230 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
costal margin shorter ; cell imperfectly closed by a very slender thread; precostal 
curved towards the end; with a short tail from the upper median veinlet only. 
Body extremely robust ; antenne more slender ; palpi porrect, projected in front of 
the head; forelegs of the male longer than in typical Charaxes, femur slender, 
sparsely clothed with long fine hairs beneath, tibia thickened and hairy at the base, 
tarsus compact; forelegs of the female longer than in typical Charaxes, scaly, 
tarsus stouter. Sexes dimorphic. Type H. Psaphon. 
CaTERPILLAR.—Slug-shaped; with four vertical elongated spinous fleshy 
processes on the head, and two short naked depressed pointed processes on anal 
segment. 
Curysatis.—Thick, oval, abbreviated, dorsum well arched ; head obtuse. 
Hgg.—Unknown. 
HARIDRA PSAPHON (Plate 168, fig. 1, la, b,c, d ?). 
Charaxes Psaphon, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Ent. p. 48, pl. 21, fig. 1, 2, ¢ (1848). Butler, 
Proc, Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 636. de Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc. ii. p, 284 (1886). 
Nymphalis Psaphon, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 309 (1850). 
Haridra Psaphon, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 30, pl. 15, fig. 2, ¢ (1880). 
Haridra Serendiba, Moore, id. p. 80, pl. 15, fig. 3, 2 (1880). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half 
purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, its inner edge being erect and 
sinuous ; a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish 
discoidal streaks. Hindwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which 
sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; 
a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside 
fulvous-brown, washed with purplish-grey. Both wings crossed by three basal, and 
two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders. Forewing also with a submarginal 
fascia composed of more or less defined small blackish dentate inner spots and outer 
diffused pearly-white dentate lunules. Hindwing also with a submarginal darker 
blackish-grey lunular fascia, and outer series of small black-tipt pearly-white dentate 
spots. 
Female. Upperside deep fulvous-yellow. Forewing with a transverse medial 
discal purplish-white band, which shows, by semi-transparency, the discal sinuous 
line of the underside, and is edged inwardly by a broken black line which is more or 
less inwardly diffused anteriorly ; outer border of the wing broadly black, with its 
inner edge sinuous, and bearing a slight fulvous lunular posterior inner streak. 
Hindwing with a short medial discal purplish-white band edged inwardly by a slender 
black sinuous line ; submarginal black band broad, as in the male, but broken and 
macular posteriorly, and with a distinct white lunule on each portion between all the 
