274 NYMPIIALID.E. NYMPIIALIN/E CIIARAXES. 



C. vepeuthes. Smith, from Siam, is very closely allied to C. eudamippus. Its description 

 is appended.* 



567. Oharasss schreiberi, Godart. 



Nymphalis ichreiher, Godart, Enc. Mcth., vol. ix, Suppkment, p. 825 (1823) ; /'o/A/d jf/imiJfri, Hors- 

 fielcl, Cat. Lep. E. I. C, pi. vi, figs. 3, yi, female (1829) ; Nyniphalis schreiberi, Horsfield and Moore, Cat. Lep. 

 Mus. E. I. C, vol. i, p. 205, n. 418 (1857) ; Charaxcs sclneiberi, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiid., 1865, p. 633, 

 n. 43; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 104, n. 2, pi. xiii, fig. 2, male (1883). 



Habitat : Assam, South India, Malacca, Billiton, Java, Borneo. 



Expanse : 3-6 to 39 inches. 



Description : " Male. Upperside, both ithios dark fiiscous, the basal third somewhat 

 tinged with blnish, the disc crossed by a medial white fascia, commencing on the forewing 

 immediately beneath the third median nervule and terminating on the hindwing in a subacute 

 point near the third median nervule ; on the forewing this fascia is narrowly margined 

 [inwardly] with pale bluish from beneath the first median nervule, and from the same nervule is 

 outwardly very broadly and somewhat dentately margined wich the same colour ; on the hind- 

 wing the white fascia terminates in a pale bluish fascia which is inwardly straight and out- 

 wardly emarginate, and crosses the wing, terminating very narrowly at the anal angle. 

 Forrwing with a white spot placed between the discoidal nervules. Hindimng with a sub- 

 marginal series of small whitish spots placed between the nervules, two between the first 

 median nervule and submedian nervure, and a pale bluish narrow submarginal but broken 

 fascia commencing at about discoidal nervule, which becomes ochraceous at anal angle ; 

 abdominal margin pale greyish at base. Underside, both wings pale silvery white ; crossed 

 by a dull ochraceous fascia margined with blue ; on the forewing this fascia crosses the end 

 of the cell, where it is outwardly bifurcate and terminates, obtusely rounded a little 

 beneath the first median nervule ; on the hindwing the fascia commences at costa 

 and terminates a little beyond the first median nervule. Forciving with two dark bluish 

 spots in cell ; an irregularly shaped carmine spot beyond the medial fascia between the 

 lower discoidal and the second median nervules ; a submarginal series of somewhat lunulate 

 spots placed between the nervules, which are obsolete near apex, and suffused with black near 

 outer angle, the lower three being preceded by a lunulate dark line, and the outer margin 

 broadly infuscated. Hindiving with a broad submarginal pale fuscous fascia, on the inner 

 margin of which are a series of carmine lunulate spots, the upper three of which have a pale 

 area and are preceded by a continuous bluish line, and the lower and larger three are inwardly 

 margined with white and blue, the one at anal angle being preceded by a transverse dark 

 bluish streak, and a marginal ochraceous fascia, the borders of which are bluish. Body more 

 or less concolourous with wings ; posterior and intermediate femota much suffused with 

 blackish shadings ; tibiiv and tarsi ochraceous. Female. Resembling the male, but with the 

 medial white fascia to the wings above only faintly and slightly margined and followed by 

 pale blue, and the marginal fascia to the hiiubmno^ more ochraceous and continued to apex. 

 On the forewing there is an additional small white subapical spot placed above the upper dis- 

 coidal nervule." {Distant, 1. c.) 



• Cliaraxcs nepenthes, 'i>-a\\\h.,'&,w\.. Month. Mag., vol. xx, p. 58 (1883). Habitat: Siam. Expanse: 

 3 33 inches. Description : " Upperside straw colour. Foreiving with the costa and apical portion of the 

 wing as in C eudaviippus, Doubleday, dark brown, with a submarginal row of small spots, inside of which is 

 another row of larger spots, and two still larger sjxjts between the subcostal nervules, all straw colour. A 

 quadrangular dark brown spot at the end of the cell, the lower end of the spot, on the outside, extending down 

 the upper and middle disco-celUilar nervules. Hindming with a double row of submarginal black spots, the 

 outer row elongate, the inner row hastate, distinct from it, not joined as in C euJainippiis and C. dolon, two 

 tails bluish-erey, outer margin black. Underside silvery-white. Fore^uing with a fulvous band, irregularly 

 marked outside with black, extending from the costa beyond the middle to ne.ir the inner angle ; beyond which 

 is a row of indistinct dark marks, and a fulvous band on the outer margin ; two black spots within the cell ; 

 two black lines on the upper and middle disco-cellular nervules, the inner one sinuate, under which are two 

 black spots : near the costa, about halfway between the cell and the first fulvous band, are two more small 

 black spots. Hitidioing with the double row of submarginal spots as above, the inner row bordered inside with 

 a fulvous band, which, near the anal angle, joins an irregular fulvous band, extending down the wing along 

 the abdominal fold from the costa, near the base, to the anal angle, where it joins a marginal fulvous band 

 bordered with grey. On either side of the band down the wing are several black lines and spots, and two 

 transverse, black, elongate spots on the abdominal fold, a little above the anal angle." 



" Near to C. eudamipptis and C. dolon, but quite distinct." (//. Grose Smith, 1 c.) 



