112 On new Species of Rhopalocera from Burma. 



brown instead of bluish fuscous. Underside no purple 

 suffusion. 



A character common to both sexes is the almost complete 

 absence of the discal zigzag fuscous fascia which crosses the 

 middle of both wings in typical C. erota, the white band in 

 the female and the lighter band in the male of Cynthia circe 

 being almost immaculate. I have a series of males from 

 Burma which present absolutely no variation in the characters 

 described above, and I possess but one female from Toungoo, 

 Burma, which is exactly matched by a female in the British 

 Museum from Beeling, Tenasserim. If the C. asela of 

 Moore, from Ceylon, is recognized as a species distinct from 

 C. erota (Fabricius), this species rmist also be regarded as 

 distinct, as the Ceylon form is much nearer (7. erota (typical) 

 in both sexes. 



Charaxes ajax, sp. n. 



flab. Battak Mountains, Sumatra : June, July. 



Description. Male. Allied to C. corax, Felder, from which 

 it differs in the ground-colour of upper and underside being 

 darker, the outer black band on the upperside of the fore wing- 

 being slightly broader and extending broadly black to the 

 anal angle of the fore wing, its inner edge straighter, as the 

 crescentic markings are clearly detached in the intermedian 

 spaces ; two fulvous spots, the upper displaced outwards 

 between the radial, and the lower in the following interspace, 

 continuing the series of fulvous lunules formed by the black 

 crescents and the border. 



The submarginal black spots on the hind wing are larger 

 and more triangular, their inner edges irrorated with black 

 atoms, and the first four from the anal angle tipped with a 

 minute white spot. The underside is of a rich glaucous colour, 

 in some lights inclining to purplish, much darker than any 

 corax, more resembling some of the darker specimens of baya, 

 Moore. The light violaceous antemarginal line is present in 

 the fore wing, and within it are indistinct greenish lunules. 

 In the hind wing a broad antemarginal band of olivaceous 

 green, sinuated in each interspace, is bounded anteriorly by a 

 narrow brownish border. 



The disk is crossed by the usual dark lines, the outermost 

 bounded by olivaceous green irrorations, which are wanting 

 in corax. 



Poritia geta, sp. n. 



Hob. Toungoo, Burma : March. 



Description. Male. Allied to P. pleurata, Hew., and 



