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585- Oharases jalindor, Butler. 



C. jalittt/cr, Butler, Lep. Ex., p. 98, n. 4, pi. xxxvii, fig 4, male and female (1872) ; C. hi/>/>(»iax, Felder, 

 (female only), Reise Novara, Lep., vol. iii, p. 443, n. 722 (1867). 



Habitat : N,-E. Himalayas. 



ExPAN.SE: (J, 36; $,41 inches. 



DESCRIPTIO^f : "Male and female. Allied to C. hipponax, Felder. Upperside rich 

 fulvous. Foreiving with three narrow discoidal nebuloe, a disco-cellular fusciole, four lineoles 

 [little lines] obliquely crossing the middle of the wing, sublunate, and two beyond the cell 

 small, indistinct, black ; a broad fascia outwardly irregularly whitish, extending from the 

 subcostal to the submedian nervure, the external area broadly black, including six spots 

 fulvous in the male, whitish in the female. Hindwing almost as in C. khasianiis, Butler, male. 

 Underside, the wings most like those of C. pleistoanax, Felder, but more rufescent, the 

 median fascia less whitish, much broader at the costa of the fofeiting." 



" This is not a rare species in collections, and, exclusive of other characters, may be 

 picked out at once by the white band of the forewing terminating upon the submedian 

 nervure. Major Roberts took the female of C. jalinder at Darjeeling, but I have preferred 

 to figure both sexes from one collection" [that of Mr. Moore] {Butler, I. c.) 



We have no specimen exactly agreeing with the figure, but specimens closely resembling 

 it are found in all localities where C. hipponax is found. 



Mr. Butler gives the female of C. hipponax as desciibed by Felder as a synonym of his 

 (Butler's) C. jalinder. Dr. Felder's description of that sex is given below.* 



586. Charases hlndla, Butler. 



C. hindia, Butler, Lep. Ex., p. 99, n. 5, p\. xxxvii, fig. 5, male a.xid female {1872) ; I/aridra /lindiii, id., 

 Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist., fifth series, vol. xvi, p. 306, n. 50 (1885). 



Habitat : Sikkim ; near Assam. 

 Expanse: 3',3"6; ?, 4-2 inches. 



Description: "Male and fe.mvle. Allied to C. jalinder, Butler, Differs on the 

 UPPERSIDE in having the basal area brighter, the disco-cellular fasciole better defined, the 

 median liturx obsolete ; no virgula in the fascia ; the whitish fascia broader, tinted with 

 fulvous below the first median branch of \.\\q forewing ; the external area of the forewing broader, 

 the discal spots larger in the mile, but the upper ones obsolete, in the female fulvous, scarcely 

 conspicuous ; the black fascia of the hindwing more macular and much narrower. Underside 

 much paler ; the median fascia in the forewing less oblique, the ochraceous area broader ; the 

 discal area much broader." 



"Mr. Moore has two specimens of the female of this species, one of which is scarcely 

 larger than the male. It is a conspicuous form, and may be distinguished without trouble. 

 The female has the external area of tfie wings much browner than in any other species with 

 which I am acquainted, but this may be partially due to fading." (_Bittler, I. c. ) 



I have no specimens exactly agreeing with the figure, but there are males closely resembling 

 it from the localities where C. hipponax is found. A female most closely resembling the 

 figure was taken by me in Calcutta, the only specimen I have seen from that neighbourhood. 

 Mr. E. A. Minchin took a single female at Nagpur in March. I very doubtfully identify these 

 specimens as C. hindia, I think it is very probable they are a dry country form of C. imna, 

 being throughout much paler-coloured than the Wynaad female of that species, but not havin^r 

 procured males from the same localities, I cannot be certain about it. 



The three remaining species differ from all the foregoing in having the basal area of both 

 wings very dark and powdered with fuscous ; the white discal band is also broader and clearer. 



• " Female, Upp«rside as in C. hierax, but richer coloured. F orewing w'\{.\\ the discal strig\ ev.Tnescent 

 a broad diffused whitish fascia extending to the internal nervure, through which the streaks of the underside' 

 are seen, the border inwardly divided with six wnitish spots. Hindwing with an anterior whitish patch extend- 

 ing to the second subcost.il branch, and ttie m-irgin of the ground-colour beyond the spots bro.ader " 

 (Felder, 1. c.) 



