208 NYMPH ALULE. 



Genus CHARAXES. 



Nymphalis, Latr. {nee Linn.) Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins. xiv, 180«5, p. 82. 

 Oharaxes, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv, 1816, p. 18 ; de N. Butt. 



Ind. ii, 1886, p. 269; Moore, Lep. Lid. ii, 1893-96, p. 248; 



JRothsch. 8f Jordan, Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, p. 281. 

 Haridra, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 30 : id. Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, 



p. 229. 



Type, C. jason, Linn., from Barbary. 



Range. Palaaarctic, Ethiopian, Indo-Malayan, and Inclo-Austra- 

 lian Regions. 



J2." There is a great diversity in the shape of the outline of 

 the wings of Oharaxes. The outer margin (term en) of the fore 

 wing varies from being nearly straight to being deeply concave. . . . 

 The hind wing is abdominally always somewhat, often considerably, 

 longer than costally, and has in most species a triangular form." 

 (JRothscJi. 4" Jord.) 



Typical fore wing: costa widely arched, serrated; apex pro- 

 duced ; termen concave above vein 2, straight below ; tornus 

 rounded ; dorsum straight ; cell less than half length of wing, 

 slenderly closed ; upper discocellular very short, middle twice 

 length of upper, lower long, erect ; vein 4 from lower apex of 

 cell, veins 8 and 9 out of 7, approximate at base, emitted from 

 basal half of vein 7, 10 and 11 free. Hind wing: costa widely 

 arched, apex very broadly rounded ; termen straight, more or less 

 scalloped, produced at veins 2 and 4 into long slender tails ; tornal 

 angle well-marked ; dorsum long, longer than costal margin, straight ; 

 cell narrow, less than half length of wing, slenderly closed, lower 

 discocellular very oblique ; veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of cell, veins 

 5, 6, 7 and 8 at base nearly equidistant from one another. Antennae 

 about half length of fore wing, club long and gradual ; palpi obliquely 

 porrect, third joint short ; eyes naked ; body large and robust. 



The venation varies somewhat in the Indian forms of the genus, 

 especially as regards the point of origin of veins 8 and 9 in the 



fore wing. 



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Key to the forms of Charaxes. 



A. Basal area of wings on upperside bright I C. dumfordi, race 



chestnut-brown ) nicholi, p. 210. 



B. Basal area of wings on upperside fulvous or 



ochraceous. 

 a. Costal margin on underside of fore wing 

 not silvery white. 

 a\ With a postdiscal more or less lunular 

 transverse band on upperside of fore 

 wing. 

 a' 2 . Ground-colour on underside of wings 

 purplish tawny. 

 a 3 . A transverse discal short lunular 



black line on upperside of both \ C. polyxena, race 

 fore and hind wing ) he.nana. p. 217. 



