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CHARAXES JASIUS. 

 PLATE XVI. 



Ocksenheimer Pap. Jason, Linn. — Pap. Jasius, Fair Esper. 



cater, and chrys Drury's Insects, i. PL 1. fig. 1. — Pap. 



Jason. Cramer, PL 339, A, B Nymph. Jasius, Godart, 



Latreille. 



The genus Charaxes was separated from Nymphalis 

 by Ocasenheimer for the reception of this butterfly, 

 which may be regarded as the most beautiful inha- 

 biting Europe. It varies in the expansion of the 

 wings from three to four inches; the surface a 

 rich silky brown, changing slightly with the light. 

 Along the hinder margin of the primary wings there 

 is a broad fulvous band, more or less sinuated on 

 the inner side and narrowly edged with black exter- 

 nally, divided by eight nervures, which are dark 

 brown ; rather beyond the middle of the wing, a 

 transverse band of large fulvous continuous spots 

 extends from the costa to the inner margin, and is 

 sometimes continued for a short way on the se- 

 condary wings ; the latter likewise with a posterior 

 band, formed of contiguous spots of a fulvous colour, 

 more or less tinged with green, preceded by a series 

 of from five to seven bluish-green spots, commencing 

 at the anal angle; the margin itself black, as well 



