NYMPHALINZ, (Group CHARAXINA.) Zo 
veins, the anal spot being also blue-speckled. Underside. Olivescent fulvous- 
brown, darkest basally and externally, and washed with purplish-grey ; transverse 
markings throughout, as in the male; the subbasal interspace being slightly, and the 
medial discal interspace distinctly fulvous-white or pale fulvous-yellow. Body 
entirely dark fulvous-red ; palpi blackish above, white beneath; pectus fulvous- 
white; legs above dark fulvous-red, whitish beneath; fore-tarsi fulvous-white ; 
antennz black; eyes dark red. 
Expanse, 3 31, ¢ 4 to 43 inches. 
Hasitat.—Ceylon. 
Distrisution.—Major Hutchison obtained males near Trincomali in August, 
fluttering over the ground on the edge of forest jungle. Capt. Wade took males and 
a female at Kandy, and a female in the forest at Kottawa. A female was taken by 
Mr. Skinner in March, 1875, at Arisvawalle. Major Yerbury took a female at sugar 
in October, at Kanthalla. 
HARIDRA IMNA (Plate 169, fig. 1, la, b,c, ¢ 9, et larva and pupa). 
Charaxes Imna, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 122, pl. 4, fig. 2, g ; de Nicéville, Butt. of 
India, ete. ii. p. 285 (1886). Hampson, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 355. Davidson and 
Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 1889, p. 278, pl. A, fig. 4, 4a, larva. 
Charaxes Hindia (female only), Butler, Lep. Exotica, p. 99, pl. 37, fig. 5, 9 (1872). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside of a somewhat paler fulvous-red than in the closely 
allied Psaphon. Forewing with the black marginal band slightly narrower, the dis- 
cocellular streak slightly defined. Hindwing with the black band comparatively 
narrower apically, and posteriorly broken up into two or three spots, in addition to 
the white-centred anal spots; the slender costal streak also further from the apical 
portion of the band. Underside paler fulvous-brown than in Psaphon; markings 
similar, but of a more generally uniform tint throughout; the sinuous transverse 
lines and fascize being much less defined. 
Female. Upperside similar to that of Psaphon, the fulvous colour somewhat 
paler. Forewing with the white band comparatively narrower, and its inner black 
edgings less sharply defined. Hindwing also similar, but the black macular band 
somewhat narrower. Underside similar, but paler, and the transverse sinuous 
markings less defined. 
Expanse, 3d 33, ° 4 to 44 inches. 
CarerPitiaR.—“ Slug-shaped, elongated ; head very broad, surmounted by two 
pairs of incurved rugose fleshy processes, the outer pair longest ; anal segment flat, 
square, ending in two points; last pair of legs almost aborted ; colour rich dark 
ereen, with a large dorsal semicircle of pinkish-white on the seventh segment, and a 
