634 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE SPECIES OF CHARAXES. [Nov. 14, 
44, CHARAXES COGNATUS. 
Charaxes cognatus, Van dey Hoeven, Tijdsch. voor Entom. pt. 1—4 
(1859-61), pl. 9. f. 1, 2. 
Hab. Moluccas. 
Ale supra fusce, fascia communi sulphurea ; postice aliquando 
omnino sulphuree, margine fusco, maculis albis submarginate. 
45. CHARAXES ATHAMAS. 
Papilio athamas, Drury, Ill. i. t. 2. f. 3, 4; Cramer, Pap. t. 89. 
f. C, D; Godart, Enc. M. ix. pt. 1. p. 353, n. 11; Swainson, Zool. 
Til. 2nd ser. t. 90. 
. Jasia athamas. 
Nymphalis athamas, Westw., Doubl. & Hewits. Gen. Diurn. Lepid. 
p- 309. n. 29. 
Papilio athamas, Drury, Abbild. und Beschreib. exotisch. Insek. 
t, 2.8 4: 
P. pyrrhus, Donovan, Ins. India, pl. 29. f. 3. 
Eribea athamis, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. n. 430. 
P. pyrrhus, Mus. Banks. 
Hab. India; China; Java. B.M. 
46. CHARAXES HEBE, sp.n. (PI. XXXVII. fig. 3.) 
Upperside—front wings, basal half, except the cell, pale greenish ; 
base and inner margin ochreous; cell grey, brownish in front ; apical 
half dark brown, with a green oval spot halfway between the end of 
the cell and the apex. Hind wings pale greenish, base grey ; inner 
margin brownish ochreous ; outer margin grey, with brown marginal 
edge and two submarginal rows of black spots with white spots 
between them; a narrow blue line down each of the tails. Body 
fuscous ; thorax grey ; head spotted with ochreous ; antennee brown, 
tipped with red. 
Underside pale reddish brown ; outer margin deeper-coloured ; a 
broad central greenish silky patch, rounded in front, widest at the 
inner margin of front wings, in the hind wings angulated at the 
median nervure and abruptly tapering to a point at the third median 
nervule, margined with rich brown, and outwardly by a row of red- 
dish spots extending from near the apex of the front to the anal 
angle of the hind wings, lunulate from the middle of the front, to the 
anal angle of the hind wings, the lunule at the angle of the central 
patch margined inwardly with white and outwardly with blue, those 
below it margined with blue inwardly; a greenish oval spot on the 
front wings, as above ; a black line near the base, crossing the cells 
obliquely ; two black lunules on the lower part of the abdominal 
fold ; a submarginal row of small black spots and a blue and yellow 
line along the outer margin of the hind wings. Tail brown. Body 
brownish ochreous. 
Hab. Sumatra. B.M. 
This insect is closely allied to C. athamas, but is much more ro- 
