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costal margin shorter ; cell imperfectly closed by a very slender thread ; precostal 

 curved towards the endj with a short tail from the upper median veinlet only. 

 Body extremely robust; antennae more slender; palpi porrect, projected in front of 

 the head; forelegs of the male longer than in typical Charaxes, femur slender, 

 sparsely clothed with long fine hairs beneath, tibia thickened and hairy at the base, 

 tarsus compact; forelegs of the female longer than in typical Charaxes, scaly, 

 tarsus stouter. Sexes dimorphic. Type H. Psaphon. 



Cateepillae. — Slug-shaped ; with four vertical elongated spinous fleshy 

 processes on the head, and two short naked depressed pointed processes on anal 

 segment. 



Chrysalis. — Thick, oval, abbreviated, dorsum well arched ; head obtuse. 



Egg. — Unknown. 



HAEIDEA PSAPHON (Plate 168, fig. 1, la, b, c, c? ? ). 



Cliaraxes Psaphon, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Ent. p. 43, pi. 21, fig. 1, 2, $ (1848). Butler, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 636. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 284 (1886). 

 Nymphalis Psaphon, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 309 (1850). 

 Haridra Psaphon, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 30, pi. 15, fig. 2, ^ (1880). 

 Haridra Serendiba, Moore, id. p. 30, pi. 15, fig. 3, ? (1880). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Foreioing with the exterior half 

 purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, its inner edge being erect and 

 sinuous ; a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish 

 discoidal streaks. Hlndwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which 

 sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; 

 a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside 

 fulvous-brown, washed with purplish-grey. Both wings crossed by three basal, and 

 two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders. Foretving also with a submarginal 

 fascia composed of more or less defined small blackish dentate inner spots and outer 

 diffused pearly-white dentate lunules. Hindwing also with a submarginal darker 

 blackish-grey lunular fascia, and outer series of small black-tipt pearly-white dentate 

 spots. 



Female. Upperside deep fulvous-yellow. Foreicing with a transverse medial 

 discal purplish-white band, which shows, by semi-transparency, the discal sinuous 

 line of the underside, and is edged inwardly by a broken black line which is more or 

 less inwardly diffused anteriorly ; outer border of the wing broadly black, with its 

 inner edge sinuous, and bearing a sliglit fulvous lunular posterior inner streak. 

 Iltndicing with a short medial discal purplish-white band edged inwardly by a slender 

 black sinuous line ; submarginal black band broad, as in the male, but broken and 

 macular posteriorly, and with a distinct white lunule on each portion between all the 



