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RIIOPA LOCERA MA LA YA NA . 



This is a so-called *■* variety/' or more correctly designated 11 local race," of C.fahius, Fabr,, 

 a species found in Continental India and Ceylon. Several other of these closely allied forms 

 or w local races" have been described,* and although the exigencies of cabinet arrangement 

 and systeD8itiS BOm^ticlnmn may ivquiiv that thesis forms should U j tr;ip;iUh- of refcrcuot U11&6I 

 distinct names, it is surely disguising a certain fact in Nature if we do not admit that they 

 must have had a common progenitor, and that their fixity in local races or species is due to 

 dispersion and isolation. (When we use these two words a difference of the surrounding 

 conditions is naturally postulated.) Of course other local and somewhat intermediate races 

 may have failed to sufficiently establish themselves, and have early succumbed to unfavourable 

 conditions. As 1 i i Lime n b ac h o bse r ved f " E very pa vin g- stone in Oottingeu is a proof that 

 species, or rather whole genera, of creatures must have disappeared/' f 



2. Charaxes schreiberi. (Tab. XIII., tig, 2 <? .) 



Nympkalu Schreibtr, Godart, Euc. Meth. ix. Suppl. p. 825 (1823). 

 t'aphut Schrcibfrs, Horsf. Cat, Lep, E. I. 0. t. 0, f. 8, 8« (1629). 



Nymphalis Schrriberi y Horsf. it Moore, Cat. Lop. Mas. E. I. C. i. p. 205, n. 418 (1857 ). 



Gharax** Sckrtiberi, Druce, Proc. Zool. Sac. X878, p + n« 2; Snellen, Tijd* Ent. xix. p. 147, n> 20 (1876) ; 

 Butl. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. vol. i. p. 589, n. 8 (1877) ; Godm. & Salv. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, 

 p. 640, n. 22. 



Male. Wings above dark fuscous, tbe basal third somewhat tinged with bluish ; disk of both wings 

 crossed, by a central discal white fascia, commencing on anterior wings immediately beneath hist median 

 nervule and terminating on posterior wings in a subacute point near the first median nervule ; on anterior 

 wings this fascia is narrowly margined with pale bluish from beneath the third median nervule, and from 

 the same nervule is outwardly very broadly and somewhat dentately margined with the name colour; 

 on posterior win^s the whiU- fascia terminates in a pale bluish fascia which is inwardly straight and 

 ouhvfirdly emur^iiiaie, ami nv,s>r- ihc whi^ trrminntimj wry narrowly at anal an^le ; anterior wings with 

 a white spot placed between the discoulal uervules, and posterior win^s with a submarginal series of small 

 whitish spots placed between the uervules, two between the third median nervule and submedian nervure, 

 and a pale bluish narrow submarginal hut brokeu fascia commencing at about discoidal nervule, which 

 become oehraeeous at anal angle : abdominal margin pah greyish at base. Wings beneath pale silvery 

 white ; both wings crossed by a dull oehraeeous fascia margined with blue ; on anterior wings this fascia 

 crosBes the end of eell, where it is outwardly bifurcate and terminates, obtusely rounded a little beneath 

 the third median nervule ; on posterior wings the fascia commences at costa and terminates a little beyond 

 third median nervule ; anterior wings with two dark bluish spots in cell ; an irregularly shaped carmine 

 spot beyond tbe central fascia between the lower discoidal and the second median nervules ; a submarginal 

 aeries of somewhat ltinulate spots placed between the uervules, which are obsolete near apex, and suffused 

 with black near outer angle, tbe lower three being preceded by a lunulate dark line, and the outer margin 

 broadly infuscated ; posterior wings with a broad submarginal pale fuscous fascia, on tbe inner margin of 

 which arc a scries of carmine lunulate spots, the upper three of which have a pale area and are preceded by 

 a continuous bluish line, aud the lower and larger three arc inwardly margined with white and hUn.-, the 

 one at anal angle being preceded by a transverso dark bluish streak, and a marginal oehraeeous fascia r 1 In 

 bordiTs of which are bluish. Body more or less concolorous with wings j posterior and intermediate 

 femora much suffused with blackish shadings; tibia 1 and tarsi oehraeeous. 



* One Irom Celebes and two from unknown localities, 

 t -Anthropological Treatises/ Engl, transl. p, 28» [1680), 



