210 NYMPHALIDJE. 



b l . This band extended to vein 4 I Var. pleistona:v= 

 or even to vein 3 on hind I khimalara, p. 215. 



wing ( Var. Masiamis,Tp.215. 



b. Costal margin on underside of fore wing- 

 silvery white C. distanti, p. 210. 



C. Basal area on upperside of wings "black .... C. fabias, p. 217. 



237. Charaxes durnfordi, Distant, Entomologist, xvii, 1884, p. 191. 



Race nicholi (PI. "VIII, fig. 57). 



Charaxes nicholii, Grose Smith (Nymphalis), A. M. N. H. (5) xviii, 

 1886, p. 150 ; Moore (Haridra), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 246, pl. 182, 

 fig. 2 S ; de Niceville, Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soe. xii, 1899, p. 330. 



Charaxes durnfordi nicholi, JRothsch. <$• Jord. Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, 

 p. 288, pl. 6, fig. 1. 



<5 . TJpjperside brown, the basal third of fore and nearly the 

 basal half of the hind wing chestnut-brown, the remainder of 

 the fore wing dark ""brown, of the hind wing white suffused 

 inwardly with pale greenish yellow. Eore wing with a very 

 incomplete discal and a more complete postdiscal transverse series 

 of more or less crescentic white markings, followed by a few 

 terminal white specks. Hind wing : the inner margin of the 

 white area irregularly and deeply crenulate, the brown on the 

 basal half projecting along the veins into the white area ; a sub- 

 terminal row T of white-centred brown ocelli without outer rings, 

 increasing in size anteriorly, and a terminal series, often absent, 

 of slender sagittate brown markings on the veins, the points out- 

 wards, followed by an antieiliary exceedingly slender brown line. 

 Cilia, fore and hind wing, white alternated with brown. Underside 

 purplish brown ; a broad discal irregular black-edged darker 

 purple-brown sinuous band across both wings, paler on the hind 

 wing than on the fore, followed by a more or less continuous line 

 of dark lunules, and beyond it a postdiscal series of slightly 

 yellowish-brown lunular markings, bordered outwardly on fore wing- 

 by pale purple, on hind wing by the series of ocelli of the upper- 

 side showing faintly through. Antennas blackish brown finely 

 annulated with white j head, thorax and abdomen chestnut-brown ; 

 purplish brown beneath. 



$ unknown. 



Exp. <$ 100-104 mm. (3-98-4-10"). 



Hob. Recorded withm our limits from Tenasserira and the 

 Karen Hills near Taungoo. 



238. Charaxes distanti, Honrath, Bert. ent. Zeitsch. xxix, 1885, p. 277 ; 



Dist. Bhop. Malay. (App.) 1886, p. 434, pl. 36, fig. 2 tf; de N. 

 8f Martin, J. A. S. B. 1895, pt. ii, p. 438; Rothsch. $ Jord. Nov. 

 Zool. vii, 1900, p. 309. 



S . tlpperside bright ochraceous, ground-colour of terminal 

 margins of wings broadly of a darker shade. Fore wing with 

 the following chestnut-red markings : a line on each side 

 of the discocellulars, transverse small lunules or bars near 



