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spots variable in size and unmber. Hindwing : postdisco-submarginal black 



patches separated, except npper two, or more or less contignons ; discal interspaces 

 C — R^ very restricted white or whitish ochraceons at enter side of median bars, the 

 whitish scaling not extended to the black postdisco-submarginal patches, not even 



in the examples with the band of the forewing nearly pure white. Underside : 



discal arched bars better marked than in S, but more tawny than in Indian ? ?, 

 basal to submedian bars sometimes partly obsolete; white submarginal scaling very 

 variable in extent ; postdiscal patches small, tawny, not black. 



Length of forewing : cf , 38 — 42 mm. 

 „ „ ? , 48 — 53 mm. 



Ilab. China, rare : known from Hong-Kong, Mnpin, Omei-shan (W. China). 

 In the Tring Museum 2 d d and 1 ? from between Shanghai and Kiukiang, of the 

 banded form, all three with the bars in the basal half of the hindwing below more 

 or less obsolete ; 3 c? c? of the not-banded form labelled " China " and Hong-Kong. 



12. Charaxes psaphon. 



Clwi raxes psaphon Westwood, Cab. Or. Ent. t. 21. f. 1, 2 (1848) (Ceylon). 



i ? . Body abore olivaceous tawny ochraceons. 



(J. Wings, iipperside, tawny orange colour. Forewing : cell-bar 3 generall)' 



vestigial ; bar D heavy, but occasionally abbreviated behind ; median bars very 

 seldom vestigial (but shining through from underside in certain lights) ; disco- 

 marginal black area very wide, measuring at least 20 mm. in front and 9 to 

 10 mm. before SM', its edge irregular, the black colour extending basad especially 

 behind R^ and M', but taken as a whole almost gradually narrowing behind ; 



tawny marginal line sometimes vestigial between veins. Hindwing : median 



bars C — R' always more or less clearly marked, sometimes also bar R' — R-, 

 tawny colour at outer side of these bars occasionally rather pale ; postdisco-sub- 

 marginal black patches C — R- or C— R' so far extended basad as to cover the place 

 where the discal bars would stand, if they were developed, hence forming a large 

 black patch, which becomes narrower behind, veins black near the patch, postdisco- 

 submarginal spots R- — SftP or R^ — SM- more or less isolated, but often not clearly 

 defined owing to the tawny ground-colour near the postdisco-submarginal spots 

 being generally much shaded with cinnamon ; white submarginal dots mostly 

 absent, dot C — SC^ often well-marked, the two anal ones always present ; anal 

 admarginal interspace olive yellow. 



Underside somewhat variable in general tint ; admarginal interspaces of 

 hindwing and sometimes also those of forewing wax -yellow ; basal two-thirds of cell 

 of forewing, submedian interspaces of hindwing and proximal portions of discal ones 



of both wings mostly buff colour. Forewing : median bars R^ — SM^ almost 



continuous ; postdiscal black blotches obvious, submarginal black or brown bars 

 sharply limiting the glossy white scaling at their jiroximal side ; median bar 

 R' — R^ closer to cell than to discal bar R" — Rl Hindwing : postdiscal inter- 

 spaces sometimes with a greenish tint, admarginal line well defined ; tail 2i to 

 6J mm. long. 



?. Wings above often much darker in basal half than in 6. Forewing: 



cell-bar 3 sometimes rather well marked, also bar 4 occasionally vestigial, upper 

 angle of cell with black scaling, seldom with a white spot ; bar D very heavy, 

 median bar R^— R' fused with it, or absent, median bars R'— (SM") often very 



