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LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 
HARIDRA HIPPONAX (Plate 178, figs. 1, la, 3 9). 
Charaxes Hipponax, Felder, Reise Novara, Lep. iii. p. 443, male only (1867). Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. 
1870, p. 120. de Nieéville, Butt. of India, etc. ii. p. 290 (1886). 
Charaxes Hierax (female only), Felder, l.c. p. 442. 
Charaves Khimalara (female only), Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 97, 9. 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside dark fulvous. Forewing with the outer border broadly 
black ; a transverse discal white band extending to near or to the lower median 
veinlet, this band being comparatively narrower and more irregular in its course 
than in H. Jalinder, its upper end generally composed of the two outer or lower 
spots above the radial, the crossing veins also being black; the black discocellular 
duplex streak more diffused and the inner-bordering sinuous line of the white band 
more thickly defined ; the submarginal row of fulvous spots obsolescent or obsolete. 
Hindwing with a short upper discal thickly-defined black sinuous line, which is 
outwardly diffused with white and crossed by black veins; the submarginal black 
macular band broad and continuous to the anal spots, each portion generally with 
a white central speck. Underside pale rufescent olive-brown, the bordering inter- 
spaces between the discal sinuous lines, and less so of the subbasal lines, pale 
yeliowish-ochreous ; the outer borders with the normal lilacine-grey washed markings. 
Female. Upperside most like female of H. Hierar, the basal area of forewing 
and the hindwing darker, being dusky brownish-fulvous. Forewing with the discal 
bluish-white band somewhat narrower, the outer series of whitish spots smaller. 
Hindwing with short upper discal white band, and broad black submarginal macular 
band with white lunate central marks. (Described from Felder’s type of female 
Mierax, in the collection of Mr. W. Rothschild.) 
Expanse, d 33, 2 4 inches. 
Hasirat.—Assam ; Sylhet; Khasia Hills; Naga Hills. 
Variety (Plate 178, fig. 1, b, c)—In the Naga Hill specimens, which are 
somewhat smaller, being only 3} inches in expanse, the discal band on the forewing 
is comparatively narrower, and is either white, as in typical specimens, or it is of a 
more or less pale fulvous-white, and, in some, is nearly of the same depth of tint as 
the basal area, which latter is also somewhat darker in tint. 
Disrrisution.—Felder’s type is from Assam. Specimens from Shillong are in 
Mr. P. Crowley’s collection. Mr. W. B. Farr took it in Sylhet. Specimens from 
the Khasia Hills, taken in October by Rey. W. A. Hamilton, are in Mr. W. Rothschild’s 
collection. Several specimens of the male of the variety from Naga Hills are in 
Mr. P. Crowley’s collection. 
Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 178, fig. 1 is from a male specimen 
identical with Felder’s type. Fig. 1a is from the type female erroneously assigned 
by Felder to H. Hierax.. Figs. 1, b, c, are from the Naga Hills variety. 
