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CHARMION. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
aurivittatus 
cameroni. 
vimana. 
ladana. 
zca. 
lativiltus. 
af finis. 
inaequalis. 
badia. 
batchianus. 
edit us. 
ficulnea. 
leucogra- 
pha. 
queda. 
nib ana. 
C. aurivittatus Mr. (164 c) is allied to dhanada, but at the lower end of the central band of the 
forewing it has yet a deep yellow spot near the anal angle, and the fringes of the hindwings are not speckled, 
but uniformly brown; Upper Burmah, according to Swinhoe also from the Andamans. — cameroni Dist., 
from Perak, differs in the band of the forewing crossing the cell more narrowly (% of the length of the 
costa), whereas in aurivittatus it crosses it in the width of 1 / 5 of the length of the costa. The yellow band of 
the forewing shows a uniform (in aurivittatus a more irregular) distal edge. — In vimana Fruhst., from the 
Kina-Bain in Borneo, all the spots and bands of the forewing are broader. 
C. ladana Btlr. (164 d), from Perak; here the golden yellow band extends quite uniformly and smoothly 
defined from behind the centre of the costa quite close to the anal angle; the ground-colour above and beneath 
is a uniform dark brown. 
C. zea Swh. The upper surface is somewhat like that of dhanada , the discal band of the forewing, 
however, is shortened and quadrangular, the under surface is more like that of af finis (164 d), and the small 
subapieal spots above are here linear and connected with each other. Described according to a single $ from 
Sikkim, where also dhanada occurs. 
C. lafivittus Elw. (164 c, d) is at once recognisable by the darker, more sepia-brown ground-colour 
and the bright golden yellow spots of the fore wing forming a complete broad confluent band. From the Kina- 
Balu in Borneo. 
C. af finis Elw. (164 d) likewise belongs yet to the dhanada- group. The band of the forewing is not 
so purely golden yellow, but in its central part darkened and besides different from that of lativittus in ending 
broadly before the anal angle. Fringe of hindwing speckled. From Indo-China (Ivhasia, Pegu, Tenasserim). 
C. inaequalis Elw. (164 d). Band of forewing still narrower, also lighter and more irregular than in 
af finis ; fringes unspeckled, uniformly yellow. From the Volcano of Gedeh in Java. — This form is not mentioned 
by Piepers in his Javanese Rhopalocera. It was described according to 1 specimen in the Coll. Staudinger. 
C. badia Hew. (171 d) is a rare species from Sikkim; upper surface very uniformly brown, only the 
proximal halves of the wings more furrily powdered with a greyish green. The oblique band of the forewing 
is white hyaline, proximad straightly defined, distally undulately. Before the apex the usual small, indistinct 
punctiform spots. 
C. batchianus Elw. (164 d) is somewhat like af finis, but the yellow oblique band of the forewing is 
in front and behind shortened and smoothly cut off by the subcostal above, by the lower median branch beneath. 
Only known from Batjan. 
C. editus Plotz (164 d) is one of the largest species; black, the central spots of the forewing form of 
an irregular white band surrounded by 4 dots; hindwing with a light central spot. Under surface exactly like 
the upper surface. Aru Is. 
15. Genus: liiarniiou Nic. 
The few forms of this purely Malayan genus are very much alike. They are of a jet-black ground¬ 
colour, and their only marking consists of a central short white band of the forewing of a variable shape. On 
the forewing vein 5 is very near to 6, 2 rises near the base of the wing. The colouring produced by the 
marking is that of the members of the genus Notocrypta, but the forewing never exhibits in Charmion minute 
dots, and the hindwing is not lobately produced in the anal portion. The imagines seem not to be common; 
they drink from flowers with erect wings and seem particularly to prefer the blossoms of Lantana hybrida. 
Ch. ficulnea Hew. (— signata Drc .) (164 e). The typical form exhibits the white central spot of the 
forewing above and beneath straightly cut off by the lower median branch ; Borneo. — leucographa Plotz (164 e), 
the exact patria of which is uncertain (only labelled: ,,India“), shows the white spot downward prolonged in a 
pointed tip as far as the submedian. — In queda Plotz (164 e), from the Malay Peninsula and Siam, the wedge- 
shaped spot of ficulnea is replaced by a small narrow, somewhat curved band. — In nibana Fruhst., finally 
from Sumatra, the white central spot is broader than in queda, narrower than in ficulnea, shorter than in tola, 
but in front narrower, posteriorly broader, thus just the contrary to leucographa. 
Ch. tola Hew. { — zawi Plotz, plesioneurae Stgr.) (164 e) is entirely like ficulnea, but the white spot 
is longer, proximad mostly with a straight, distally with a convex border; from Celebes. 
tola. 
