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between M and SM^ and occasionally joined to each other by a longitndinal line : 

 discal bars regularly arched, bar SC-— R' the most proximal of the series ; post- 

 discal Innnles broader, ill-defined, often much less arched, sometimes nearly straight, 

 especially the posterior ones, the discal and postdiscal series meeting at SIVP, the 

 series being farther apart in front ; a row of black snbmarginal dots, about midway 

 between edge of wing and postdiscal Innnles, more or less shaded proximally with 

 metallic bine scales ; at their proximal side, often joined to them, stand white dots ; 

 postdiscal and admarginal interspaces not glossy. 



Body above of the colour of the base of the wings ; underside paler, middle of 

 sterna buff or whitish ; palpi above (free portions) black, underside bnff or white. 



In this group we find the commonest Charaxes of the Indo-Malayau fauna ; 

 the range of the group extends from Ceylon, N.W. India and China to the Bismarck 

 Archipelago. 



The Indian and Malayan species are, in the male sex, very fond of moisture : 

 they assemble on wet places of roads, sometimes in great numbers. 



a}. Discal bars of hindwing below all regularly arched, and the series of 

 postdiscal bars convex in middle, nearly parallel to outer margin. 



3. Charaxes latona (Nov. Zool. VII. t. 11. f. 5, ?). 



Charaxes latona Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Land. p. 631. n. 37. t. 37. f. 1, ? (1805) (" Timor" loc. err.). 



c? ? . Bodi) above tawny orange, rather darker in front than behind ; below 

 more tawny at sides, but paler in middle ; middle or sterna and tip of anterior tarsi 

 pale buff ; femora buffish white, speckled with black scales ; underside of palpi 

 whitish buff, paler than middle of prosternum. 



cJ. Winqs above slightly paler than thorax, both with a broad black border, or 

 the discal luniform markings of the forewing and the postdisco-submarginal patches 

 of the hindwing isolated, with intergradations. 



Undenide deeper fulvous than the upperside, less orange, sometimes partly 



slate-colour, the bars well defined. Forewing : row of median bars R-— SM» 



oblique, hence discal interspace R^— SM- narrower behind than at R=, bar R^— M' just 

 behind bar R^-R', or very little more proximal, bars M^— SM^ resembling in shape 

 the number 3, seldom less pointed at (SM^) ; median bars SC— R' continuous, 

 formino' an angle upon R' and reaching R- midway between median and discal bars 

 R2_R3; discal bars fulvous brown or black, well defined, deeply and regularly 

 arched, continuous, prolonged distad upon the veins ; the postdisco-submarginal 

 patches seldom distinct, the paler scaling within them developed costally to some 



silvery white patches. Hindwing : median bar R'— M\ 1 or 2 mm. beyond origin 



of M', bar M'— M" exactly behind it or very little more proximal or distal, bar R^— 

 R' just in front of it, seldom more proximal ; discal bars strongly arched, con- 

 spicuous, the series curving distad in middle, hence more parallel to outer edge of 

 wing than in the other fulvous Charaxes ; black and blue snbmarginal dots convex 

 outwardly, admarginal fulvous brown bars arched, hence the paler admarginal 

 interspaces, at the outcrside of those dots, much narrowed midway between the 

 veins, being here not wider than, scarcely as wide as, the black dots ; upper tail 

 variable in length, triangular, second a mere tooth. 



? . Larger than cJ ; wings broader, paler, but basal region often darker ; upper 

 tail longer, but sometimes very short, triangular or of nearly even width, not 

 spatulate, second tail always very much shorter than the first. Wings, upijerside : 



