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costal margin shorter ; cell imperfectly closed by a very slender thread ; precostal 

 curved towards the end ; with a short tail from the upper median veinlet only. 

 Body extremely robust; antennge more slender; palpi porrect, projected in front of 

 the head; forelegs of the male longer than in typical Charaxes, femur slender, 

 sparsely clothed with long fine hairs beneath, tibia thickened and hairy at the base, 

 tarsus compact; forelegs of the female longer than in typical Charaxes, scaly, 

 tarsus stouter. Sexes dimorphic. Type H. Psaphon. 



Caterpillar. — Slug-shaped ; with four vertical elongated spinous fleshy 

 processes on the head, and two short naked depressed pointed processes on anal 

 segment. 



Chrysalis. — Thick, oval, abbreviated, dorsum well arched ; head obtuse. 



Egg. — Unknown. 



HARIDRA PSAPHON (Plate 168, fig. 1, la, b, c, ^ ? ). 



C/mraxes PsopTiore, Westwood, Cabinet of Oriental Ent. p. 43, pi. 21, fig. 1,2, $ (1848). Butler, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 636. de Nic^ville, Butt, of India, etc. ii. p. 284 (1886). 

 Nymplialis Psaphon, Westwood, Gen. I). Lep. p. 309 (1850). 

 Haridra Psaphon, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 30, pi. 15, fig. 2, (J (1880). 

 Haridra Serendiba, Moore, id. p. 30, pi. 15, fig. 3, ? (1880). 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark fulvous-red. Forewing with the exterior half 

 purpurescent-black, forming a broad marginal band, its inner edge being erect and 

 sinuous ; a discocellular duplex black mark, and some very indistinct slender blackish 

 discoidal streaks. Hindwing with a very broad apical and marginal band, which 

 sinuously attenuates hindward, and terminates in two small white-marked anal spots; 

 a short sinuous black streak from the costa contiguous to the band. Underside 

 fulvous-brown, washed with purplish-grey. Both wings crossed by three basal, and 

 two discal zigzag black lines with pale borders. Forewing also with a submarginal 

 fascia composed of more or less defined small blackish dentate inner spots and outer 

 diffused peai-ly-white dentate luuules. Hindwing also with a submarginal darker 

 blackish-grey lunular fascia, and outer series of small black-tipt pearly-white dentate 

 spots. 



Female. Upperside deep fulvous-yellow. Forewing with a transverse medial 

 discal purplish-white band, which shows, by semi-transparency, the discal sinuous 

 line of the underside, and is edged inwardly by a broken black line which is more or 

 less inwardly diffused anteriorly ; outer border of the wing broadly black, with its 

 inner edge sinuous, and bearing a shght fulvous lunular posterior inner streak. 

 Hindtcing with a short medial discal purplish-white band edged inwardly by a slender 

 black sinuous line ; submarginal black band broad, as in the male, but broken and 

 macular posteriorly, and with a distinct white lunule on each portion between all the 



