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slender discocellular thread, which joins the median just before the middle branch ; 
submedian and internal vein wide apart, internal vein short. Body short; thorax 
elongated, broad, very robust, woolly at the base; head large, woolly, not tufted ; 
eyes prominent, naked; palpi large, obliquely porrected, broad and flat in front, the 
tip elevated much above the vertex, and extending forward, apart at the base, but 
approximating at the tip, thickly scaled, second joint above clothed with short erect 
hairs, apical joint almost smooth, conical ; forelegs of male minute, scaly, and slightly 
airy ; forelegs of female scaly, femur very slightly hairy on the inner side, tarsus 
dilated towards the tip, which is rounded off in front, each joint with two short 
blunt spines beneath; middle and hind legs rather short, robust, finely scaled, 
tibiz flat beneath, each side armed «with a row of short fine spines, tarsi armed 
with four series of short spines, the terminal lateral spine on each side being the 
longest, claws moderate, inner lobe short, outer lobe acute, curved; antenne rather 
short, stout, straight, the club elongated, thick and truncate at the tip, with a slight 
treble carina on its inner edge. Type, C. Jasius. 
CaTERPILLAR.—Slug-shaped ; head with four vertical short spiny processes ; 
anal seement with two short depressed points. 
CurysaLis.—Abbreviated, thick, almost oval, smooth, dorsum arched; head 
very obtuse. . 
Ecc.—Large, globular; apex flattened, broad. 
CHARAXES FABIUS (Plate 183, figs. 1, la, b, c,d, g, 2; larva and pupa). 
Papilio Fabius, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 12 (1781). Mant. Ins. ii. p. 7 (1787). Ent. Syst, iii., i., 
p. 64 (1793). 
Nymphalis Fabius, Godart, Encycl. Méth. ix. p. 353 (1823). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep., p. 309 
(1851). 
Charazxes Fabius, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 52 (1869). Kirby, Catal. Butt. p, 268 (1871). 
Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 29, pl. 15, fig. 1 (1880). de Nicéville, Butt. of India, etc., ii, p. 280 
(1886). 
Paphia Fabia, Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, pl. 12, fig. 3, larva (1846). 
Papilio Solon, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii., i, p. 69 (1798). Jones, Icones, pl. 63, fig. 2, . 
Papilio Euphanes, Esper, Ausl. Schmett. pl. 59, fig. 1, ¢ (1785-90). 
Imaco.—Male. Upperside blackish olive-brown, palest basally. Forewing with 
a transverse discal recurved series of eight yellow spots increasing in size from 
near the costa, the upper spots mostly rounded, the lower spots being broad and 
irregularly-quadrate with uneven exterior ; also a yellow subcostal spot between the 
lower subcostal veinlets and upper radial, and a smaller spot outside end of the 
cell above the upper median veinlet ; a marginal lower row of minute yellow spots 
which are more or less obsolescent anteriorly. Hindwing with a transverse discal 
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