104 lUIOPALOCEBA MALAYAN A. 



This is a so-called " variety," or more correctly tlesiguated " local race," of C.fahius, Fabr., 

 a species foimd iu Continental India and Ceylon. Several other of these closely allied forms 

 or "local races" have been described,* and although the exigencies of cabinet arrangement 

 and systematic nomenclature may require that these forms should be capable of reference under 

 distinct names, it is surely disguising a certain fact in Nature if we do not admit that they 

 must have had a common progenitor, and that their fixity in local races or species is due to 

 dispersion and isolation. (When we use these two words a difiereuce of the surrounding 

 conditions is naturally postulated.) Of course other local and somewhat intermediate races 

 mav have failed to sufficiently estabhsh themselves, and have early succumbed to unfavourable 

 conditions. As Blumenhaeh observed, "Every paving-stone in Gottingen is a proof that 

 species, or rather whole genera, of creatures must have disappeared." f 



•2. Charaxes schreiberi. (Tab. XIII., fig. 2 ^ .) 



.\i/iii/>liu/U .Srlii-i'iii'r, Gudart, Euc. Meth. ix. Suppl. p. 825 (1823). 



l'<ijihiii Schmhn-s, Horsf. Cat. Lep. E. I. C. t. 0, f. 3, 3" (1829). 



X,)mi.luili!i Schmheri, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 205, n. 418 (1857). 



Chani.i-es Schreilwri, Druce, Proc. Zool. See. 1873, p. 340, n. 2; Sufllen, Tijd. Ent. xix. p. 147, u. 20 (1876) ; 



Butl. Trans. Liuii. lioc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 539, n. 3 (l877j ; Godm. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 



p. U40, 11. 22. 



i\Iale. Wings above dark fuscous, the basal tbird somewbat tinged with bluish ; disk of both wings 

 crossed, by a central discal white fascia, commencing on anterior wings immediately beneath first median 

 nervule and terminating on posterior wings in a subacute point near the first median nervule ; on anterior 

 wings this fascia is narrowly margined with pale bluish from beneath the third median nervule, and from 

 the same nervule is outwardly very broadly and somewhat dentately margined with the same colour; 

 on posterior wings the white fascia terminates in a pale bluish fascia which is inwardly straight and 

 outwardly emarginate, and crosses the wing, terminating very narrowly at anal angle ; anterior wings with 

 a wlute spot placed between the discoidal nervules, and posterior wings with a submarginal series of small 

 whitish spots placed between the nervules, two between the third median nervule and submedian nervure, 

 and a pale bluish narrow submarginal but broken fascia commencing at about discoidal nervule, which 

 become ochraceous at aual angle ; abdominal margin pale greyish at base. Wings beneath pale silvery 

 white ; both wings crossed by a dull ochraceous fascia margined with blue ; on anterior wings this fascia 

 crosses the end of coll, where it is outwardly bifurcate and terminates, obtusely rounded a httle beneath 

 the third median nervule ; on posterior wings the fascia commences at costa and terminates a little beyond 

 third median nervule ; anterior wings with two dark bluish spots in cell ; an irregularly shaped carmine 

 spot beyond the central fascia between the lower discoidal and the second median nervules ; a submarginal 

 series of somewhat lunulate spots placed between the nervules, which are obsolete near apex, and suffused 

 with black near outer angle, the lower three being preceded by a lunulate dark line, and the outer margin 

 broadly infuscated ; posterior wings with a broad submarginal pale fuscous fascia, on the inner margin of 

 which are a series of carmine lunulate spots, the upper three of which have a pale area and are preceded by 

 a continuous bluish line, and the lower and larger three are inwardly margined with white and blue, the 

 one at anal angle being preceded by a transverse dark bluish streak, and a marginal ochraceous fascia, the 

 borders of which are bluish. Body more or less coucolorous with wings; posterior and intermediate 

 femora much suffused with blackish shadings ; tibire and tarsi ochraceous. 



* One from Celebes aud two from uukuowu localities. 

 t 'Anthropological Treatises,' Eugl. trausl. p. 283 (ISliO). 



