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slender discocellular thread, which joins the median just before the middle branch ; 

 submedian and internal vein wide apart, internal vein short. Body short ; thorax 

 elongated, broad, very robust, woolly at the base ; head large, woolly, not tufted ; 

 eyes prominent, naked ; palpi large, obliquely porrected, broad and flat in front, the 

 tip elevated much above the vertex, and extending forward, apart at the base, but 

 approximating at the tip, thickly scaled, second joint above clothed with short erect 

 hairs, apical joint almost smooth, conical ; forelegs of male minute, scaly, and slightly 

 hairy ; forelegs of female scaly, femur very slightly hairy on the inner side, tarsus 

 dilated towards the tip, which is rounded oS" in front, each joint with two short 

 blunt spines beneath ; middle and hind legs rather short, robust, finely scaled, 

 tibijB flat beneath, each side armed with a row of short fine spines, tarsi armed 

 with four series of short spines, the terminal lateral spine on each side being the 

 longest, claws moderate, inner lobe short, outer lobe acute, curved ; antennae rather 

 short, stout, straight, the club elongated, thick and truncate at the tip, with a slight 

 treble carina on its inner edge. Type, 0. Jasius. 



Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped ; head with four vertical short spiny processes ; 

 anal segment with two short depressed points. 



Chrysalis. — Abbreviated, thick, almost oval, smooth, dorsum arched; head 

 very obtuse. 



Egg. — Large, globular; apex flattened, broad. 



CHARAXES FABITJS (Plate 183, figs. 1, la, b, c, d, (J, ? ; larva and pupa). 



Papilio Fabius, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 12 (1781). Mant. Ins. ii. p. 7 (1787). Ent. Syst. iii., i., 



p. 64 (1793). 

 Nymphalis Fabius, Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 353 (1823). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 309 



(1851). 

 Charaxes Fabius, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1869). Kirby, Catal. Butt. p. 268 (1871). 



Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 29, pi. 15, fig. 1 (1880). de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 280 



(1886). 

 Paphia Fdbia, Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, pi. 12, fig. 3, larva (1846). 



Papilio Solon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii., i., p. 69 (1793). Jones, Icones, pi. 63, fig. 2, 9 . 

 Papilio Eiiphanes, Esper, Ausl. Sclimett. pi. 59, fig. 1, ^ (1785-90). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside blackish oHve-brown, palest basally. Forewing y^ith. 

 a transverse discal recurved series of eight yellow spots increasing in size from 

 near the costa, the upper spots mostly rounded, the lower spots being broad and 

 irregularly-quadrate with uneven exterior ; also a yellow subcostal spot between the 

 lower subcostal veinlets and upper radial, and a smaller spot outside end of the 

 cell above the upper median veinlet ; a marginal lower row of minute yellow spots 

 which are more or less obsolescent anteriorly. Hindwing with a transverse discal 

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