290 NYMPHALID^. NYMPHALIN/E. CIIARAXES. 



in others the spots are large and pure white, corresponding so far with his figure of the 

 female of C. jalinder. The remainder have the spots of greater or less prominence, and 

 suffused more or less with the fulvous ground-colour. 



583- Oharazes Ixieraz, FeUier. 



Chierax, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 442, n. 721, male on1y(iS67); iJ., Butler, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 120, n. 12 ; C <^^>«rtr</Ki, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, vol. iv, pt. 2, p. 434, n. i, pi. xi, 

 figs. I, 2, 7nale (1848). 



Habitat: Masuri {Kollar), North India, Assam. 



Expanse : Not given. 



Description: "Male. Upfeuside paler than in C /J'-ffir/Zzc?/?, [Westwood]. Foirwing 

 with a blackish-fuscous discal striga more or less obsolete, the ground-colour immediately 

 beyond it paler, the blackish-fuscous border narrower tlian in C. polyxena, [Cramer], and divided 

 with spots of the ground-colour most often evanescent. Uiiuiwing with the patch at the 

 apex broader than in C. polyxena, joined with black spots, the uppermost of which often 

 without whitish virgul?e, the margin beyond these narrower than in the species compared 

 [C. polyxena?], distinctly no streak before the margin as in C, polyxena, but with an antico- 

 discal strigvila of blackish-fuscous virgulae. Underside almost as in C. psaphon, the two discal 

 streaks in the hindwino more distant, and the ferruginous fascia of that wing narrower." 



" Nearly related to C. polyxena, Cramer, of which we are only acquainted with the 

 figure, larger than C. psaphon, Westwood, the apex and inner angle of the forewing of the 

 male more produced, the inner margin of the hindwing shorter, the inner and occasionally 

 the outer tooth of the hindwing very short, not standing out tail-like." (^Felder, 1. c.) 



Mr. Butler (1. c.) remarks of C. kierax and C. hipponax that they " are merely the 

 normal forms of the male C. bernardiis, from India. Dr. Fekler seems to think that the typical 

 form from China may be distinct from the Indian one ; but I find an Indian male agreeing 

 more closely with a Chinese female than do two females from China, or two males from India." 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has typical male specimens of this form from Sikkim, the 

 Assam Valley, and from Chittagong The specimens from Cachar and Tavoy I have described 

 above as varieties of C. corax are almost exactly intermediate between that species and 

 C, hierax, but nearer the former, as the discal pale band is hardly visible. 



584. Oharazes hipponaz, Feider. 



C. hipponax, Feider, Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 443, n. 722, male only (1867) ; id., Butler, Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond , 1870, p. 120, n. 13. 



Habitat : North India, Assam, 



Expanse : Not given. 



Description : '• Male. Upperside richer fulvous than in C hierax, [Feider]. Forrcving 

 with the blackish-fuscous border broader at the apex, inwardly more oblique than in that 

 species, the space between the discal striga and the border as far as the lowest median fold 

 diffusediy whitish. Hindiving with the anterior virgulre outwardly diffusedly defined with 

 whitish, the margin of the ground-colour beyond the spots broader, otherwise as in C. hierax. 

 Underside as in that species, but the interior discal streak outwardly defined with ochraceous, 

 of \\\Q foreioing the exterior more receding from it." 



" The wings much paler and richer than in C. hierax, the two discal streaks more distant, 

 the inner one outwardly more broadly defined with ochraceous- whitish." 



" The forewing of the male has the apex less produced than in the male of Chierax. 

 The inner margin of the hindwing in both sexes seems longer than in C. hierax and 6'. 

 psaphon. The outer margin of the forewing also in both sexes is longer than in C. hierax , 

 the branches of the veins also appear to be longer." {Feider, 1. c.) 



The Indian Museum, Calcutta, has typical specimens of this form from the Assam valley, 

 Cachar, and Sylhet, and also from the Khasi Hills and from Sikkim ; in the latter district it is 

 the prevailing; form, while C. hie/ ax apparently only occurs rarely there. 



