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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
Chrysalis.—Slender. Wing-cases somewhat dilated and angular; anterior 
dorsum and thorax angular; head with two small points. 
Hgg.—* Radiate, small, hard, nearly as high as wide, with radiating lines of 
erectile bristles’? (Doherty). 
Group I. CHARAXINA. 
Apaturides (part), Boisduval, Ind. Méth. ii. p. 24 (1840). Kirby, Hur. Butt. p. 44 (1862). 
Nymphalide (part), Duponchel, Catal. Méth. Lep. Eur. p. 8 (1844). 
Nymphalina (part), Herrich-Schiaffer, Prod, Syst. Lep. p. 17 (1864). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 83, 
(1882). 
Apature (part), Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 49 (1869). 
Apaturide (part), Lang, Rhop. Eur. p. 153 (1884). 
Charaxide, Doherty, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 109. 
CHARACTERS OF THE Group CHARAXINA. 
Imaco.—Very robust. Thorax very stout. Forewings triangular, short, broad ; 
apex produced to an obtuse or somewhat acuminate point; first and second 
subcostal branches emitted before end of the cell, except in Heleyra, in which the 
second branch is emitted beyond the cell; the cell closed in all except Helcyra. 
Hindwings short, exterior margin scalloped, with a long narrow, or short, pointed 
tail at end of the upper and lower median veinlets ; cell imperfectly closed by a very 
fine slender thread, except in Hulepis and Helcyra, in which it is entirely open. 
Forelegs of male short, slender, clothed with appressed short hairy scales ; 
fore tarsus almost smooth, femur and tibia finely hairy beneath. Fore tarsus of 
female smooth, thickened beneath apically, each joint with two short spines beneath. 
Antenne thick, with a lengthened club, except in Helcyra, in which it is slender 
and with a short spatular club. Hyes naked. 
CaTERPILLAR.—Slug-shaped, with four lengthened fleshy processes on the head, 
and two short processes on the anal segment. 
Curysatis.—Short, thick, almost oval, smooth, dorsum much arched; head 
more or less obtusely pointed. 
Eoc.— Large, globular, hard; not so high as broad; with obscure ribs and 
cross lines at the base only, forming tetragons, with minute projecting points at 
their intersections ’’ (Doherty). 
Hasits of tHe Imaco.—Mr. KE. H. Aitken remarks, ‘‘ Last December Mr. J. 
Davidson and I spent part of two days at Matheran in trying to capture two 
specimens, or rather, I should say, one specimen, of C. Imna, for when we got 
them we found that only half of each remained. I have since found that it is 
by no means uncommon on the Ghits from December to March, at least; but 
it does not put itself in the way of beimg converted into cabinet specimens. 
