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second series, vol. iv, p. 183, ri. 2 (1858); Butler, Cafc. Fab. Lep. B. M., p. 44, n. 1 

 (1869); Walker, Trans. But. Soc. Loud., 1895, p. 450, n. 21 ; Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. 

 ii, p. 209 (1895); Kirby, The Entomologist, vol. xxxii, p. 31 (1899); Papilio eumea 

 (sic), Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. ii, p. 132, pi. clxxxiii, figs. C, D, female (1777); Papilio 

 gripus Fabricius, Syst. Ent., App., p. 829, n. 178-79 (1775) ; Sp. Ins., vol. ii, p. 58, 

 h. 255 (1781); Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 149, n. 457 (1793); Herbst, Pap., vol. vi, 

 p. 77, ii. 41, pi. cxxxv, figs. 3, 4, female (1793) ; Satyrus gripus, Godart, Enc. Meth., 

 vol. ix, p. 497, n. 70 (1819) ; Papilio grispus (sic), Fabricius, Mant. Ins., vol. ii, p. 

 28, n. 294 (1787) ; Papilio decempunctatus Goeze, Ent. Beytr., vol. iii, pt. 1, p. 212, 

 n. 31 (1779). 



No species of Qlerome has, I believe, ever been bred. The larva 

 will almost certainly be found to feed on Bambusa sp., Natural Order 

 Graminese. 



It is remarkable that no species of the subfamily Elymniinse has 

 been recorded from Hongkong. As the importation of ornamental 

 palms on which the larvas feed is probably considerable from countries 

 where species of the group are common, it is more than probable that 

 species of Elymniinse will become naturalised in the island and on the 

 adjoining mainland. 



Subfamily NYMPHALIN^E. 

 21.* Charaxes (Eulepis) athamas, Drury. 



Papilio Eques achivus athamas, Drury, 111. Ex. Ins., vol. i, p. 5, pi. ii, figs. 4, 

 male, upper and underside (1770) ; Papilio athamas, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, p. 140, 

 pi. Ixxxix, figs. C, D, male (1776); Walker, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1895, p. 458, 

 n. 52; Moore, Lep. India., vol. ii, p. 254 (1895); Eulepis athamas, Rothschild and 

 Jordan, Nov. ZooL, vol. v, pi. x, figs. 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, male; 4, female; pi. 

 xi, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, male; 3, 4, 8, 9, female (1898) ; vol. vi, p. 245, n. 12 

 (1899). 



Mr. James J. Walker records that he once saw this butterfly in 

 Hongkong. Messrs Rothschild and Jordan under b. E. athamas athamas 

 record it from South China (Hongkong), but add " Authentic Chinese 

 specimens we have not examined." I have seen no specimen from 

 Hongkong. The larva in Ceylon feeds on Csesalpinia, Natural Order 

 Leguminosse; in South India on Grewia sp. Natural Order Tiliacese, on 

 Csesalpinia, Fainciana, Adenanthera, Acacia, and Albizzia, Natural Order 

 Leguminosse ; and in the Western Himalayas on Acacia and Albizzia. 



22. Charaxes polyxena polyxena, Cramer. 

 Papilio polyxena, Cramer, Pap. Ex., vol. i, p. 85 pi. liv, figs. A, B, female (1775) ; 

 Baridra polyxena, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol., ii, p. 247 (1896); Charaxes polyxena 

 polyxena, Rothschild and Jordan, Nov. Zool., vol. vii, p. 334 (1900) ; Nymphalis 

 polyxo, Godart, Enc. Meth., vol. ix, p. 399, n. 169 (1819) ; Papilio lernardus, Fabri- 

 cius, Ent. Syst., vol. iii, pt. i, p. 71, n. 223 (1793); Nymphalis (Charaxes) lernardus, 

 J. ii. 2 



