NYMPHALID M, 



CHARAXE8. IV. 



CHAR AXES CLITARCIIUS. 16, 17. 



Upperside. JMale. Both wings from the base to the middle white tinted with 

 orange-yellow. Anterior wing with the base brown : the apical half black crossed 

 near the costal margin by a short quadripartite white band and near the outer margin 

 by a series of six spots of the same colour. Posterior wing with two tails: the base 

 broadly grey-green : the outer margin broad blue-black traversed by three parallel 

 bands of lunular pale blue spots : an eye-like spot at the anal angle bordered below 

 with rufous-orange. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above except that there is a black spot near the 

 base ; that the apical half is of a rich brick-red and that the submarginal spots are 

 bordered inwardly by a band of lilac-white. Posterior wing with the base brick-red 

 paler at the abdominal fold bordered with black and crossed longitudinally by three 

 bands of blue-black two of which on the fold are short and bordered on both sides 

 with white, the outer band longer and bordered on the inside only with white : the 

 outer margin broad brick-red followed by paler colour and traversed by two bands 

 of lunular pale blue spots and a submarginal series of large black oval spots bordered 

 above with white below with orange, the margin itself black. 



Exp. 3|ij inch. Hab. New Caledonia. 

 In the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



I have adopted the practice here to which I have hitherto been opposed, but of which I „. 



the advantage, of giving a name to a butterfly if a large species and conspicuously different from thos 

 we know, although I mar not believe it to be a distinct species. C. Clitarchus is thus distinguished fr ■•■ 

 Pyrrhus and its Australian variety Sempronius. 





 Published January 1st, 1S74.] 



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