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Gayoe collectors thought this species in some numbers, it may perhaps 

 be less rare in the north of Sumatra. No female has been obtained. 

 The male is fond of faeces on forest roads ; also small pools and moist 

 places on roads, especially if there are any Tierinse assembled to suck 

 up the moisture, with whom the big Charaxes alwaj^s associates. In such 

 spots will be found sitting in the hottest sun perhaps half a hundred or 

 more Catopsilias and Applets hippo, Cramer, and amongst them one 

 Charaxes delphis, numbers of similai'ly-coloured butterflies evidently 

 affording mutual protection. Dr. Martin's Javan collector Saki in conse- 

 quence of this characteristic used to call C. delphis the " Koepoe Raja," 

 because it sat amongst the Pierinte like a Raja surrounded by his 

 followers. C. delphis is not restricted only to big jungle, but is found on 

 roads far from the forest, if only there are assembled the protecting 

 Pierlnse. Dr. Martin notes that in 1886 he gave up collecting for 

 some time, till in August, 1887, when on his way to pay a medical 

 visit at the Kloempang Estate, he saw at five o'clock in the evening a 

 fine specimen of Q. delphis, which was seeking a comfortable night's 

 lodging under the roof of a tobacco shed. As Dr. Martin was on 

 horseback he could not catch the butterfly, but on shewing it to a 

 passing Chinese coolie this man was so clever as to kill it without any 

 damage by throwing a piece of wood at it. Dr. Martin took it home in 

 his note bock, and from that day commenced a new collection on pins, 

 which is now in the Royal Museum at Munich, and of course includes 

 this specimen which instigated his commencing to re-collect, and to 

 which may also be due the production of this paper. 



254. *Charaxes (Eulepis) schreireri, Godart. 



Dr. Hagen informed Dr. Martin that he obtained this rare species 

 from his Cayoe collectors. It would appear that the north-western 

 boundary of our area is the head-quarters of the genus in Sumatra, 

 as the Gayoes always brought in three or four times as many speci- 

 mens of Charaxes as the Battaks did. C. schreiberi probably does occur 

 in Sumatra, as it is cei'tainly found in the Malay Peninsula, Java and 

 Borneo. It is singular, however, that Dr. Hagen should have omitted 

 it from both his papers. Dr. Martin picked up from the ground two 

 forewings without body of this species in Fort Canning in the middle 

 of Singapore. It is most remarkable how frequently the only record 

 we have of this species is from single wings picked up in a similar way. 

 It would seem to be that C. schreiberi is greatly persecuted by birds. 



255. Charaxes (Eulepis) kadenii, Felder. 



Dr. Wallace obtained the first known specimen of C. kadenii in 



