i8o LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Charaxes jasius, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 25, pi. 

 ii, fig. 4 (1878); Lang, Butterflies Eur., p. 154, pi. 34, 

 fig. i, pi. 36, fig. i (1882). 



This Butterfly is the only European representative of the 

 genus to which it belongs. It is found in most of the countries 

 bordering on the Mediterranean, France, Italy, Greece, Algeria, 

 &c. In Southern France it is perhaps most abundant in the 

 Isles of Hyeres, though it occurs as far north as Lyons. 



It measures from two and a half to three and a half inches 

 across the wings, which are of a silky brown with a slight 

 reddish tinge. All the wings have a marginal yellow border, 

 cut by the nervures, and shading into orange towards the tip 

 of the fore-wings, and into yellowish-green at the anal angle of 

 the hind-wings. On the fore-wings the costa is yellowish-red, 

 and there is a marginal row of orange spots running from the 

 costa, sometimes represented on the hind- wings by a spot on 

 the costa. Within the band there is generally a row of four 

 small blue spots towards the anal angle of the hind-wings. 

 The yellow band of the hind-wings is narrowly bordered with 

 black, and the tails are also black. 



On the under side, the wings, from the base to beyond the 

 middle, are of a deep purplish-red colour, with many stripes 

 and spots of olive-brown bordered with white ; this is followed 

 by a bluish-white band, broader on the hind-wings than on 

 the fore -wings, where it is sometimes only slightly marked; 

 outside this, on the fore-wings, is a row of orange spots 

 bordered outside with black, and separated by a grey space 

 from the orange hind-margin; on the hind-wings the white 

 band is followed by a series of dark red spots, beyond which 

 the wing is orange nearly to the hind-margin, which is more 

 narrowly edged with black than on the upper side. The inner 

 side of this orange space is more or less clouded with black; 



