266 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



refuse on the banks of streams." Lieut; E. Y. Watson obtained two specimens at 

 Tilin in February (J. Bombay N. H. S. 1891, 41). 



MURWAREDA DELPHIS (Plate 190, Figs. 1, la cJ). 



Charaxes Belphis, Doubleday, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1843, p. 217, pi. 7. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1865, p. 635. Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 105, pi. 15, fig. 1., S (1883). de Niccville, Butt, of 

 India, etc., ii. p. 272 (1886). 



Cliaraxes Concha, Vollenhoven, TijJ. voor Ent. iv. p. 162, pi. 10, figs. 1-3 (1861). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside pale olivescent-yellow. Forevnng with 

 the base of the costa slightly infuscated ; an indistinct slender black streak on upper 

 end of the discocellulars ; the whole apical border broadly purpurescent-black ; the 

 inner edge of the black border irregularly sinuous, commencing on the costa beyond 

 the cell, curving outward and rapidly decreasing to a narrow lunule above end of the 

 submedian vein ; below the apez is an oblique more-or-less lunate white spot. 

 Hindwing with a submarginal row of narrow greenish lunulas, the three upper of 

 which are disconnected, and with thickly black-spotted edges, the lower lunules 

 being paler, connected, their ends extending to the point of the veins are but slightly 

 black speckled, and show a slender white inner streak. Body pale olivescent-yellow ; 

 thorax above tinged with grey ; collar, head and palpi above dark brown ; vertex 

 and sides of collar white spotted ; palpi beneath white ; legs above blackish ; white 

 beneath ; fore tarsi white ; antennae black ; eyes reddish. Underside olivescent 

 pearly white. Forewing with two (occasionally only one) small, superposed, and a 

 larger broken upper black spot within the cell ; a lunate black-edged bluish-centred 

 lunule and a slender contiguous streak in front at end of the cell, below which is a 

 larger bluish-centred black-edged round spot between the middle and lower medians, 

 beyond which are two short slender excurved subapical black streaks below the 

 subcostal, followed by a submarginal row of slender bluish-grey speckled lunules, 

 and a parallel row of small rich ochreous dentate spots. Hindwing with a large 

 blue-centred black-edged round spot on middle of the costa, a similar small spot 

 below it, but which latter is sometimes absent ; a slender black-edged lunate mark 

 at end of tho cell, and lower slender black streaks extending to above the anal angle ; 

 followed by a submarginal row of bluish-grey lunules, a parallel row of dark rich 

 ochreous spots, and an outer reversed-lunulate pale ochreous fascia, beyond which 

 another row of bluish-grey narrow lunules, and then a marginal row of broader pale 

 ochreous lunate spots. 



Expanse, 3^- to 4 inches. 



Habitat. — Assam ; Cachar ; Sylhet ; Upper Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula, etc. 



Distribution. — Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Bengal, 1887, 42G) records a 

 single male in August from Tavoy. Major C. H. E. Adamson (List, p. 20) took it 

 at " Tavoy and Hpapoon in October and November ; but was rare." Mr. A. R. H. 



