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on the hind wing there is a snbtenninal series of internally white- 

 bordered black spots followed by an obscure ochraceons terminal 

 line, and above the tornal angle a slender transverse black line 

 from vein 1 to dorsal margin. 



Exp. 6 2 64-85 mm. (2-5-3-35"). 



Hob. The Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikhim ; hills of Central 

 India and Eastern Grhats ; Western and Southern India ; Ceylon ; 

 Assam ; Cachar ; Burma ; Tenasseriin ; extending far into the 

 Malayan Subregion. 



Larva. " Elongated, slug-shaped, dark green ; head large, wide 

 and surmounted by four divergent curved fleshy spinous processes ; 

 anal segment with two short naked terminal points ; the segments 

 with an oblique yellowish-white lateral stripe, most prominent on 

 the 7th, 9th and 11th segments, and beneath these a lower series 

 of small white spots." (Moore.) 



Pujm. " Thick, cylindrically oval ; green streaked with white ; 

 dorsum and thorax convex ; head broad, truncated, obtusely 

 pointed in front." (Moore.) 



" The species exhibits considerable seasonal variation, especially 

 in South and North India ; for we find that the specimens obtained 

 in March and April in North and North-west India have the discal 

 band much widened and the underside pale, while the individuals 

 flying in May and June have the band narrower, and those found 

 in Sikhim from August to November have it narrowest. In South 

 India there are two well distinguished forms, the one correspond- 

 ing to the spring form of North India, but with the band less 

 broad and representing most likely the dry-season brood, respec- 

 tively a form that inhabits dry districts, and the second having the 

 band narrower and the underside brighter in tint. In Burma 

 broad-banded, pale specimens occur also, besides narrow-banded 



ones The differences exhibited by the pale and the 



narrow-banded forms have often been treated as being of specific 

 value ; for instance, the pale South Indian form has been described 

 as E. agrarius, while the darker form is referred to as E. samatha; 

 the North Indian spring form has been designated as E. hamasta, 

 the form May to June as E. bharata, and the summer form as 



E. athamas As the species is so susceptible to climatical 



differences, it is self-evident that the individuals caught in the 

 same month at the same locality, but in different yesirs, are not 

 always identical in the width of the band, and that, further, in 

 different localities of the same country one may meet with some- 

 what different forms of athamas in one year, and identical forms 

 in another year. This one must bear in mind in working with 

 the individuals of athamas from a certain country." (Rothschild &f 

 Jordan.) 



Messrs. Bothschild and Jordan in their monograph of Charaxes 

 and allied Prionopterous genera divide the forms of athamas 

 occurring within our limits into two subspecies — (1) E. athamas 

 athamas, the Northern and Eastern race, with three seasonal 

 forms ; and (2) E. athamas agrarius, the Southern Indian and 



