aSo NYiMPHALID/E. NYMPIIALIN^. CHARAXES. 



The first species has the tails of the hinclwing as long as those in tlie preceding group, 

 the wings are black and bear across the disc a narrow band of spots, these spots are yellow 

 and distinctly separated on the forewing ; in all the foregoing species the band is continuous, 

 all the spots coalescing. Mr. Moore's diagnosis of the genus Charaxes as restricted by him is 

 appended for reference. * 



570. CharazeS faTjiUS, Fabricius. 



PapUio fnUus, Fabridus, Sp. Ins., vol. ii, p. 12, n. 47 (1781) ; idem, id.. Mant. Ins., toI. ii, p. 7, n. 5a 

 (1787); idem, id , Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 64, n. 201 (1793) ; Nymphalis fabius, Godart, Enc. M^th., 

 vol. ix, p. 353, n. 8 (1823) ; Charaxes fabiiis, Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 52, n 10 (1S69) ; id., Moore, 

 Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 29, pi. xv, fig. i (1881) ; Paphia fabia, Gr.-iy, Lep. In-. Nepal, pi. xii, fig. 3, larva (1846) ; 

 Papilio solon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 69, n 216 (1793I ; P. euphanes, Esper, .'Vusl. Schmett., 

 pi, lii, fig. I (1785-90). 



Habitat : Himalayas, Oudh, Eastern and Southern India, Ceylon, Burma, Nicobar 

 Isles (^Godart). 



Expanse : 27 to 38 inches. 



Description : " Male and female. Upperside, both wings blackish olive-brown, 

 Forewing with two subbasal small yellow spots [placed one above (touching) the third median 

 nervule a little beyond the end of the cell, the other towards the middle of the subcostal 

 interspace], and a transverse discal recurved series of seven or eight spots, the three lowest 

 widest, a marginal row of minute spots. /('?/;rt'wwo with a transverse medial irregular yellow 

 band, a submarginal row of small lunules, and a marginal row of small geminate spots, those 

 at anal angle greenish. Underside, bolh wings lilac-grey, dullest at base and purple-tinted 

 externally ; with white discal markings as on upperside, bordered with a black inner line, 

 and basal irregular black streaks. Forewing with a submarginal row of black-bordered 

 ochreous-yellow spots, and a marginal row of indistinct purple-white spaces. Hind-Ming 

 with a discal irregular row of black-bordered yellow lunules, each surmounted by an inner 

 purple-white and a black lunule ; a marginal row of ochreous-yellow lunules, each sur- 

 mounted by an indented black line bordered above and beneath with purple-white." 

 (^Mooie, 1. c.) 



C. fabius has a wide range, it occurs at Fyzabad and Lucknow in Oudh, Lieutenant- 

 Colonel C. H. T. Marshall has taken it at Chumba in March, Mr. A. Graham Young in 

 Mundi in July and September, it occurs in Sikkim and east^vards through Assam and Cachar, 

 and has been taken again in the Lower Thoungyeen forests in May, and the Meplay valley, 

 Upper Tenasserim, in October ; it is common in Calcutta, and I have frequently taken it 

 drinking the juice of the date palms when cut for the extraction of toddy. Mr. W. C. Taylor 



and margined with blackish, containing a medial series of blackish spots with whitish centres, placed between the 

 nervules — that at anal angle duplex — and with a narrow submarginal bl.ickish line. Underside brownish-grey. 

 Fornving with the cell containinjc a small black b isal spot, and medially crossed by a darker spot margined with 

 blackish, an irregular darker fascia margined with bl.ickish crossing wing at end of cell, where it is widest ; 

 beyond the fascia the ground-colour is paler, the whitish spots above are more or less distinctly visible beneath, 

 a waved dark line separating the two discal series. HinJiuin^ with two irregular darker fasciae margined 

 with blackish, one at base, the other crossing disc and terminating on abdominal margin ; the outer white 

 fascia and spots above faintly visible beneath, its margin denoted by two waved or lunulated lines, the innermost 

 bluish, the outer fuscous with the intervening ground-colour ochraceous. Body above and beneath and iegs more 

 or less concolourous with wings." 



'• This beautiful and exceedingly distinct species seems to find its nearest ally in the Amboinese C eiiryalus, 

 Cramer, and belongs to that division of the genus in which the caudate prolongation to the hindwing, at the 

 apex of the first median nervule, is obsolete, wliilst that at the apex of the third median nervule is short but 

 distinct." (Distant, 1 c.) 



*Genus Charaxes (restricted). " Forewing, triangular ; costa arched ; af>ex narrow ; outer inar^in oblique, 

 uneven, concave in the middle ; inner margin straight ; first and second subcostal ucrvules emitted before end 

 of the cell, third immediately beyond the end and extending to the apex, fourth and fifth at one-third beyond ; 

 jniddle disco-cellular nervule short, angled ; lower disco-cellular slender and curved ; discoidal nervules from 

 angles of the middle disco-cellular ; viedian nervules wide apart, -upper median nervule curved ; subntedian 

 Wfrz/KJ-^; curved at the base. Hindwing, triangular; costa very convex at the base; outer margin nearly 

 straight, sinuous ; with a slender tail at end of upper and lower median nervules ; abdominal margin long ; 

 costal tiervure much curved, extending to the apex, with a short bent basal spur [praecostal nervure] ; subcostats 

 and discoidal equidistant from costal nervure ; discoidal cell closed by a slender disco-cellular nervule [which 

 joins the median nervure at the point where the second median nervule is given off] ; two upper median ner^mles 

 from end of the cell, subincdian and internal nerrures wide apart, the latter short. Body short, thorax robust, 

 palpi porrect, pointed at apex, flat beneath, squamo.^e, le^s squamose, antenna- short.'' (Moore, I. c.) 



