 173. f. 1. la (1896) (Sikkim ; Bhotan ; Naga 



Hills ; Sylhet). 

 Haridra desa Moore, I.e. p. 235. t. 172. f. 1. la. U. Ic. J, ? (1896) (Tenasserim : Moolai, Toungoo, 



Thoungyeen). 

 Haridra adamsoni Moore, I.e. p. 236. t. 173. f. 2. 2a. (J (1896) (Mepley Valley, Upp. Tenass., Feb.). 



cJ. Witiffs, upperside. Forewing : discal bars R^ — SM* brownish black, 



luniform, bars SC'' — R^ very heavy, fused with one another and with the postdisco- 

 submarginal band, also prolonged basad along veins towards median bars SC^ — R^ 

 which are sometimes reached ; postdiscal, tawny, halfmoou-shaped interspaces 

 R' — M- about half the breadth (or less) of the respective postdisco-submarginal 

 patches, interspaces R' — R^ much smaller, sometimes vestigial, interspace SC — R' 

 vestigial, or filled up with black, interspace SC^ — SC^ very seldom vestigial : edge 



of wing as in marmax. Hindwing : postdisco-submarginal black spots C — R' 



fused together, sometimes extended to edge of wing, the vein between them very 

 rarely tawny ; the white submarginal spots as in marmax, but the first on the whole 

 larger and the last of the npper ones to disappear (while iu marmax the second is 

 the last to disappear). 



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