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coDspicnons. seldom obsolete : a white discal band, slightly curved, reaching to 

 SM^ bat more or less extendedly shaded with orange-ochraceous in front of SM-, 

 outer edge of band sinuated between veins ; tawny postdiscal interspace M- — SM* 

 mostly marked, sometimes divided into two dots, sometimes there is another 

 postdiscal spot present before M* ; spots R'— R^ and R=— M' seldom vestigial; 

 outer edge of wing mostly black, but in some specimens somewhat tawny ; median 



bars SC= — R^ absent (but showing through from underside). Hiudwing : median 



bars C — R'' present, the wing at the outer side of these bars varying from pale 

 orange buff to white, postdisco-snbmarginal patches C — R' broader than the inter- 

 space between them and the median bars, the other patches smaller, diminishing in 

 size behind, the last four isolated, the white dots all present, but the third some- 

 times vestigial only : discal lunules R'— SM- marked as dark shadows between the 

 postdisco-snbmarginal patches and the discal lunules of the underside, which latter 

 shine through above ; admarginal line faintly marked ; anal admarginal interspace 

 olive-yellow. 



Underside : russet brown, seldom more or less dirty buff yellow with the 

 median interspaces russet brown ; discal interspaces of both wings varying from 

 pale buff yellow to cream colour, their distal portions (at discal lunules) more or 

 less extended russet brown ; submediau interspaces also partly cream colour or pale 

 buff yellow ; postdiscal interspaces pale buff yellow at discal jlnuules ; marginal 

 band-like area of forewing as sharply defined as in tS ; admarginal interspaces 

 of hindwing maize yellow, admarginal line sharply defined ; upper tail spatulate, 

 8 to 10 mm. long, second 4 mm. or less. 



Penis strongly denticulate, the teeth heavier and more densely set than in the 

 allied species. Penis-funnel comparatively short and broad. 

 Length of forewing : <?, 40 — 44 mm. 

 ?, 47— .52 mm. 

 Hab. Ceylon and South India. 



The specimens from South India are, in the opinion of some Lepidopterists, 

 specifically distinct from those obtained in Ceylon. But on examination of a series 

 of individuals from both countries we find that it is impossible to keep them apart 

 specifically. The characters by which Moore and others have thought to distinguish 

 the two " species " are so variable in the specimens of both countries that there is in 

 thejemale sex a complete gradation from one extreme to the other, while in the 

 male sex some Ceylonese specimens agree with typical South Indian ones and 

 certain South Indian examples exhibit typically Ceylonese characters. However, 

 the greater percentage of specimens from both countries are distinguishable, in the 

 female sex especially, and hence we keep them, with some reluctance, subspecifically 

 separate. 



n\ Ch. psaphon imna. 



Charaxes imna. Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. Land. p. 122. t. 4. f. 2 (1870J ("India"); Nic^v., Butt, of 

 India II. p. 285. n. 577 ( 188G) (Orissa ; Bombay ; Khandalla ; Wynaad ; Matheran ; Travancore ; 

 Beypoor) ; Aitk., Journ. Bombay N. H. Sot: I. p. 132. n. 24 (1886) (Matheran, Gh.lts, 

 XII. to XIII.) ; Hamps., Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LVII. 2. p. 355. n. 83 (1888) (Nilgiris, 3-4000 ft., 

 rare) ; Davids. & Aitk., Journ. Bonihai/ N. H. Soc. V. p. 278. n. 40. t. A. f. 4. ia. larva, chrys. 

 (1890) (life hist.) ; Betham, ibid. p. 285. n. 51 (1890) (Centr. Prov.) ; Ferg., ibid. VI. p. 440. 

 n. 82 (1891) (Travancore) ; Betham, ibid. VIII. p. 423. n. 16 (1893) (Matheran, IV. V.) ; 

 Davids., Bell, & Aitk., ibid. X. p. 258. n. 67 (North Canara). 



Charaxes hindia Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 99. n. 5. t. 37. f. 5 ? (1872) ("Darjeeling" loc. err.). 



