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some way, and from which a juice exuded. Several other kinds of insects, chiefly 

 ants and flies, were attracted by this juice, and a number of small green bee-eaters, 

 Merops viridis, the magpie robin, Copsychus salamis, and the king crow or arongo 

 shrike, Bnchanga atra, were attracted b}' the insects. The wiugs of several of the 

 Charaxes that I took had bits clipped out of them by the beaks of birds. Toddy 

 is also a good bait for butterflies, after it has fermented a little. I was induced 

 to try it f.fter seeing the attraction the sirris juice had, and I found it very 

 successful." 



Messrs. Davidson and Aitken describe the larva thus (Joiirn. Bombai/ y.H. 

 V. p. 278) : " Larva of the usual form, head very broad, outer pair of horns longest, 

 last segment flat, square, and ending in two points ; last pair of legs almost 

 aborted ; colour rich, dark green, with a large semicircle of pinkish-white in the 

 middle of the back and a yellow lateral line ; horns and sides of face rusty brown. 

 We reared three specimens of this on Aglaia roxburqliiuna, a very common tree 

 in Canara, belonging to the order MeliacesB. Among butterflies the length of the 

 larval life seems to be generally proportional to the robustness of the insect in its 

 perfect state ; and, as might be expected, C. imna is a Methuselah among butterflies. 

 One found on the 6th of October, then evidently a few days old, became a pupa 

 on the 25th of November. The butterfly emerged on the 9th of December. Like 

 most smooth caterpillars, this species eats its skin when cast, but not the head 

 case. When touched it appears to use its horns defensively, as does also 

 C. atkamas." 



h. Ch. psaphon psaphon. 



Charaxes psaphon Westwood, Cab. Or. Eiit. t. 21. f. 1. 2. J (1848) (Ceylon); Butl., Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Land. p. 636. n. 52 (1865) (Ceylon) ; Nicev., Butt, of Indw. II. p. 284. n. 576 (1886) 



(Ceylon); Butl, Jourii. Lhin. Soc. Loud. XXV. p. 390. n. 116 (1896) (Ceylon). 

 NijmphaUs psaphon, Doubleday, -Westw. & Hew., Gen. Diuni. Lep. II. p. 309. n. 36 (18.50) 



(Ceylon). 

 K ijmpJialh pohjxena var. e, C. pmphon, Kirby, Cat. Diurn. Lep. p. 272. sub n. 52 (1871) (Ceylon). 

 (J. Haridra psaphon, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon I. p. 30. t. 15. f. 2. (J (1880) (Ceylon) ; id., Lep. Lid, 



11. p. 230. t. 168. f. 1. la. 16. If. (J, ? (1896) (Ceylon). 

 ? . Haridra screndiba Moore, Lep. of Ceylon I. p. 30. t. 15. f. 3. ? (1880) (Ceylon). 



(?. Black area of forewing barely 3 mm. distant from bar D, measured behind 

 R' ; black area of hindwiug produced basad along SC" to near median bars, the 

 area almost gradually narrowing behind, or suddenly restricted at R^, seldom 

 restricted in width behind R' as in t)'pical imna. 



? . Upperside more brownish tawny than in imna ; discal band of forewing 

 pure milky white down to (SM'), very slightly shaded with orange-ochraceous 

 between (SM') and SM* ; discal band of hindwing mostly a little broader and more 

 white than in imna ; postdisco-submarginal patches R' — R' generally somewhat 

 larger than in ordinary specimens of imna. 



Hub. Ceylon. 8 (?c?, 3 ? ? in the Tring Museum. Moore, in Lep. Ind., 

 records it from Arisvawalle (March), Trincomali (August), Kandy, Kanthalla 

 (October). 



13. Charaxes borneensis. 



Charaxes borneensis Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 16. t. 6. f. 2 (1869) (J only, Borneo) ; Druce, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Land. p. 346 (1873) (Borneo) ; Dist., Rhop,. Mai. p. 433. n. 10. t. 37. f. 6. ^ (1886) 

 (Mai. Pen.) ; Hagen, Iris. IX. p. 187. n. 247 (1896) (N.E. Sumatra) ; Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Lond. XXV. p. 394. n. 128 (1896) (Borneo). 



