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DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF CHARAXES 

 FROM THE MALAY PENINSULA. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Chabaxes Durnfoedi, n. sp. 



$ Wings above dark brownish-ochraceous ; anterior wings 

 with the apical half blackish, containing two transverse series 

 of greyish-white angulated spots placed between the nervules, 

 and with a somewhat obscure series of small greyish-white 

 marginal spots, those at the outer angle largest and most 

 distinct ; two small obscure greyish-white spots at end of cell, 

 separated by the upper discoidal nervule ; posterior wings with a 

 very broad marginal greyish-white fascia, inwardly lunulated 

 and margined with blackish, containing a central series of 

 blackish spots with whitish centres, placed between the nervules 

 — that at anal angle duplex — and with a narrow submarginal 

 blackish line. Wings beneath brownish grey; anterior wings 

 with the cell containing a small black basal spot, and centrally 

 crossed by a darker spot margined with blackish, an irregular 

 darker fascia margined with blackish 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 ; posterior wings with two irregular darker fascias mar- 

 gined with blackish, one at base, the other crossing disk 

 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 legs more or less concolorous 

 with wings. 



Exp. wings $ 93 millm. 



Hab. — Malay Peninsula ; Sungei Ujong (Durnford). 



This beautiful and exceedingly distinct species seems to find 

 its nearest ally in the Amboinese C. euryalus, Cram., and belongs 

 to that division of the genus in which the caudate prolongation 

 to the posterior wings, at the apex of the third median nervule, 



