NYMPIIALID^. NYMPHAT.IN/E. CIIARAXES. 273 



" This species is closely allied to C. eudamippus, Doubleday, but differs in its smaller size, 

 the direction of the dark patch at the apex of the discoidal cell, the single row of white spots 

 in the broad dark apical [outer] margin, the dark costa of the forewing beneath, the single minute 

 black dot in the discoidal cell adjoining the costa, the more regular fascia at the extremity of 

 the discoidal cell, the want of the black oblique line in the anal area of the hindwing, and 

 in the brown abdomen, which is pure white in C. eudamippusP (Westiixiod, 1. c.) 



G. dolon appears to be even rarer than C. dclphis, as I know of its occurrence only in 

 Kulu (two specimens taken by Mr. A. Graham Young) and in Sikkim. Mr Butler records it 

 from " near Assam," 



The figure shows the upper and undersides of a male specimen in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, from Sikkim. 



566. OharaxeS eudamlppUS, Doubleday. 



C. eucLtinif>fus, Doubleday, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, second series, vol. i, p. 218, pi. viii (1843) ; id , Butler, 

 Proc, Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, p. 635, n. 47. 



Habitat : Sikkim, Assam, Naga Hills, Sylhet, Upper Tenasserim, Tavoy. 

 Expanse : 3"9 to 4*8 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside, 3^^ 7f/«^j straw-white, /ir^e////^ .with the costa and 

 upper half of the cell, the apex widely, and the outer margin decreasingly deep indigo-blue almost 

 black ; also a similarly coloured band at the end of the cell enclosing the disco-cellulars, extend- 

 ing on either side of the median nervure almost to the origin of the first median nervule, also 

 along the third median nervule posteriorly for about a third of its length ; with the black apical 

 portion of the wing enclosing a large spot of the ground-colour in the lower discoidal interspace 

 at the end of the cell ; the subcostal and upper discoidal interspaces each bears two rounded 

 spots, the lower discoidal and median interspaces one each, the upper of the three the smallest, 

 in the submedian interspace are a pair of joined lunules, the lower one being tinted with blue ; 

 the margin bears a series of seven or eight smaller spots, one in each interspace, except the 

 submedian which has two ; a blue-tinted spot at the anal angle. Hindwing with a submarginal 

 series of somewhat lunular spots of the colour of the ground, surrounded with black and 

 inwardly again with a pale blue band, the margin (except at the anal angle) narrowly 

 black, within which is a broader diffused band of pale blue ; the tails at the ends of the first 

 and third median nervules almost equal in length, narrow, long, and marked like the 

 margin. UNDERSIDE, both 'vings pearly-white, the outer margin with a well-defined 

 dull yellowish-green band ; a similarly-coloured submarginal band, in the forewing commencing 

 on the costa about midway between the apex and the cell, approaching the outer margin at the 

 anal angle, straight, outwardly defined with short black lines between the nervules, which 

 latter become somewhat lunular towards the anal angle ; with two black V-shaped marks in 

 the submedian interspace beyond ; on the hindwing evenly curved and bearing outwardly a 

 series of bluish lunules outwardly defined with black, between which and the outer margin are 

 a series of small round black spots one in each interspace, except the submedian which has 

 two; another similarly-coloured discal band, more or less margined with black 011 both sides, 

 commencing in the forewing at the subcostal nervure and enclosing the disco-cellulars, hardly 

 extending below the first median nervule, and throwing oflf a branch along the third median 

 nervule for about one-third of its length, this band on the hindwing commencing on the costa 

 about one-fourth of its length from the b.ise and curving evenly across the wing till it joins 

 the submarginal band in the middle of the submedian interspace. Fjrradng with two pro- 

 minent round black spots placed obliquely in the cell. Hindwing with a short oblique black 

 streak extending from the discal yellow band to the margin near the anal angle. The female 

 is larger than the male, but does not dififer in markings. 



6*. eudamif'piis is a common species at low elevations in Sikkim, and extends eastwards as 

 far as Sibsagar in Upper Assam. Captain C. T. Bingham obtained it in March in the 

 Thoungyeen Forests, Upper Tenasserim, it occurs also in Tavoy. 



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