214 ^YMPHALID/E. 



242. Charaxes psaphon (PL VIII, fig. 56), Westwood, Cab. Orient. 

 Ent. 1848, p. 43, pi. 21, figs. 1, %<$; Moore (Haridra), Lep. Ceyl. 

 i, 1880, p. 30, pi. 15, %.2cJ; de N. Butt. 2nd. ii, 1886, p. 284 ; 

 Moore (Haridra), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 230, pi. 168, figs. 1, 

 1 a-\ c, J 2 5 Rothsch. 8? Jord. Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, p. 336. 

 Haridra serendib, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 30, pi. 15, fig. 3 $ . 



Race imna. 



Charaxes imna, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 122, pi. 4, fig. 2 ; 



de N Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 285 ; Davidson <§• Aitken, Jour. 



Bomb. N. H. Soc. v, p. 278, pi. A, figs. 4, 4 «, larva & pupa; Moore 



(Haridra), Lep. Ind. ii, 1893-96, p. 231, pi. 169, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, 



<5 $ j larva & pupa. 

 Charaxes psaphon imna, Rothsch. fy Jord. Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, 



p. 337. 



(5 . Upperside deep reddish fulvous. Fore wing : a short bar 

 defining the discocellulars and the apical half jet-black. Hind 

 wing : a short sinuous black line from the costa to vein 7, a broad 

 posteriorly much narrower subterminal black patch from apex 

 of wing to interspace 3, with a black detached spot below it in 

 interspace 4, and two inwardly white-margined black spots at 

 tornus ; the fulvous terminal margin beyond the black patch very 

 narrow at apex, gradually widening to the tail at apex of vein 4. 

 Underside purplish brown, suffused with a shining chalybeous tint 

 in parts. Fore and hind wings crossed transversely by a number 

 of highly sinuous fine dark purple lines more or less narrowly 

 margined with white ; the interspace between the outer two of 

 these lines forms an irregular discal band, bordered outwardly 

 towards the tornal area in the fore wing, and along its whole length 

 in the hind wing, by a dark reddish-brown shade ; this is exteriorly 

 defined on the latter wing by a broad dark purplish-black line, 

 beyond which is a minute row of white, succeeded by a row of 

 black dots ; terminal portion of both fore and hind wing ochraceous 

 brown. — $ . Upperside : ground-colour similar ; a broad slightly 

 oblique white discal band transversely crossing fore wing and 

 continued on hind wing to vein 6, posteriorly both on fore and 

 hind wing suffused with pale fulvous, with some of the dark 

 markings of the underside showing through on the white ground 

 as pale blue lunules ; the broad black terminal portion of fore 

 wing and the black subterminal patch on the hind wing much as 

 in the 6 , but the former with a fulvous diffuse spot near the 

 tornus, the latter continued in detached spots to the tornal angle 

 and traversed by a series of small white spots ; the terminal 

 margin of the hind wing dark reddish brown ; the tail at apex of 

 vein 4 spatulate. Underside paler than in the c? j but similarly 

 crossed by several highly sinuous dark purple lines ; the discal 

 band pale yellow, the dark shading beyond it inwardly bordered 

 with yellow, forming a sinuous band from apex of fore to tornus 

 of hind wing; the dark reddish-brown terminal margin is on 

 the Fore wing traversed by an obscure ochraceous line and on the 



