NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE. 



Vol. VII. DECEMBER, 1900. No. 3. 



A MONOGRAPH OF CEABAXES AND THE ALLIED 

 PRIONOPTEROUS GENERA. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., and KARL JORDAN, Ph.D. 



(Contimied from Vol. VI. p. 286.') 



(Plates VI., VII., VIIL, XL, XII.) 



Genus CHARAXES. 



Pupilio Eques Achivus Linn^, Syst Nat. ed, XII. p. 748 (1767) (partim ; typus : P. E. A. helena) ; 

 Drury, lUusti: Exot. his. I. index (1770) ; Cramer, Pap. Exnl. I. p. 5 (1775) ; Fabr., Syst. Eiit. 

 p. 449 (1776) ; Goeze, Ent. Beytr. 111. 1. p. 50 (1779) ; Fabr., .Manl. Ins. II. p. 6 (1788) ; 

 Gmel., Sy.Ht. Nat. I. 5. p. 2-2.^4 (1790). 

 Pupilio Nymplialis Gemmatus, Goeze {non Linn^, 1758), I.e. p. 288 (1779). 

 Pupilio Nymphalis PhaU'ralus, Gmelin, I.e. p. 2312 (1790). 

 Pupilio Nymphalis, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 61 (1793). 

 Papilio, Douovan {non Linn^, 1758), Ins. of China t. 35 (1798). 



Nymphalis, Latreille {non Linn^, 1758). Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. XIV. p. 82 (1805) (typus : P. E. 

 A.jusM L.) ; Gddart, Enc. Meth. IX. p. 350 (1823) (partim) ; Doubl., Westw. & Hew., Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep. II. p. 306 (1850) ; Kirby, Cat. Dinrn. Lep. p. 267 (1871). 

 Paphia Fabricius {non Bolt., 1798), in Illig., Magaz. Ins. VI. p. 282 (1807) (partim ; typus: P. E. 



A.jason L.). 

 Charaxes Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. IV. p. 18 (1816) (typus: P. E. A.jason L.) ; Tbon, 

 Naturgesch. Schm. p. 72 (1837) ; Feld., Nova Act. Ac. Car. Nat. Cm: XXVIII. 3. p. 39 (1861) ; 

 Butl., Proc. Zool. Soe. Land. p. 622 (1865) (Monograph) ; Scliatz, Fum. d; Gait. Tagf. p. 175 

 (1888); Karsch, Berl. Ent. Zritsehr. XXXVIII. p. 173 {im^) {Palla = Chara.res ex err.) \ 

 Butl, Jonrn. Linn. Soe. Lonil. XXV. p. 348 (1896) (partim , Revision) ; Auiiv., Kongl. !iv. Vet. 

 Ale. HancU. XXXI. 5. p. 221 (1899) (partim ; Afric. spec). 

 Tigridia Hubner, Verz. Schmett. p. 40 (1816-27) (partim ; typus : P. N. Ph. acesUi L.). 

 Eriboea id., I.e. p. 47 (1816-27) (partim ; typus : P. E. A. brutus Cram.). 

 Coea id., I.e. p. 48 (1816-27) (partim ; typus : P. E. A. varanes Cram.). 

 Doxocapa id.. I.e. p. 49 (1816-27) (partim ; typus : P. N. Ph. erminea Cram.). 

 Pvlyura Billberg, Enum. Ins. p. 79 (1820) (partim ; typus : P. E. A.jason L.). 

 Satyrus, Godart {non Latreille, 1810), I.e. p. 477 (1823) (partim). 

 Apatura, Boisduval {non Fabricius, 1807), Ind. Meth. p. 14 (1829) (pjirtim). 

 Jasia Swaiuson, ZoiA. Illustr. II. 2. p. 90 (1831-32) (partim ; typus : P. E. A.jason L.). 

 Phyllophasis Blanchard, Hist. Nat. J?is. III. p. 447 (18iO) (partim ; typus: P. D. F. galanthia Cram.). 

 Philngnoma Doubleday, Westw. & Hew., I.e. p. 310 (1850) (partim ; typus: P. E. A. deeius Cram.). 

 Palla, Kirby {non Hubner, 1816-27), Cat. Diuni. Lep. p. 273 (1871) (partim). 

 Monura Mabille, Bull. Sac. Zool. Fr. I. p. 280 (1876) (typus : P. N. Ph. zingha Cram.). 

 Haridra Moore, Lep. of Ceylon I. p. 30 (1880) (typus ; Ch. psaphon Westw.) ; id., Lep. Ind. II. 



p. 229 (1895). 

 Charaxes {Haridra), Wood-Masou & Nicev., Jonrn. As. Soe. Beng. LV. 2. p. 363 (1886). 

 Palla {Charaxes), Scbaus & Clements, Sierra Lcune Lepid. p. 9 (1893). 



Differs from Eulepis in both sexes in the cell of the hiudwing being open. 

 The egg of Ch. Jasoti became known and was described and figured ut the end 

 of the eighteenth century. No other Charaxes eggs were compared till Doherty 



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