272 NYMPIIALID.E, NYMPHALIN^. CIIARAXE9. 



564. Oharazes delphia, Doubkday. 



C. delphis, Doubleday, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, second series, vol. i, p. 217, pi. vii (1843) ; id., Butler, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 63s, n. 50; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 105, n. 3, pi. xv, fig. i-,male (1883); 

 C. concha, VoUenhoven, Tijd. Ent., vol. iv, p. 162, n. 5, pi. x, figa. i, 3 (1861). 



Habitat : Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, Upper Tenasserim, Malacca, Perak, Sumatra, Borneo. 



Expanse : 3-5 to 40 inches. 



Description: "Male and female. Upperside, both zuings pale stramineous. Fore- 

 wing with the costal area slightly infuscated ; a small black streak on upper portion of disco- 

 cellular nervules, and the wliole apical third black [something bearing one or two small spots of 

 llie ground-colour in the subcostal and upper discoidal interspaces] ; the inner margin of this 

 black area is much waved, and commencing atcosta near end of cell really and narrowly terminates 

 at apex of first median nervule, but is apparently continued by two elongated spots, which do 

 not pass the submedian nervure, and do not quite reach the outer margin. Hitidwing with a 

 submarginal series of greenish lunulate spots placed between the nervules, continued as streaks 

 to the apices of nervules, especially prominent and distinct along the three median nervules. 

 (Some markings of the underside show more or less distinctly near the posterior angle of the 

 forewing, and on the disc of the hindwing.) Underside pale silvery white. Forewing with the 

 apical third somewhat darker (reflecting the black area of the upperside) ; two small and 

 irregularly-shaped bluish-black spots in cell [these spots in the cell vary in number from two to 

 five] ; a lunulate blue spot with black margins at end of cell, outwardly followed by a contiguous 

 black streak [at base of lower discoidal interspace] ; a narrow black streak above and beneath 

 the upper discoidal nervule ; a rounded blue spot with blackish margins beneath cell 

 and between second and first median nervules, and an outer submarginal series of 

 lunulate bluish markings, outwardly followed by a series of ochraceous spots. Himhuing 

 with a blue spot with blackish margins on about middle of costal area [sometimes with 

 a similar spot in the interspace below], three curved blackish lines (diminishing in size) 

 in and near end of cell, a short linear mark of the same colour on each side of the first median 

 nervule, and two similar ones on abdominal margin, about one-third from anal angle ; a discal 

 series of bluish lunulate spots placed between the nervules, closely followed by a series of dark 

 ochraceous spots, and again by a much-waved pale ochraceous fascia ; a submarginal series of 

 bluish elongate and linear spots placed between the nervules, and a marginal corresponding 

 series of rather larger ochraceous spots ; caudate appendages streaked with bluisli. Body above 

 with the abdomen more or less concolourous with wings, the thorax and head infuscated ; 

 thorax beneath concolourous with wings, the legsiiiwW greyish. Anlenna; i\xsQO\xs." (Distant, 1. c.) 

 This is a rare as well as beautiful species. Mr. Wood-Mason obtained a single male in 

 Cachar in August, Captain C. T. Bingham obtained a male in the Donat range in January and 

 another in the Thoungyeen forests towards the end of the year, arid there are specimens in the 

 Indian Museum, Calcutta, from Sylhet, Moulmein and Perak. 



565. OharaseS dOlon, Westwood, (Plate XXII, Fig. 100 $). 



C. dolon, Westwood, Cab. Or. Ent., p. 55, pi. xxvii, figs. 2, 3 (1848) ; id., Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1865, p. 635, n. 49 ; Haridra dolon, id., Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist,, fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 306, 11. 52 (1885). 



Habitat : Kulu, Sikkim, near Assam. 



Expanse : 3*3 to 39 inches. 



Description: " Upperside, (5^//; tw;/^'^^ straw-white. /v/tzw«^ having the costa, aeon- 

 joined spot at the extremity of the discoidal cell, and a broad apical margin of black, the latter 

 bearing a single row of about eight white spots. Hindtving bicaudate, with a subapical 

 [submarginal] narrow fascia of brownish-black, in which are two rows of small whitish lunules ; 

 the tails bluish-grey, the inner one preceded by two blue-white spots. Underside, both 

 7t'///_j^ pearly-white ; the costa of the forewing (except at the tip) and two narrow fasciae common 

 to both wings, and more or less edged with black, as well as the apical [outer] margin, dull 

 fulvous ; the hindiuing with a submarginal row of black dots. Abdomen brown." 



