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NYMPHALID^. 
Mr. Elwes, referring to Ch. hindia in his paper on the Lepidoptera of 
Sikkim (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1888, p. 369), considers it to be synonymous 
with Ch. j)leistoanax, Feld. (Reise Nov., Lep. iii. p. 443, 1867), and Ch. jalinder, 
Butler (Lep. Exot. p. 98, pi. xxxvii. fig. 4). He states that in Sikkim it 
occurs commonly from April to October up to 3000 feet, and concludes his 
remarks by suggesting that when a large number of specimens of these tawny 
Chara-xes from different localities are compared, the present number of species 
will be greatly reduced. 
I have one male specimen from Omei-shan and a female from Moupin, 
Western China. 
Charaxes narcaeus. 
Nymphalis narcceus, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, i., Nymph, pi. i. figs. 1, 4 (1854). 
Charaxes narcceus, var. thibetanus, Oberthiir, Etud. d'Entom. xv. p. 11^ pi. ii. fig. 10 
(1891). 
Charaxes mandarinus, Felder, Reise Nov., Lep. iii. p. 437 (1867). 
Charaxes satyrina, var. menedemus, Oberthiir, torn. cit. xv. p. 13, pi. ii. fig. 9 (1891). 
" Upperside white, tinted with green on the anterior wiug, with yellow on the posterior. Anterior 
wing with the base clouded with light brown. The costal and outer margins, and a transverse 
narrow band sinuate on its outer edge and parallel to, and at a short distance from, the outer 
margin, brown ; a black longitudinal band, marking the course of the median nervure and its 
third nervule, joins the transverse band with the clouded space at the base, and is itself 
joined to the costal margin by a black line across the cud of the cell. Posterior wing with 
two tails ; the base and the upperside of the abdominal fold light brown ; crossed beyond 
tlic middle to the anal angle by a band of brown, nearly continuous with the band of the 
anterior wing ; the outer margin and a row of lunular spots near it brown ; the anal angle 
marked by two black spots, one oval with a crimson centre, the other round centred with 
white, both margined with light blue, below with orange. Underside as above, except that 
botli wings are tinted with green, that the margins and bands are bordered with silvery white, 
that the bases of the wings are unclouded, that there is a rufous band on the posterior wing, 
which commences on the costal margin near the base, and passing down the upperside of the 
abdominal fold joins the transverse band at the anal angle, and that the lunular spots near 
tlie outer margin and the two spots at the anal angle, described above, are here represented 
by eight small round black spots. Expanse .'Jyij inches." {Tlewitson. 1. c.) 
Var. menedemus, Ohertliiir. Is said to differ from the type in being smaller and more 
linlliaiitly coloured ; but the most important character appears to bo the shorter and more 
obtuse tails. 
This form was taken by M. Dubcrnard at Tse-kou in AVestcrn China. 
My collectors failed to meet with it in any part of China that they visited. 
