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XYMPHALID.E. 



Charaxes fabius sulphiireus et fabius fabius, Jiothsch. § Jord. Nov. 

 Zool. vii, 1900, p. 468. 



d 1 2 • Upper side black : basal area of wings suffused with brown. 

 Fore and hind wings crossed by a conspicuous sinuous discal band 

 of sulphur-yellow spots, separate on fore, continuous on hind 



wing, and a subterminal series of 

 similar but smaller spots, often in- 

 complete towards apex of fore wiug. 

 The spots of the discal band increase 

 in size posteriorly on the fore wing, 

 the spot in interspace 1 being the 

 largest ; on the hind wing they are 

 subequal, but the spots in interspaces 



7 and 8 are conspicuously paler, 

 almost white. Fore wing, in addition, 

 with a sulphur-yellow spot beyond 

 lower apex of cell, and a costal spot 

 obliquely beyond, traversed by veins 



8 and 9. Hind wing with an outer 

 subterminal incomplete line of sul- 

 phur spots posteriorly, ending in a 

 larger blue spot at the tornal angle. 

 Underside lilacine grey ; basal area 

 with two series of broken inter- 

 rupted black, lines ; the discal band 



of spots and spots beyond apex of cell on fore wing as on the 

 upperside, but white, diffuse outwardly and margined on the inner 

 side by short black lines. This is followed by an irregular sinuous 

 transverse row of ochraceous spots surrounded by black shading, 

 crossing both fore and hind wing ; on the fore wing the lower 

 spots are margined, beyond the black, with diffuse white, and on 

 the hind wing the posterior spots are margined inwardly by white 

 lunules. The hind wing bears in addition an inner subterminal 

 series of white dots, an outer subterminal series of ochraceous 

 spots lined inwardly with black, followed by a few white spots, 

 and a posterior terminal black line. 



Exp. 6 $ 82-94 mm. (3-21 -3-7"). 



Bab. The Himalayas from Chamba to Sikhim ; Oudh ; Bhutan ; 

 Central Provinces ; W. India ; Bombay ; S. India ; Ceylon ; 

 Burma 'and Tenasserim. 



Larva. " Bluish green, with a small semicircle of white in the 

 middle of the back." {Davidson Sf Aithen.) 



Pupa. " Like that of G. {Eidepis) aihamas but uniformly green." 

 (lidem.) 



Messrs. Rothschild and Jordan have separated the Burmese 

 form as a subspecies. The discal band of spots in this form is, as 

 a rule, of a paler yellow than in the Continental form. 



Fig. 40. 



Charaxes /abuts, J . 



