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HARIDRA JALINDER (Plate 179, figs. 1, la, b, c, (J $ ). 



Charaxes Jalinder, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 98, pi. 37, Eg. i, S 9 (1872). de Niceville, Butt of 

 India, etc. ii. p. 291 (1886). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside bright ricli dark fulvous. Forewing with a broad 

 black outer border, a transverse discal white band ending at or before the submedian 

 vein, normally broken anteriorly below the subcostal, and inwardly bordered by a 

 black discocellular duplex streak at end of cell, and, generally, by a lower discal 

 sinuous line ; the outer black border traversed by a row of more or less defined 

 small fulvous lunate spots. Hindwing with a very short upper discal white or 

 whitish band, not extending beyond the lower subcostal, and which is inwardly 

 edged by a black sinuous line ; subraarginal macular black decreasing band with or 

 without white lunate dots. Underside purpurescent brownish-red, washed with 

 lilacine-grey, the transverse black sinuous lines pale edged, the discal interspaces 

 pale yellowish. 



Female. Upperside darker fulvous than in male. Forewing with the discal 

 white band broader, its inner sinuous edge broader black and its subcostal streak 

 more or less slender or obsolescent ; the outer row of spots more or less large and 

 fulvous-white. Hindtoing with a short upper discal white band, and a broad 

 submarginal black macular band with slender white lunular marks. Underside 

 much paler than in male, with prominent yellowish discal and darker subbasal 

 interspaces. 



Expanse, $ 3| to 3^, ? 4 to 4^ inches. 



Habitat. — E. Himalayas ; Khasia and Naga Hills ; Upper Burma. 



DiSTKiBTJTiON. — "We have typical Jalinder from Sikkim, and Buxa in Bhotan, 

 taken by Mr. G. C. Dudgeon. Specimens from Sikkim, taken in July, September 

 and November, by the late Mr. Otto Moller, are in Mr. W. Rothschild's collection. 

 Both sexes from the Khasia Hills are in Colonel Swinhoe's and Mr. W. Rothschild's 

 collection. Males obtained by Lieut. E. Y. Watson in the Chin Hills, 1000 to 2000 

 feet, in May, are in the British Museum ; Major C. H. E. Adamson took it commonly 

 at Bhamo ; specimens from the Upper Mekong, Shan States, were taken by Mr. R. 

 Roberts, C.E., and are in the collection of Mr. H. C. Dent, Mr. W. Rothschild and 

 my own. 



Of our illustrations of IS. Jalinder on Plate 179, fig. 1, la, b, c, are from the 

 male and female type specimens described by Mr. Butler. On Plate 180, fig. 1, la, 

 we figure a male of the (? seasonal) form of this species named Eindia. 



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