1897] Indu- and Austro-Malayan Regions. 553 



from Asia. In Horsfield and Moore's Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, vol. 

 i, p. 158, n. 327 (1857), a " hermaphrodite " specimen of Biadema 

 [Hypolimnas] bolina, Linnaeus, is recorded from Canara in South 

 India. Dr. A. G. Butler in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 172, wood- 

 cut n. 1, p. 173, describes and figures a " hermaphrodite " Banais (Nasuma) 

 ismare, Cramer, the left-hand side being a male (B. ismare), the right- 

 hand side being a female (B. ismareola, Butler). Mr. H. J. Elwes in 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1888, p. 408, n. 357, records a gynandromor- 

 phous specimen of Bellas descombesi, Boisduval, from Sikkim. Dr. 

 E. Haase in Iris, vol. i, p. 36, pi. iii, fig. 2 (1888), describes and figures 

 a hermaphrodite specimen of Banais (Nasuma) ismare, Cramer, from 

 Ceram. Herr Eduard Gr. Honrath in Berl. Ent. Zeitsch., vol. xxxii, 

 p. 499, woodcut fig. A (1888), figures from Minahassa (Celebes), 

 Gharaxis affinis, Butler, the left-hand side being a male (0. affinis), 

 and the right-hand side a female (0. wallacei, Butler). This speci- 

 men is referred to in Dr. Staudinger's Ex. Schmett., p. 168 (1886). 

 Mr. J. H. Leech in Batfc. from China, Japan, and Corea, p. 436, pi. 

 xxxiv, fig. 14 (1893), describes and figures a partially gynandrous 

 example of Golias hyale, Linnaeus, from Japan ; and at page 441, pi. 

 xxxv, fig. 4, of the same work, a gynandrous Gonepteryv rhamni, 

 Linnaeus, from Wa-shan in Western China. Finally, Herr Egon 

 Kretzschmar in Iris, vol. vi, p. 160 (1893), records a hermaphrodite 

 specimen of Lethe mehara, Moore, from " Hindostan." 



9. Charaxes (Haridra) staudingeri, Rothschild. 



C. staudingeri, Kothschild, Iris, vol. vi, p. 349, n. 2 (1894); idem, id., Nov. 

 Zool., vol. ii, pi. viii, fig. 2, male (1895); id., Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., 

 Zoology, vol. xxv, p. 389, n. 113 (1896) ; 0. durnfordi staudingeri, Fruhstorfer, Ent. 

 Nach., vol. xxiii, p. 236 (1897). 



Habitat : Java (Rothschild, Butler, Fruhstorfer, and coll. de NicevilJe). 



Expanse : cT, 35 to 4-0 inches. 



Description: Male. Upperside, both wings differ from Messrs. 

 Grose Smith and Kirby's* and Mr. Moore's f figures of the same sex of 

 C. nicholii, Grose Smith, from East Pegu, Burma, in having the ground- 

 colour throughout dark ferruginous-brown, instead of dark brown at the 

 base only with the outer half of the forewing blue-black. Forewing has 

 both series of lunular discal white spots smaller, the inner series more 

 or less obsolete save the two anteriormost spots ; the yellowish-white 

 longitudinal band extending nearly half-way along the inner margin 

 in G. nicholii is reduced in G. staudingeri to a comma-shaped white spot 

 in continuation of the outer discal series of spots ; and there are no 



* Rhopalocera Exotica, pi. Charaxes ii, figs. 1, 2, male (1887). 



f Lepidoptera Indica, p. 246, vol. ii, pi. clxxxii, fig. 2, male (1895). 



