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mediau bars aud outer margin of wing, being like tlie other median bars much more 

 j)roximal than in nuirmax and allies. 



? . Wings, upperside. Forewing : black discal bars R'— SM-' more or less 



thin, arched, joined at veins to the black postdisco-marginal band ; postdiscal inter- 

 space R' — R- a third the way between outer margin and median bar R' — R-, more 

 distal than spot R- — R^, generally smaller than the black discal patch standing at 

 its proximal side, but occasionally larger, buffish or white like the other postdiscal 

 interstitial spots and the discal band, discal bars SC — R- very much heavier than 

 bars R' — SM-, mostly merged together with the black outer area excejrt for post- 

 discal interstitial spots SC^ — R- or SC — R*. 



Underside : discal bars SC* — R' of furewiug very much nearer the median bars 

 than outer margin. 



Length of forewing : cj, 32 — 48 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 43 — 58 mm. 



The denticnlation of the penis is individually variable ; in the more robust 

 specimens the teeth are generally heavier than in the smaller specimens and more 

 numerous before the apex standing here mostly in two irregular rows. 



llab. From N.W. India to China, Palawan and .Java. 



The Ckaraxes figured by Cramer, I.e., from Cinua, is doubtless & female of this 

 species with the tails broken off ; aud Fabricius's bernardus is also this species, as 

 the description and Donavan's figure prove. Moore, in Lep. Ind. 11. p. 246, refers 

 the name of bernardus to a white-banded Chinese species, but in that he is surelv 

 wrong, as Fabricius describes the forewing as having a yellow band. The name of 

 bernardus was published eighteen years aXt&v polyxena. 



The males of all the forms of Ck. polyxena are very partial to decaying fruits, 

 dung, and assemble often in great numbers on damp places of roads in and near the 

 forest. The females do not share the habit, aud are consequently much less often 

 caught. The sap of trees is a great attraction for the cJ cf ; they come also to 

 sugar, which can be used as bait. 



a. Ch. polyxena bajula. 



(J ? . Ckaraxes bui/a Moore var. ? bajula Staudinger, Iris 11. p. 86 (1889) (Palawan). 

 Haridra bajula, Moore Lep. Ind. II. p. 248 (1895) (Palawan). 



Churaxes corax dwarfed form = batjula, Staud. in litt. (sic !) Batler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Land. XXV. 

 p. 391. sub n. 120 (1896) (Palawan). 



S. Wings above, basi-discal area rather brighter orange than in repetitus aud 



baya, uniform in colour. Forewing : median bars SC*-" — R'' absent or slightly 



vestigial, bars R- — M- marked, or just traceable ; black outer area only 9 to 11 mm. 

 wide between R' and R-, somewhat produced basad behind R- and before SC ; discal 

 bar M-— SIP vestigial, tawny, tlie tawny orange patch separated by it from the 

 basi-discal area 2 mm. broad, bar M' — M- tawny or black, in the latter case merged 

 together with the black area, but there remains generally a small tawny orange 

 spot at its distal side. Hindwing : postdisco-submarginal patches C — R^ con- 

 tiguous, their postdiscal (proximal) portions developed, patches C — R' together 

 convex proximally, their edge well defined, uot produced iiroximad at veins, white 

 dots in centre of patches R' — M', dots C — R' much larger than the others. 



Underside apparently less variable, rather paler ferruginous tawny than in the 

 allied forms ; discal bars of both wings less arched, white borders of bars feeble. 



? . Wings above, basal area pale orauge bufl', paler than in the other subspecies 



