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Umlersicle brown sepia colour, variegated witli bistre. Forewiug : median 



bars R- — SM- continnons, median interspace M- — SM* narrower than interspace 

 M' — M-, the darker median band hence narrowing behind, median bars SC° — R- 



somewhat nearer discal series than apex of cell. Hindwing : interspace between 



snbmedian and median lines of bars from costal margin to M resp. R^ narrower 

 than in borneensis, npper two median bars CM — SC" nearly contiuuons ; postdiscal 

 bars slightly arched, or almost straight, standing in a straight line ; upper tail 

 somewhat spatnlate, about 8 mm. long, second tail also widened towards apex, 

 curving costad, 6 mm. long. 



? . Wings above slightly paler. Forewing : a white band with a faint tawny 



olive tint, posteriorly strongly shaded with tawny olive, extends from SC" to 

 internal margin, the baud is widest in middle, anteriorly it reaches apex of cell, its 

 outer edge (taken as a whole) is convex, its inner edge ill-defined ; postdiscal spots 

 W — SM^ luniform, separated from discal band by black, tbin, discal Innules, post- 

 discal spots SC° — R- about 7 to 8 mm. distant from band ; no median bars SC — R-, 



nor any other median bars. Hindwing : median C — SC* extremely faint, discal 



bars C — R' ill-defined, partially separated from postdisco-snbmarginal patches by 

 two light patches ; scaling between these discal bars and the vestigial median 

 bars somewhat greyish, veins SC and R' especially pale ; postdisco-snbmarginal 

 purplish black patches C — R^ gradually decreasing in size, fused, the following 

 four sejiarated, with the postdiscal portions obsolete, the submarginal jiortions deep 

 black ; submarginal white spots linear, heavy ; admarginal interspaces C — R' 

 obsolete. 



Underside somewhat paler than in 3, the snbmedian and discal interspaces 

 partly creamy buff, but not white ; postdiscal and admarginal interspaces of hind- 

 wing greenish bistre ; bars nearly as in <?, upper three submediau and median bars 

 of hindwing continuous ; upper tail strongly spatulate, 9 mm. long, second almost 

 boot-sha]ied, carving costad, broadest in middle, about 7 mm. long. 

 Length of forewing : 6, 37 — 41 mm. 



„ „ ?, 50 mm. 



Hab. North, East, and South-East Mindanao. In the Tring Museum 2 S <S , 

 1 ¥ , collected by Dr. Platen (received from Messrs. Staudioger and Bang-Haas) ; 

 May, August to October, December to March, according to Semper. 



i". S , forewing above blue ; ? , white band of forewing interrupted at R^ 



17. Charaxes mars. 



jj Charaxes mars Staudinger, Exot. Tagf. p. 172 (1886) (Minabassa, N. Celebes). 



$ Charaxes mars, Oberthiir, Bull. Soc. Enl. France, p. 194. f. 12 (1897) (Maros country). 



cJ. Upperside of body olivaceous black, sides faintly fulvous, abdomen russet. 

 Underside of palpi and abdomen, and four posterior tibiae and tarsi pale drab or 

 wood brown, sterna brownish black. 



6  Wings above. Forewing : strongly glossy greenish blue, changing into 



bluish green in side light, costal and outer margins black with a slight greenish 



gloss. Hindwing also glossy blue, especially if viewed from behind, except base, 



abdominal fold, and costal margin ; the greater part of tlie winp- tawny orange, 

 cellules (' — R' nearly totally blaek, cell more or less shaded with black ; jiKstdisco- 



