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some very distinct species, ;uul travelliug eastward tlie gcii'.is has recently 
been discovered in the Island of Socotra by Prof. Balfour. It is common in 
continental India, found in Ceylon and the Andaman IsLauds, occurs through- 
out Burma, Tenassorim, and tlic Malay Peninsula, I^jastcrn Asia as far north 
as China, and through the length and breadth of tlie Malayan Archipelago, 
Its distribution in the Pacific Islands appears at i)rcscnt very limited, but it 
is found in Australia." {Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 101.) 
Charaxes polyxeiia. 
Papiliu jjoli/aena, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. liv. figs. A, B (177.5). 
Fapillo bernardus, Fabricins, Eiit. Syst. iii. 1, p. 71 (1793) ; Donovan, Ins. China, 
pi. xxxiv. (1814-). 
" N. alis fiilvis, anticis apico atris, fascia media flavii, jiosticis caudntis strigii pniictonim ocollatoruin. 
Espans. alar. 34 unc. 
" N. with fulvous wings, the anterior black at the tips with a broad pale yellow band, the posterior 
tailed with a row of black ocellated spots. Expanse of the wings ^h inches." (Donovan, 
I. c.) 
Donovan states that Fabricius described this species from the drawings of 
Mr. Jones, and adds : — " I possess a specimen in which the central fascia is 
nearly white, and is continued halfway across the posterior wings, and the 
black spots in the latter are very broad and confluent, without white in the 
centre;" thus recognizing the variable character of this species. 
In my Chinese specimens tlie male differs from the type of C/i. hindia, 
figured by Mr. Butler *, in the absence of the white fascia on upper surface 
of secondaries, and the female has a series of white spots on primaries just 
beyond the central fascia ; but both sexes agree fairly well \\-ith specimens 
under this name in the ^'ational Collection at Soutli Kensington. 
* Charaxes Jiindia, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. U9, pi. xxxvii. fig. 5, d 2 (.1872). 
" d 2 • Affinis priecedenti [C. JaUnder, Butl.], differt supra area basali clariore, fasciola discoceUu- 
lari melius espressa, lituris medianis obsoletis ; virgula in faseiam nulla ; fascia alba latiore, 
infra ramum primum medianum anticarum fulvo-tineta ; area externa anticarum latiore, 
maculis discalibus in mare majoribus, superioribus autem obsoletis, in foemina fulvis vix 
conspicuis ; fascia nigra posticarum magis maculari et multo angustiore : alte subtus multo 
pallidiores ; fascia media in auticis minus obliqua, area latiore ochracea ; area discali multo 
latiore : exp. alar. (^ , unc. 3 lin. 7 ; 5 , unc. -1 lin. 2. 
" Mr. Moore has two specimens of the female of this species, one of which is scarcely larger than 
the male ; it is a conspicuous form and may be distinguished without trouble ; the female 
has the external area of the wings much browner than in any other species with which I am 
acquainted, but this may be partially due to fading." (Bxtler, I.e.) 
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