NYMPHALID.'E. NYMPIIALIN.-E. CIIARAXES. 2S5 



Mr. Moore (1. c. ) records the male as "taken near Trincomalee in August, fluttering 

 over the ground on the edge of forest jungle " (Hutchison), " Also found at Kandy " ( IVade). 



The FEMALE has been described by Mr. Moore as a distinct species under the name of 

 //. [= C] sereiuUba as follows : — •' Upperside deep fulvous-red. Forewing with a broad trans- 

 verse medial discal purple-white band, showing some dusky sinuous streaks of the underside, 

 and bordered inwardly by black streaks, the outer border to external margin being brown- 

 black with a slight fulvous lunular posterior inner streak. Hindwing with a short medial 

 discal purple-white band bordered inwardly by a narrow black streak ; a submarginal black 

 macular band, broad and entire apically, thence attenuated and broken into smaller spots to 

 anal angle and surmounted by a small white medial streak one between each vein. Underside 

 fulvous-brown, darkest basally and externally and washed with purple-grey, the disc trans- 

 versely fulvous- white, or very pale fulvous, base with transverse irregular zigzag black lines, 

 a short line beyond the cell and a sinuous line across the disc, a submarginal irregular dusky 

 lunular fascia on foraoiug, and hindwing with a row of small black-pointed anchor-shaped 

 white marks." 



" Taken in the forest at Kottawa, and at Kandy, by Captain Wade." (Moore, 1. c.) 



C. psaphon is the darkest species of this group known, the upperside of the male having 

 the outer half deep black. It appears to be confined to the island of Ceylon, 



577- Olxarases imna, Butler, 



C. imna, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 122, pi. iv, fig. 2. 



Habitat : India [Butler), Orissa, Bombay, South India. 



Expanse : $, 375 inclies {Butler'). $, yi to 38 ; ?, 47 inches. 



Description : " Male. Allied to C. cimon, [Felder, from Batchian], but the apical area 

 of the y2»rt^i//«^ not at all directed inwardly at the costa and more dentate. Of the hindzoing 

 as in C. corax, [Felder], the anal half reduced to decreasing spots. Underside almost as in 

 C. corax." 



"Intermediate in character between C. cimon and C. corax, the forewing being very 

 similar to that of the former, the hindwing more like that of the latter species." 

 {Butler, 1. c.) This description is not of much use in the absence of specimens of C. cimon 

 and C. corax, but from Mr. Butler's figure it is clear that this is the Indian form of C. psaphon, 

 which latter typically is confined to Ceylon ; the South Indian specimens approximate very 

 cljsely to C. psaphon, some being barely distinguishable from Ceylon specimens ; further 

 north the divergence increases, and in Orissa, which is the most northerly known locality for 

 this species, typical C. imna occurs, with the black spots of the hindwing well-separated 

 and much reduced, but even there specimens are found with the spots coalescing and almost 

 as large as in South Indian specimens. A female taken with a male by Mr. Rhodes-Morgan 

 in the Wynaad is indistinguishable from that sex of C. psaphon. Two female specimens 

 taken at Calcutta and Nagpur respectively and which I have doubtfully identified as C. hindia, 

 as they are nearer to the figure of that species than to the same sex of typical C. imna, are 

 not improbably referable to this species. The character of the markings is the same as in the 

 Wynaad specimen of C. imna, but as would be expected from the drier climate of the localities 

 where they were taken, they are much paler throughout. 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has specimens of C. imna from Orissa taken by Mr. 

 W. C. Taylor, and from the Wynaad taken by Mr. Rhodes-Morgan; Mr. Doherty took it 

 in Travancore and at Beypoor, Mr. G. W. Vidal has sent specimens from Khandalla taken 

 in April; and Mr. E. H. Aitkin from Matheran taken in January. 



The next five species may be distinguished from the preceding by the form of the black 

 border to the forewing, it being broad at the costa and very narrow at the anal angle, the 

 inner edge being thus very oblique, sometimes straight, sometimes curved towards the base of 

 the wing at the costa. The ground-colour is uniform fulvous. They are all variable, very 

 closely allied, and doubtfully distinct, 



