XYMPHALID.E.-XYMPHALIX.E. 



CHARAXES. III. 



Y.— CHARAXES EPIGENES. i Figs. 1,2; 9 Figs. 3, 4. 



Charaxes Ejiigenes, Godman and SalviB, " Annals and Magazine of Xatmal 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 210 (March, 1888). 



Exp. 3 J inches. 



Male. Upperside browuish-black, anterior wings marked with five small 

 yellow spots beyond the cell, and seven submarginal ones of the same colom. 

 Posterior wings immaculate, with the exception of seven small submarginal blue 

 hmules, that nearest the anal angle being double. 



"Underside reddish-brown, anterior wings with the apical portion and outer 

 margin paler, the spots of the upper side white, and those bej'ond the cell 

 margined on the inside with black, a black line at the end of the cell, and two 

 wliite ones crossing the cell ; the outer externally, and the inner internally, 

 l)ordered with black. Posterior wings with two white transverse lines, one passing 

 thi'ough the cell, externally bordered with black, the other beyond it, with an 

 internal black border. There are seven dark red discal spots, bordered on the 

 inside with lilac, and entirely surroimded with black ; and a series of sub- 

 marginal black spots, and the margin itself black, the former bordered with 

 bluish-white ; the median vein and its first branch are produced into short 

 tails. 



Female. Uppekside spotted as in the male, but with a broad milky-white 

 common band, extending from the second median branch of the anterior wings 

 nearly to the inner margin of the posterior wings, and broadly bordered with 

 bluish on the latter. 



Underside much paler than in the male, but the spots larger and better 

 defined, and the white common discal band much broader. 



Hab. Aola, Guadalcanar Island (C. M. Woodford). 



In the Collections of Messrs. Godman and Salvin, and Henley Grose Smith. 

 Ml-. Woodford's Collection contains a male and several females of this distinct species, 

 which has no near ally that we know of. ^O- S.J 



VOL. I., OCTOBEE, 1888. 



