212 LEPIDOPIERA IXDICA 



CHARUS ISWARA (Plate 453, fig. 1, ^, la, ?). 



Fapilio Isuara, While, Eiitom. i. p. 280 (1842). Doubleday and Hewitson, C.en. D. Lep. i. p. 11, pi. 2, 

 fig. 1 (1S4<)). Gray, Catal. Leji. £. M. i. p. 19 (1852). Moore, Catal. Lep. Mas. E. I. C. i. p. 101 

 (1857). Felder, Verh. Z. B. Ges. "Wit-n. p. 320 (1864). Wallace, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 1865, 

 p. 51. Butler, ih. 1877, p. 553. Distant, Eliop. Malay, p. 344, pi. 30, fig. 1, S, 2, ? (1885). 

 Hiigen, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 154; ih. Iris, 1894, p. 21. Eothscliild, Nov. Zool. ii. p. 288 

 (1805). 



Cliarus Istpara, Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. 1886, p. 51. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside I'icli bro\vnisli-black ; cilia slightly alternated -with 

 ■white. Foreicing with slender longitudinal golden-yellow scaled cell streaks and 

 hairy-scaled broader outer vein-streaks, the latter palest posteriorly ; lower base of 

 the wing also golden-yellow scaled. Hindiving with a large broad creamy-white 

 upper-discal patch composed of four portions ; tlie outer edge of the lower portion 

 not sharply-defined, but thickly white scaled, and with a decreasing cluster of similar 

 scales extending from its lower edge ; an incurved anal and a lower marginal lunula 

 dark crimson. Underside. Foreicinij duller coloured, bluish-black ; cell streaks 

 prominent and bluish-grey ; vein streaks short, broad, bluish-grey and uniformly 

 restricted midway across the wing. Ilindwlng hiue-hlack ; upper basal area speckled 

 Avith grey scales ; cell streaks and base of the veins grey-scaled; the upper-discal 

 white patch as above, but not so bx'oad, and followed by two lower small more-or-less- 

 defined white or greyish-white scaled lunular spots placed in the median interspaces ; 

 a large dark red anal incomplete ocellus and a red lower marginal complete ocellus, 

 the former being inwardly bordered with blue scales, and followed by three lower- 

 discal blue-scaled lunules ; outer margin with a slender white cilial-lunule between 

 the veins, the upper being somewhat wider. 



Female. Upperside. Foreiving brownish-black, the cell and vein-streaks paler, 

 the latter more distinct, and fuliginous-grey posteriorly. Hlndwing with similar 

 lai'ge discal white patch as in male, but with its anterior portion shorter, the lower 

 decreasing cluster of white scales prominent ; a large dark crimson anal and a lower 

 marginal ocellate-spot. Underside. Foreiciiig \yA\er; similar to the male. Hlndwing 

 also similar to the male, except that the two lower-discal white-scaled lunules are 

 larger, and the red anal and lower marginal ocellate-spot complete, their black 

 centre being smaller. Budg brownisli-black ; front of thorax and head white 

 spotted; abdomen with a lateral row of white dots and longitudinal whitish scaled 

 streaks. 



Expanse, c? 5 to 5f, ? of inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Sumatra; Banka ; Billiton. 



DiSTKiiiUTiox. — Within our area, specimens were obtained hj Dr. J. Anderson in 



