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SOME UNDESCRIBED LEPIUOPTEllA. 



|By Hon. WALTER KOTHSUHILD, Pu.U. 

 PAPILIONIDAE. 



;1. Papilio philoxenus melanurus Mibsp. uuv. 



(?. Agreeing in the shape of the hindwing with the bmad-tciileJ Indian 

 suinmer-form (if F. pliUoxciuot, namely P. ph. pliiloxeiiiis f. temp, damradd ; the 

 white jiatch 11' — R- much reduced, and on the upperside shaded over with bhick 

 scales like the half-moon li^ — R^ ; red spots R' — M- small, spots R' — M' being 

 farther away from margin than in f. temp, dasarada ; tail without a trace of a red 

 spot above and below. 



Uah. Mt. Wuchi, and AVuteryaug, Hainan, May luoa \ 'i i S . 



NYMPHALIDAE. 

 2. Charaxes uaudina. 



(J. Cliai-(i.res nandina Rothschild & Jord., Nov. Zool. viii. p. 403. u. 7. t. 9. f. •> (1001) (Kikuyu 

 Escarpment).' 



We described this insect from two i S collected on the Kikuyu Escarpment 

 by the late W. Doherty. Among the Lepidoptera collected by his assistants shortly 

 before his death, and sent later on to Tring, there were two more S S. Some time 

 ago we received a small collection of Lepidoptera from Nairobe, below the Kikuyu 

 Escarpment, through the kind intermediary of Dr. E. A. Heath, containing a fine S 

 and a ? of nandina. This ? is very close to that of C/iara.ves xiphares from the 

 Cape Colony, rendering it probable that nandina and xiphares are geographical 

 forms of the same species. So far no representative has been foimd in the inter- 

 vening countries. There are eight white postdiscal dots on the u]iperside of the 

 forewing, the sixth standing well separated from the white discal jjatch M' — M- ; 

 the white spots outside the ape.x of the cell are smaller than in xiphares, the buff 

 area of the hindwing is posteriorly reduced, being separated from the abdominal 

 fold by a broad black interspace. The area is, whitish behind, and externally 

 broadly shaded over with black between R- and M-. There are three small buff 

 discal dots C — R- outside the median urea. The underside is more olivaceous tlian 

 in xiphares ; the row of white postdiscal spots is more strongly angulate before R- 

 the discal band of the hindwing is more white, and is broader in front of R-', while 

 the discal luuules are less heavy. 



3. Charaxes hansali baringana snbsp. uov. 



6. Wings, upperside, basal areas deeper olive; discal band much narrower, 

 the postdiscal spots situated in costal area conse(]uently farther away from the 

 upper sjjots of the band than in h. hansali. 



