1- NYMPH Al-ir).!. NYMPHALIN.T:. CHARAXES. 



Posterior wings grc'fnish-}-cllo\v at the base, the nervures broadly black ; 

 crossed before the middle by a gi-eenish-yellow band, the lower end of which 

 terminates on the lowest median nervule ; the band is bordered on each side by 

 a rather broad black line, on each side of the band is a silvery-white space, 

 the inner space extending over the region of the abdominal fold ; beyond the 

 outer silvery space, which is widest on the costal margin, is a curved, dusky, 

 greenish-brown line, followed by a narrow silvery space, and by an ill-defined 

 band, tawny above, and below with three rufous crescents filled up w^ith black. 

 Outside this is a white band, and a greenish-yellow one bordered on both sides 

 by a black line, the outermost being on the hind margin. 



Female similar, but on the upper side the spots are larger, and the [)a]e 

 band on the posterior wings is narrower, and followed on the outer side ])v a 

 detached row of pale green spots. On the posterior wings, too, the submar- 

 ginal greenish-white band is broken into long spots, which are likewise continued 

 down the centre of the tails nearly to their extremity. There is also a distinct 

 inner series of long spots, the five uppermost of which are white, and the rest 

 (and also the lower part of the fifth) pale greenish. The undersurface scarcely 

 differs from that of the male. 



Hab. Guadalcanar (Woodford). 



The luiilo is iu the Collections of H. Grose Smith and Messrs. Godman and Salvin. and the 

 female in the Collection of the former. 



Allied to C. Jupiter, Butler {Lepidoptera Exotica, p. 14, pi. 5, figs. 6, 7 (1869), from Dorey 

 (New Guinea), but in P. Jupiter the spot at the end of the cell is nearlv double, and the row of 

 submarginal spots ceases before reaching the hinder angle ; and there is a tawnv stripe at the 

 anal angle of the posterior wings, which is wanting in C. Aitila. The undersurface of C. Jupiter 

 is of a more uniform greenish-yellow, the space in the cell and above it is tawnj instead of 

 white, as in C. Attila, and the white markings generally are less extended; the short black bar 

 which in G. Jupiter crosses the space between the lowest discoidal and upper median nervules 

 of the anterior wings before the white spot there, is absent in C. Aitila. 



IX.— CH.\RAXES GALAXTA. $ . Figs. 8. 4. 



Chara.res Gala.ria, Butler. " Proceedings of tlie Zoological Society of 

 London," 18C5, p. G8;J, pi. 37, fig. 2. 



Charawes Gracchus, Staudinger. ^IS. 



Exp. 3^ inches. 



Male. Upperside. Black, incisions white, the base broadly creamy-white, 

 with more or less of a greenish shade, especially towards the base of the anterior 

 wings, and on the posterior wings. Anterior wings with two jiairs of white spots 

 towards the costa. one pair near the end of the cell, and one ])air half-wav 



