242 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



HARIDRA HIPPONAX (Plate 178, figs. 1, la, S 9)- 



Charaxes Hipjimax, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 443, male only (1867). Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. 



1870, p. 120. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 290 (1886). 

 Charaxes Ilierax (female only), Felder, I.e. p. 442. 

 Charaxes Khimalara (female only), Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 97, ? . 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark fulvous. Forewiufj with the outer border broadly- 

 black ; a transverse discal white band extending to near or to the lower median 

 veinlet, this band being comparatively narrower and more irregular in its course 

 than in H. Jalinder, its upper end generally composed of the two outer or lower 

 spots above the radial, the crossing veins also being black ; the black discocellular 

 duplex streak more diffused and the inner-bordering sinuous line of the white band 

 more thickly defined ; the submarginal row of fulvous spots obsolescent or obsolete. 

 Hindwing with a short upper discal thickly-defined black sinuous line, which is 

 outwardly diffused with white and crossed by black veins ; the submarginal black 

 macular band broad and continuous to the anal spots, each portion generally with 

 a white central speck. Underside pale rufescent olive-brown, the bordering inter- 

 spaces between the discal sinuous lines, and less so of the subbasal lines, pale 

 yellowish-ochreous ; the outer borders with the normal lilacine-grey washed markings. 



Female. Upperside most like female of H. Hiera.i', the basal area of forewing 

 and the hindwing darker, being dusky brownish-fulvous. Forewing with the discal 

 bluish-white band somewhat narrower, the outer series of whitish spots smaller. 

 Hindwing with short upper discal white band, and broad black submarginal macular 

 band with white lunate central marks. (Described from Folder's type of female 

 Hierax, in the collection of Mr. W. Rothschild.) 



Expanse, c? 3^, ? 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Sylhet ; Khasia Hills ; Naga Hills. 



Vakiett (Plate 178, fig. 1, b, c). — In the Naga Hill specimens, which are 

 somewhat smaller, being only S^ inches in expanse, the discal band on the forewing 

 is comparatively narrower, and is either white, as in typical specimens, or it is of a 

 more or less pale fulvous-white, and, in some, is nearly of the same depth of tint as 

 the basal area, which latter is also somewhat darker in tint. 



Distribution. — Felder's type is from Assam. Specimens from Shillong are in 

 Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Mr. W. B. Farr took it in Sylhet. Specimens from 

 the Khasia Hills, taken in October by Rev. W. A. Hamilton, are in Mr. W. Rothschild's 

 collection. Several specimens of the male of the variety from Naga Hills are in 

 Mr. P. Crowley's collection. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 178, fig. 1 is from a male specimen 

 identical with Felder's type. Fig. la is from the type female erroneously assigned 

 by Felder to H. Hierax. Figs. 1, b, o, are from the Naga Hills variety. 



