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i'. c? diflferent from ? , basal half of wings being creamy olive bnff above in cJ, 

 olive tawny in ? . 



2. Charaxes nitebis (Nov. Zool. VII. t. 6. f. 6, ?, Celebes). 



<J. Nymphalis nitebis Hewitson, Eiot. Butt. II. Nymph, t. 2. f. 7. 8 (1859) (Celebes) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Dium. Lep. p. 272. n. 48 (1871) (Celebes). 

 g ?. Chnrnxes nitebis, Staudinger, Exot. Tugf. p. 17,^ (1886) (Celebes, Minahassa). 



$. Body above raw nmber colour, thora.x somewhat olivaceous green : under- 

 side creamy bnff, sides of sterna somewhat darker. 



Wings ahote black, basal half of forewing and basal two-thirds of hindwing 

 (abdominal fold excepted) covered with creamy scaling which appears creamy olive 

 buff where both upper and under layer are pale, as is the case from base of M^ of fore- 

 wing to near outer edge of pale area, and anteriorly on disc of hindwiug, while the 

 remainder of the pale area is greenish olive buff owing to the under layer of scales 



being black. Forewing : olive buff area reaching anteriorly just to upper angle 



of cell, but there is an olive creamy buff patch beyond apex of cell between R' and 

 R^ generally divided by the black median bar R'— R^ and separated from the area 

 only by the black bar D, outer edge of area sinuate between veins R^ and M-, less so 

 between M" and 8M-, obliijue, crossing M- about II mm. from edge of wing and 

 reaching internal margin to 8 mm. from posterior angle ; median bars R' — M' 

 sometimes marked, separating from the area a rather thin Innnle, bar M'— M^ 

 sometimes vestigial ; two discal and a series of postdiscal spots creamy olive buff : 

 discal spots between SC^ and R^ 2 to 4 mm. long, separated from each other, about 

 8 to 9 mm. from upper angle of cell ; postdiscal spots smaller, the series concave 

 from R- — M'', spot R' — R^ a little more proximal than the next, spot SO" — R' 

 sometimes vestigial, spots M''— SM^ not seldom absent, spot R^— R' 7 mm. from 



outer margin. Hindwing : olive buff area extending costad beyond SC^, here 



the median bar C — SC^ generally marked and the cellule C— S(J^ from base to 

 median bar black, but mostly an olive buff stripe along SC-, at outer side of the 

 bar the pale colour forms generally a triangular patch that reaches C and is 

 separated from the rest of the area only by the more or less obviously black vein 

 SC-, bar SC- — R' seldom marked ; abdominal region up to M and 31- raw umber 

 colour, middle and base of fold somewhat whitish ; black outer marginal area 

 widest in front, measuring at SC^ about 12 to 15 mm., the olive bnff scaling extends 

 distad along veins R^ — M- and reaches, at M' and M- often the ad marginal spots ; 

 submarginal white dots minute, the second the largest ; admarginal interspaces 

 occupied by greenish olive buff spots, which are widely separated from one another, 

 are externally straight or slightly convex, proximally triangularly dilated at ends, 

 and are often divided at the internervnlar folds into triangular spots ; last spots 

 more or less shaded with yellow ; bptween these spots and the white dots there are 

 the submarginal black dots, which are generally deeper black than the remainder 

 of the black outer area. 



Underside huffish wood-brown, discal interspaces creamy white at median bars, 

 outer marginal area down to discal, luniform, bars slightly washed with wax-yellow; 



bars in basal half somewhat olive, not deep black. Forewing : median bars 



R'— SM^ continuous or nearly so, bar R*— R^ closer to cell, bars SC — R^ about 

 midway between cell and discal series of bars ; the latter concave from R' — M', the 

 upper two more proximal than bar R' — R' ; discal interspaces R' — M' much wider 

 than the median interspaces ; postdiscal spots light chestnut with an olivaceous tint, 



