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the base of the costal interspace. These silvery spots are sometimes ochreous, often entirely 

 wanting. The colour and marbling of the ground is also exceedingly variable. The female is 

 more uniformly coloured, and the silvery spots are never prominently developed. D. poUbete is a 

 common species at low elevations in Sikkim, and occurs also in Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Upper 

 Tenasserim (but not in peninsular India), in Ceylon, and the Andaman and Nicobar Isles. 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen from the Soutli Andaman 

 Isles in the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 



Dokschallia pratipa, Felder, is a closely-allied species, but differs from D. polihcte in the 

 male in having the fulvous band at the apex of the forewing on the upperside smaller and ending 

 at the lower discoidal nervule, and witli no fulvous spot beyond, the female has a broad pale 

 fulvous band outwardly bounded by the black apical border, and with a small black patch at 

 the end of the cell, not joined to the outer black border as in D. polibete. It has been recorded 

 from Upper Tenasserim and the Andaman Isles, but is apparently confined to the Malay 

 Peninsula and Java. A description of it is given below.* 



Genus 87.— OHARAXES, Ochsenheimer. (Plate XXII). 

 Charaxes, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur., vol. iv, p. i8 (i8i6);id., Felder, Neues Lep. ,p. 39, n. 92 (1861) ; id., 

 Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. d^z. Monograph; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 28(1881); id., 

 Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. loi (1883); Paphia (part), Fabricius, 111. M.-ig., vol. vi, p. 282,11. 17 (1807); 

 Eribcca, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 46 (1816) ; Eulepis, Dalman, in Billberg's Enum. Ins., p. 80 

 (1820) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 29 (i88i);/aj/«, Swainson, Zool. III., vol. ii, p. 90(1832-33); Nymphalis^ 

 Westwood (ucc Latreille), Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol. ii, p. 306 (1850); Haridra, Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, 

 p. 30 (1881). 



"Body, extremely robust ; ^/wrfz£//«^ generally with one or two tails [very variable in 

 length] ; underside of the wings beautifully ornamented with patches and markings of varied 

 colours. Female, scarcely differing in appearance from the male, but larger and sometimes witli 

 a paler oblique bar on the forewing. Head, moderately large, woolly, not tufted in front ; eyes, 

 very prominent, naked ; /rt///, large, porrected obliquely ; the tip elevated considerably above 

 the level of the top of the eyes, and extending in front of the head nearly as far as its length ; 

 rather apart at the base, but approximating at the tip ; thickly scaly ; the extremity of the second 

 joint above clothed with short erect hairs, resting upon the face in repose ; terminal joint some- 

 what naked, small and conical ; inside with the scales more hair-like ; atttiiiiur, rather short, 

 not half the length of the forewing, strong, straight ; terminated by a long, gradually-formed, 

 but not very robust, fusiform club, slightly attenuated at the extreme tip, where it is obliquely 



* Dolescliallia praiipa, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monatsch., vol. iv, p. 399, n. 20 (1S60) ; idem, id., Reise Novara, 

 Lep., vol. iii, p. 406, n. 610 (1866) ; id., Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 539, 

 n. I (1877) ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 88, n. i, pi. xi, tig. 8, male ; pi. ix, fig. 6, /t' /««/<.■ "(18^3; ; idem, id., 

 Ent. Month. Mag., vol. ,xxii, p. 41 (1885). Habitat : Perak, Province Wellesley, Malacca, Java. Excanse : 

 24 to 3"2 inches. Description :" Male. Uhpekside ferruginous-fulvous. Foreiumg with the discal patch 

 diffused, pale ochraceous-yellow, marked with a blackish-fuscous disco-cellular spot more or less curved, the 

 terminal border immediately beyond it blackish-fuscous, adorned with a whitisn subcostal dot and inwardly 

 below the lower discoidal vein an ochraceous spot, subconfluent with the patch. Hitidiuing with the two 

 subapical spots, one hinder punctiform spot, and two streaks before the m.irgin blackish-fuscous, with the anal 

 lobe inwardly irrorated with lilacine-hoHry. Underside as in D. bisaituie but darker, olivaceous-greyish, 

 shining with bronze, i^i^rcwzw^ with the discal striga more inwardly directed towards the costa. Hinciiviiig 

 with the powdery lilascent-hoary streak placed before the hinder margin much broader than in D. bisaltidc and 

 v. polibete'' 



" Jn both the specimens which we have before us, the apex of the forewing is less truncate, and the anal 

 process of the hindwing is longer than in D. biuUtide or D. polibete; Cramer." (Felder, 1. c. in Reise Novara). 

 This description is almost undoubtedly that of a female, to which it esactly applies, not of a male as stated by 

 Felder. The differences between both sexes cf D. polibete and D. pratipa are given in my note above. 



Mr. Distant describes the female as follows :—'• /•'(;rfTO/«^ with the apex not prominently falcate ; differs 

 from the male by having a large subapical yellowish patch, and by the fuscous oblique fascia being only denoted 

 by an irregular spot at end of cell. //m/iv/M^ with the marginal fascia only denoted by the marginal borders 

 as in male. Underside as in male, but paler, and with the white spots much more obscure." 



" This species varies much in the colour of the wings on the underside, and is a very close ally to the Javan 

 species, X). ^/ivi///'d'^, Cramer. From this it differs principally in the female sex, which in D. bisaltidc has the 

 pale subapical patch aud also the complete oblique subapical fuscous fascia. D. pratipa is clearly a local race 

 of Cramer's species." 



"X*. bisaltide is a somewhat rare species; male and female specimens are contained in the Horsfield 

 collection which .-igree with Cramer's figure. Several other specimens were confused, however, under the 

 same name, which on examination with Mr. Butler, proved to be both male and female /?. /£;///^t,/f, Cramer, a 

 species which is quite distinct ana not synonymous with D. bisaltidc, as stated in Mr. Kirby's Catalogue (p. 193). 

 D. polibete has both sexes very similar, and not distinct s,s'\n D. bisaltide aind D. pratipa; it is also a wide- 

 ranging species, as I possess specimens both from Java and the Andaman Islands.^ In all these species it 

 appears that the brightest white spots on the underside are developed in the male only," (Vistant, 1. c. m Rhop. 

 Malay.) 



