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CHARAXES FABIUS (Plate 15, Fig. 1). 



Papilio Fahius, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 12 (1781). 

 Charaxes Fahius, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 52. 

 Papilio Solon, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 69 (1793). 



Male and female. Upperside blackish olive-brown : forewing with two subbasal 

 small yellow spots, and a transverse discal recurved series of seven, or eight spots, 

 the three lowest widest, a marginal row of minute spots : hindwing with a transverse 

 medial irregular yellow band, a submargmal row of small lunules and a marginal 

 row of small geminate spots, those at anal angle greenish. Underside lilac-grey, 

 dullest at base and purple-tinted externally ; both wings with white discal markings 

 as in upperside, bordered with a black inner line, and basal irregular black streaks : 

 forewing with a submarginal row of black-bordered ochreous-yellow spots, and a 

 marginal row of indistinct purple-white spaces : hindwing with a discal irregular 

 row of black-bordered yellow lunules, each surmounted by an inner purple- white and 

 a black lunule ; a marginal row of ochreous-yellow lunules, each surmounted by an 

 indented black line bordered above and beneath with purple-white. 



Expanse, $ 2|, ? 3-| inches. 



Captured at Dambool and Kandy. Not very common. {Wade.) 



Genus EULEPIS. 

 Eulepis, Dalm. in Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 80 (1820). 



Wings similar in form to Charaxes ; veins of forewing also similar ; hindwing 

 with the second subcostal branch and radial nearer the first branch ; cell open ; 

 upper and middle median branches further from lower branches, internal vein longer. 



EULEPIS SAMATHA (Plate 14, Fig. 2 a, b). 

 Charaxes Samatha, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 831. 



Male and female. Upperside dark blackish-brown, suffused with olive-brown 

 basally, a broad medial discal pale sulphur-green band crossing both wings : forewing 

 with a small subapical spot and a single or obsolete apical minute spot : hindwing 

 with a submarginal row of small white spots, and a marginal indistinct row of 

 fulvous lunules. Underside pinkish oHve-brown, discal band and subapical spots as 

 above, nacreous, and bordered inwardly by a black line: forewing with an outer 

 discal row of black lunules on a purple fascia, and basal white-bordered black streaks 

 and two small spots : hindwing with an outer discal row of deep crimson lunules 



