216 



NYMPHALID^. 



de N. Butt. lnd. ii, 1886, p. 291 ; Moore (Haridra), Lep. lnd. ii, 



1893-96, p. 243, pi. 179, figs. 1, 1 a-\ c, d 2 • 

 Charaxes hindia, Butler, Lep. 'Rvot. 1872, p. 99, pi. 37, fig. 5 ; de 



N. Butt. lnd. ii, 1886, p. 291 ; Moore (Haridra jalinder, seasonal 



form), Lep. lnd. ii, 1893-96, p. 244, pi. 180, figs. 1, 1 a, tf. 

 Charaxes agna, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 832 ; de N. Butt. lnd. ii, 



1886, p. 289. 

 Charaxes watti, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 148, pi. 15, fig. 2 ; de N. 



Butt. lnd. ii, 1886, p. 287. 

 Charaxes polyxena hierax, Bothsch. $ Jord. Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, 



p. 331. 



Race hemana. 



Charaxes bernardus, Kollar (nee Fabr.), in HiigeVs Kaschmir, iv, 2, 



1844, p. 434, pi. 11, fig. 2 rf . 

 Charaxes hemana, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 122, pi. 4, 



fio- 1 ; de N. Butt. lnd. ii, 1886, p. 283 ; Moore (Haridra), Lep. 



lnd. ii, 1893-96, p. 240, pi. 177, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b, <$ '$ . 

 Charaxes polyxena hemana, Bothsch. ty Jord. Nov. Zool. vii, 1900, 



p. 334. 



Race hierax, Felder. — 6 • Upperside rich fulvous tawny. Fore 

 wing with the discocel hilars defined with black on either side ; outer 

 portion of the wing from a little beyond midway on the costa to a 



point on the apical third of the dorsum 

 jet-black, the inner margin of the 

 black portion below vein 2 diffuse and 

 showing a tawn}^ obscure spot. Hind 

 wing with a subterminal band of black 

 spots, decreasing in size towards the 

 tornus, the apical three fused together 

 and studded with two small white 

 dots, the posterior spots separate, 

 outwardly acutely angular. Underside 

 purplish tawny, suffused with irides- 

 cent chalybeous broadly on apex and 

 along a subterminal band on the fore 

 and over the whole of the hind wing 

 except on a postdiscal oblique band 

 and along the terminal margin. Fore 

 and hind wings with the usual trans- 

 verse highly sinuous black lines ; the 

 transverse discal interspace between 

 the outer two lines somewhat irregularly margined with bright 

 ochraceous on the inner side ; postdiscal and terminal sinuous bands 

 dark ochraceous brown, the former broad on the fore, narrowing 

 posteriorly on the hind wing ; a subterminal series of white 

 dots on the hind wing, the posterior five or six each margined 

 outwardly with a blue and then a black speck. Antennae black ; 

 head, thorax and abdomen fulvous ; beneath paler, the palpi white. 

 — 2 • Upperside : tawny fulvous, paler than in the cf , the basal 

 area of both fore and hind wing with a brownish tint. Tore wing : 

 a broad white discal transverse band, the terminal portion of the 



Fig. 39. — Charaxes polyxena, 

 race hierax, $ . 



