LWjVAlJH'ERA MALA YA \'A . 



101 



abdominal margin pale as in male* Wings beneath a little darker and more oekraeeous than in male ; 

 other markings generally tbe same. 



Exp. wings t J 05 tnillim. ; 5 63 millim. 



Hah. — Malay Peninsula ; Province Wellcsley {colls. Dist. and Saiier) ; Malacca {Pinwill — Brit- Mus.); 

 Singapore (Westw.J— Java (Westw.*) — Borneo (Druce). 



Genua CHABAXES. 



charters, Ochsenlieimcr, Schmctt, Eur. iv. p. 18 (1816); Fold. Neues Lop. p. 89 Moore, Lep. Ceyl, 



i. p. 28 (1881). 

 Eribaa^ Hubn. Vera. bek. Scmnett. p. 46 (1810). 



luth'jns, Dulm. in Billb. Enum. Ins. p. 80 (1820); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 29 {1881 u 

 XymjMi*, Westw. (nee. Latr.), Gen. Diurn. Lep. p, 30ft (1850)* 

 Harulm, Moore, Lop. Ceyl. i. p. 80 (1881), 



Anterior wings Bubfcriangular, the costal margin arched and convex, the apex elongate ly produced and 

 rounded or subacute, the outer margin deeply concave and slightly and irregularly waved, the inner margin 

 nearly straight. First and second subcostal ncrvuies emitted close together near end of cell, third a short 

 distance beyond end of cell and extending to apex, where it is Blightly rounded and convex, fourth and fifth 

 bifurcating at about one-third beyond end of cell, the fourth suddenly deflexed and slightly concave near 

 apex. Upper disco-cellular short and angled, the lower slender and curved. Median nervules situate wide 

 apart, the first strongly curved and rounded near base. Posterior wings subovate, the costal margin 

 strongly curved and convex, the outer margin convex, regularly and distinctly waved and produced in 

 more or less well-developed narrow caudate prolongations at apices of first and thud median nervules 

 (in some specimens the last is either but rudimentary or practically obsolete). Abdominal margin strongly 

 and convrxly undulated at base, and then obliquely divergent to anal angle. Costal nervure strongly 

 curved and extending to apex; precostal nervine subereet, its apex more or less curved; bases of subcostal 

 nervules and discoidal nervule about equally wid*- apart: diseoidal cell imperfectly closed at apex with a 

 more or less aborted and indistinct disco-cellular nervule (in some specimens this is practically obsolete, 

 and the cell completely open). First median nervule htrongly curved near base (in some specimens the 

 tirst and second median nemiles are wider apart than tin* jocund nnd thirds Jiody short : thorax very 

 robust ; antenna) stout and prominently clavate at apex. 



The genus Charaxes, from its wide distribution, and the beauty of its species, combined 

 with their strength of wing and body, forms one of the most interesting genera of the 

 Nijtitpkaliftw. 



One species is found in Europe, round the shores of the Mediterranean, which has a 

 very close ally in an Abyssinian species. The genus also inhabits Eastern, Western, and 

 the warmer portions of Southern Africa. It is apparently in Western Tropical Africa that 

 Chantxes is found in its maximum of size, beauty, and abundance of species, though the neigh- 

 bourhood of Delagoa was recently pronounced by Mr.Hewilsun to In' th. hi-ad-nnai-tors" of the 

 genus. f Madagascar possesses some very distinct species, and travelling eastward the genus 



* Gfi». Dunn. Lep. p. 805. 



i EnL M^utli. Mag. xiv. p. 81. In estimating wbnt i& really the "head-quarters 11 of a gonns, wo may apply the 

 axiom of that exee&eTlt Buuxunologisl, Mr. J, A- Allen, vi;. : — »■ The inrtfi'hl t-pucies ul'a ^ronp Itft'iiiis, nubfoiuily, ut family 

 an ihv cjihi- may lift arc iV.micl v.'hin> ihv croup to which llit>y Kt i vt-rally Lt-lmiir tenches its highlit development, or \rli£-re 

 it litis what may hi: tinned its centre of liistriLutiou " illulL U.S, Geol. & Geogr, Surv. ii. p. 810). Tho&e conditions ore, 

 for Cknraxeti fulfilled in Western Tropical Africa. 



February 29, 18«8, 2 i> 



