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51. Charaxes eudoxus (Nov. Zool, VI. t. 8. f. 3. S). 



Papilio Kques Achivus eiidojeui Drury, Illuxlr. Ex. Tns. III. p. 44 and Index, t. 33. f. 1. 4 (178"2)' 

 (S. Leone). 



<?. Body similar to tliiit of <lruccann». 



Wings above : basal area chestnut. Forewing : chestnut colour of base 



extending to vein M', shading into the blackish brown colour of the disc ; bar D 

 anteriorly partly free, but median and discal bars not or scarcely traceable ; a disco- 

 postdisoal band orange rufous, tapering costad, separated into spots e.xcept behind, 

 its distal edge about parallel to outer margin ; a series of admarginal spots of the 



same colour. Hindwing : blackish brown before cell ; abdominal fold greyish 



basally, pale orange rufous distally; discal baud orange rufous, deeper in tint behind 

 where it gradually shades off into the rnfons chestnut postcellular area, somewhat 

 constricted at SC", postdisco-submarginal band brownisli black, sometimes almost 

 separated into spots, pro.ximally convex, distally concave between veius ; admarginal 

 interspaces broad, 3 to 4 mm., halfmoon-shaped, either separated by the black veins, 

 or fused to a continuous band ; marginal line black ; fringe white between veins. 

 Underside : chestnut, from pale chestnut to tawny ochraceous in outer marginal 



region of forewing ; bars black, bordered with white. Forewing : cell-bar 2 



circular, 3 elongate, oblique, 4 transverse, thin, close to bar D ; submedian bar 

 M' — M'' heavy, just behind base of M', bar R' — M* present in angle of veins 

 R^ and M' ; submedian and median bars M' — SM^ fased together to a large 

 patch, median bars R' — M- more distal than in all the allied species (except 

 lactetinctiis), bar R' — M' being about 9 mm. distant from base of W, white edges 

 of these long bars comparatively thin, median bar R^ — R^ fused with bar D, bars 

 SC*— R^ partly obsolete, but their white borders fused to a nearly straight band ; 

 discal bars absent, but their white borders present as a double series of very thin 

 white lines from SC* to M',the last touching median bar, discal interspaces M^ — SM' 

 pale ochraceous, fused with the postdiscal interspaces ; postdiscal black bars repre- 

 sented by black spots, spots SC — M' rather small, the others larger and confluent, 

 all distally sinuate upon iuternervnlar fold, distally bordered with white, this scaling 

 forming M-shaped markings between R" and M', while between M" and SM" (where 

 it is bluish) it forms two or three dashes ; admarginal interspaces rather large, pale 



ochraceous behind, more tawny ochraceous anteriorly. -Hindwing : black bars all 



very thin as in driiceanus, the snbbasal black and white bars SC — (SM') continuous 

 with the submedian bars in front of SC and C, the latter two broad, their black 

 central lines in the southern subs]iecies absent, forming a jrarely white band which 

 stands close to PC at C ; cell-bar 4, bar D and median bar R-— R' placed as in 

 pollux, joined together at R^ ; black median bars partly absent ; white discal band 

 considerably narrower than in druceo.mat, including a series of tawny patches which 

 divide the white band into a proximal line, which represents the white borders of 

 the median bars, and a distal line, which represents the white borders of the discal 

 bars ; postdiscal bars C — R'^ as triangular si)ots, the others transverse, linear, thin, all 

 bordered with bluish white lines distally which, at veins SC' and R', form obvious 

 angle-shaped markings similar to those of C. pelias and allies ; submarginal bar,-? 

 thin, sometimes curved, edged white (or bluish white) proximally ; submarginal 

 intersjiaces dark cinnamon rufous, narrower than the admarginal ones, at least 

 interspaces R- — ]\P ; admarginal interspaces ochraceous, or tawny ochraceous, rather 



