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8. Chaeaxes (Haridra) aristogiton, Felder, Plate II, Figs. 11, 12 

 gynandromorphous example. 



C. aristogiton, Felder, Ileise Novara, Lep., yol. iii, p. 445, n. 727 (1867); id., 

 Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 121, n. 18 [err. 88] ; idem, id., Journ., Linn. 

 Soc. Lond., Zoology, vol. xxv, p. 397, n. 139 (1896); id., de Niceville, Butt. India, 

 vol. ii, p. 282, n. 573 (1886) ; idem, id., Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. v, p. 296, 

 n. 50 (1890); id., Adamson, Cat. Butt. Burmah, p. 20, n. 207 (1889); C. (Haridra) 

 aristogiton, de Niceville, Sikhim Gazetteer, p. 148, n. 236 (1894) ; id., de Niceville 

 and Martin, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxiv, pt. 2, p. 438, n. 264 (1895) ; Haridra 

 aristogiton, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 236, pi. clxxiii, figs. 1, la, male (1895) ; 

 Charaxes artstogeton [sic], Elwes, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 368, n. 214 ; 

 Haridra arittogon [sic], Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 289, n. 196 ; 

 Charaxes dexa, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 832 ; id., de Niceville, Butt. 

 India, vol. ii, p. 283, n. 574 (1886) ; Haridra desa, Moore, Lep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 235, 

 pi. clxxii, figs. 1, la, male; lb, 1c [err. e], female (1895); Haridra adamsoni, Moore, 

 Lep. Ind., vol. ii, p. 236, pi. clxxiii, figs. 2, 2a, male (1895). 



Habitat : Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra. 



The gynandromorphous specimen of G. aristogiton, Felder, here 

 figured, has been kindly lent to me by Herr Paul Mo wis, who obtained 

 it from a native collector at Darjiling in Sikkim. The true female of 

 this species has not hitherto been known, though that of G. desa, 

 Moore, which Dr. A. G. Butler and I consider to be the same species, 

 is described and figured in Mr. Moore's " Lepidoptera Indica. " I take 

 this opportunity to state my opinion, in which Captain E. Y. Watson 

 joins, than whom no one knows the butterflies of Burma better, that 

 besides G. desa, which Mr. Moore restricts to Upper Tenasserim, 

 C. adamsoni, Moore, from the same locality, is also synonymous with 

 G. aristogiton. The species, as are all the tawny Gharaxes, is variable, 

 no two specimens in my collection being precisely alike, so that there 

 is no gain to science (nor does it give expression to a real fact in nature) 

 to pick out extreme individual varieties and give them distinctive 

 specific names, more especially when, as in the present case, these 

 varieties are not restricted to well-defined geographical areas. 



In the Journ. A. S. B., vol. lxiii, pt. 2, p. 8, n. 7 (1894), I described 

 and figured on pi. iii, figs. 1, 2, a gynandromorphous example of 

 Argymds niphe, Linnaeus, from Behar, and gave a list of four specimens 

 of other Asiatic species known to me. Mr. Mowis informs me that he 

 once purchased from a soldier at Deolali, Nasik, Bombay Presidency, 

 a specimen of a Guretis now in Colonel Swinhoe's collection, which was 

 very conspicuous, as the male side was copper-coloured, the female side 

 white. He also obtained a specimen of Appias hippo, Cramer = A. hip- 

 poides, Moore, from Sikkim, which he parted with to Herr A. Botteher 

 of Berlin. I have come across other references to these monstrosities 



