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some very distinct species, and travelling eastward the genus has recently 
been discovered in the Island of Socotra by Prof. Balfour. It is common in 
continental India, found in Ceylon and the Andaman Islands, occurs through- 
out Burma, Tenasscrim, and the Malay Peninsula, Eastern Asia as far north 
as China, and through the length and breadth of the Malayan Arcliipelago, 
Its distribution in the Pacific Islands appears at present very limited, but it 
is found in Australia." {Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 101.) 
Charaxes polyxena. 
Papilio polyxcna, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. liv. figs. A, B (1775). 
FapUio bernardus, Fabricins, Eut. Syst. iii. 1, p. 71 (1793) ; Donovan, Ins. China, 
pi. xxxiv. (1844). 
" N. alis fulvis, anticis apicc utris, fascia media flava^ posticis caudatis strigti punctorum ocellatorum. 
Expans. alar. 85 uuc. 
" N. with fulvous wings, the anterior black at the tips with a broad pale yellow band, the posterior 
tailed with a row of black ocellated spots. Expanse of the wings ?>h inches." (Donovan, 
I. c.) 
Donovan states that Fabricius described this species from the drawings of 
Mr. Jones, and adds : — " I possess a specimen in which the central fascia is 
nearly white, and is continued halfway across the posterior wings, and the 
black spots in the latter are very broad and confluent, without white in the 
centre ;" thus recognizing the variable character of this species. 
In my Chinese specimens the male differs from the type of C/i. hind/a, 
figured by Mr. Butler *, in the absence of the white fascia on upper surface 
of secondaries, and the female lias a series of white spots on primaries just 
beyond the central fascia ; but both sexes agree fairly well mth specimens 
under this name in the National Collection at South Kensington. 
* Charaxes hhidia, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. !i9, pi. xxxvii. fig. 5, 2 (1872). 
" c? ? . Affinis pniDcedenti [C. JaUnder, Eutl.], diftert supra area basali clariore, fasciola discoceUu- 
lari melius expressa, lituris modianis obsolctis ; virgulu in fasciam nulla ; fascia alba latiore, 
infra ramum primum medianum anticarum fulvo-tincta ; area externa anticarum latiore, 
maculis discalibus in mare majoribus, superioribus autcm obsoletis, in fcemina fulvis vix 
conspicuis ; fascia nigra posticarnm magis maculari et multo angustiore : alae subtus multo 
pallidiores ; fascia media in anticis minus obliqua, area latiore ochracea ; area discali multo 
latiore : exp. alar. cJ , unc. .'5 lin. 7 ; 5 , unc. 4 lin. 2. 
" Mr. Moore has two specimens of the female of this species, one of which is scarcely larger than 
the male ; it is a conspicuous form and may be distinguished without trouble ; the female 
has the external area of the wings much browner than in any other species with wliich I am 
r.cquainted, but this may be partially due to fading." (Butler, I. c.) 
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