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the wings are closed, but if the habit of settling on the 
ground is the usual one, this protective resemblance 
does not seem to be of much use. 
207. Charaxes dolon. 
Charaxes dolon, Westw., Cat. Or. Ent., p. 55, t. XXVIL., 
2, 3°(1848) = Butt.Ind?)i my <p. 272,t.. xxi, 
fig. 100, 3. 
A rare species at 83—4000 ft. in Sikkim, where Miller 
has only obtained it in April and May. 
208. Charaxes eudamippus. 
Charaxes eudamippus, Doubl., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 
1843, p. 218, t. vii.; Butt. Ind., i, p. 273. 
Common at low elevations from April till August. 
209. Charaxes athamas. 
Papilio athamas, Drury, Ill. Ex, Ent., 1, p. 5, t. il. 
(1770). 
Charaxes athamas, Butt. Ind., ii., p. 275. 
C. samatha, Moore, P. Z.8., 1878, p. 831. 
~ Hulepis hamasta, Moore, l. c., 1882, p. 288. 
Charaxes bharata, Feld., Reise Nov., 11, p. 488 (1867). 
This wide-ranging and variable species has received 
two most objectionable synonyms from Moore in addition 
to Felder’s. Why names which have no apparent 
meaning, and are therefore hard to remember, should 
be made additionally senseless by transliteration is one 
of those points which, though often criticised, Mr. Moore 
does not condescend to explain. I have seen his type of 
hamasta, and have Ceylon specimens (samatha). In 
neither is there anything at all to make them worthy of 
distinction even as varieties. The species is common in 
Sikkim at low elevations from April to December, and 
occurs up to 5 or 6000 ft. 
I entirely agree with the conclusion come to by de 
Nicéville after a most careful examination of numerous 
specimens from all parts of India, namely, that ‘‘ there 
is but one species, C. athamas, which is variable in all 
the characters which have been taken by different 
writers in describing the many species which are said to 
be allied to, but distinet from, the parent species, and 
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