( 319) 



Underside: tawny cinnamon rufons, sometimes approaching in tint the pre- 

 ceding subspecies; bars conspicuously edged with white ; white submarginal scaling 

 prominent on forewing ; postdiscal interspaces of the hindwing (outside the discal 

 Innules nearly as broad as in harpagon, discal and postdiscal bars SC^— R' being 

 about 5 mm. distant from each other, interspaces R'— SM^ gradually becoming 

 thinner, inter8])ace R' — M' about three times as wide as interspace M- — SM'; post- 

 discal bars black, heavy, standing in an almost straight line, upper cues more 

 obviously luniform than the others. 



?. Unknown ; most likely similar to S , with the discal interspaces of under- 

 side paler and the tail longer. 



Length of forewing : <J, 40 — 42 mm. 



Hab. Sumatra. In the Tring Museum, A, i S from the Bettak Mountains, 

 February, March, April, Ma^y, June, July (Dr. Martin); Gayoe Mountains, January, 

 May (Dr. Martin) ; Karo, January, September (Dr. Hagen). 



Herr Fruhstorfer maintained {I.e.) that the Sumatra examples oiharmodius were 

 absolutely identical with those from Java ; in this he was wrong. We did not find 

 it difficult to distinguish all the Sumatran individuals that we have seen from an 

 equally long series of Java examples by the black discal bar SC° — R' of the forewing 

 above being thinner than the tawny interstitial patch at its outer side. 



Martin's collectors found this insect only at higher elevations from Bekantschan 

 to the Central Plateau ; it is not very common (I.e.). 



c. Ch. harmodius harmodius. 



Charaxes harmodius Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. p. 445. n. 726 (1867) (Java) ; But]., Trans. Ent. 



Soc. Land. p. 121. n. 17 (1872) ; Fruhst., SHz.-Ber. Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. p. 12 (1895) (Java) ; id., 



Ent. Nwhr. XXIII. p. 236 (1897) (Java ; descr. of ? !) ; id., Bed. Ent. Zeitschr. XLI. p. 301 



(1897) (Java) ; id., Eut. Nachr. XXIV. p. 57 (1898) (pt. ; Java). 

 Charaxes sci/lax Butler (noii Felder, 1867), Journ. Linn. Soc. Lorul. XXV. p. 397. n. 137 (1896) 



(Java). 



(?. Resembles h. martimis, but differs as follows : 



Upperside. Forewing : median bar R' — R- faint, discal bar SC' — R' 



developed to a large black patch which is at least twice as wide as the tawny post- 

 discal spot at its distal side, discal bar SC"— SC" completely fused with postdisco- 

 submarginal patch, the black colour more protruding proximad than in the other 

 subspecies of harmodius, the interspace between median bar SO" — R' and black 

 disco-submarginal markings about one-half or one-third as wide as the interspace 

 between that bar and the cell, while in h. martinus the bar stands about midway 

 between cell and disco-submarginal jjatches, and in k. harpagon somewhat closer to 



cell than to discal Innules. Hindwing : median bar SO" — R' vestigial only, tawny 



or brown, not black. 



Under-side as in /(. martimis, but postdiscal interspaces of hindwing narrower, 

 the discal and postdiscal bars R^ — SM^ especially close together, upper postdiscal 

 bars in most specimens straight or almost so, seldom luniform. 



? . Similar to S. 



Upperside : discal interspaces of forewing more yellowish than basal area of 



wing, discal lunules R' — M' more blackish. Hindwing : discal interspace C — SC* 



whitish, interspace SC^ — R' pale buff-yellow. 



Underside : discal interspaces with bufi' patches at median bars ; postdiscal 

 black bars of hindwing heavier than in c? ; tail 7 mm. long, slightly spatnlate. 



