CHARAXES. By H. Frcjhstorfer. 
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all of which are in the Tring Museum. Upper surface chestnut-brown. Forewing in both sexes with a band 
extended from the costal margin to the submedian and composed of almost square white spots. Hindwing 
resembling durnfordi with a relatively narrow white area enclosing oval, closely adjoining, black ocelli being 
distally white-pupilled. Hindwing, moreover, with traces of a white median macular series. Under surface 
of a silvery grey, with a grey — instead of white as above — marginal zone of the hindwings. Tails very long, 
the anterior one somewhat broader and the posterior one little shorter and more pointed. The butterflies rise 
from the coast up to about 600 m. — ocellatus Fruhst. Upper surface: base of the forewing light cocoa-brown; ocellatus. 
the disk is traversed, from the costal margin to the submedian, by a purely white, rather rectilinear band which, 
however, is particularly proximally sharply indented like an angle. The whole other distal part of the wing 
is black, except an obsolete diffuse spot below the costal margin. In the discal band between the third and 
fifth subcostal vein there is one black dot to each of them. The apex is extended; ciliae white. Hindwing above 
somewhat lighter brown than the forewing, the costal border, except the outermost part, without scales, greyish 
white and dull. The distal margin is bordered round by a blacldsh-brown band filling up also the tails almost 
to their points; from the tails it turns lighter extending towards the anal angle. In the anterior part of the 
hindwing four oblong black, white-pupilled submarginal spots standing together like a band and being proxi¬ 
mally bordered round by yellowish lunular spots. Tails very long, above dark brown, beneath greyish-brown; 
tips whitish, the upper ones projecting in a straight line, the lower ones proximally curved. Two white-pupilled, 
black spots edged with a yellowish macula, are between the tails and separated from the tails by the distal 
border mentioned above. In the anal angle a similar double-spot bordered by the grey proximal margin. From 
the costal to the 2nd median, in the discal part of the hindwing there runs an irregular, whitish-yellow band 
of square spots, which is proximally separated from the brown basal part by a black border. Under surface 
of all the wings silvery grey. On the forewings the white band is repeated, though it is proximally bordered by 
brown. In the cell there are small, curved brown bands. The distal margin of the wings whitish with similarly 
scaled ribs. The wings are traversed by a submarginal band consisting of oblong outwardly pointed spots the 
upper 5 of which are coloured in grey with brown dots, the two last ones jet-black with a grey enclosure. On 
the under surface of the hindwings the marginal band is brownish-grey, bordered by a narrow yellowish sub¬ 
marginal band, which is pupilled in blue and black between the ribs and borders on 7 light grey subdiscal spots. 
These spots are proximally helmeted in black and yellow and each of them ocellated with a white dot, except 
the last in which there stand 2 dots in conformity with the upper surface. The helmet-spots are bordered by 
a narrow light-brown band. The disk is traversed by a broad white band proximally margined in red-brown. 
In the basal part of the wings there are, furthermore, 3 brown zigzag stripes. Antennae black with brown tips. 
Body above brown, beneath grey. Length of wings 42 mm. This most conspicuous species is distantly related 
to Charaxes orilus Btlr. from Timor. Lombok, May—June, but one specimen captured at an altitude of 2000 ft. 
— sumbawanus Eothsch. with 50 mm length of forewings is somewhat larger than ocellatus. Forewing with sumbawa- 
a broad white costal streak distal from the white band. Sumbawa, Bima, February. Only one $ discovered mts ' 
by Dohertv. — sumbanus Eothsch. Type a $ likewise flying in February, with a shorter white band of the sagnbanas. 
forewing than the allied races. Everett discovered the sole $ reported hitherto, in November 1896. — florensis florensis. 
Eothsch. was collected in two Uck t° the south of Flores, in November 1896. The median band of the forewing 
more curved than in the other ocellatus- branches; the submarginal spots of the hindwings are larger than in 
sumbanus. 
C. orilus replaces Ch. ocellatus in the islands of the Timor Group, though it agrees with it only in the 
shape of the tails and its rare occurrence, orilus differs from ocellatus by being more plainly marked and by 
the sexes exhibiting no essential differences. Upper surface dark velvety-brown, in the £ generally somewhat 
lighter. The places that are not brown, are covered by cream-coloured bands. Hindwings with some black 
submarginal spots of different and altogether small size. Under surface according to the insular habitat grey 
or whitish with beautiful red-brown longitudinal bands and a lighter whitish-yellow area than on the upper 
surface. The submarginal spots of the hindwings still more reduced than above, bordered by blue atoms. 
Proximally to the yellow submarginal area another longitudinal row of median crescentiform spots. Habitat 
Timor, Wetter and Kisser, but we may certainly expect some more forms from the other, eastern satellite- 
islands of Timor. — orilus Btlr. inhabits Timor where UU were found in November, $$ in May. orilus ex- orilus. 
hibits more extensive yellow areas of the upper surface than kissericus Fruhst. (135 b as orilus) an insular race kissericus. 
distinguished from orilus particularly by the whitish -grey under surface and a white, instead of yellowish 
marginal area of the hindwings. Kisser, only one $ i n the Coll. Fruhstorfer. — wetterensis E. and J . was wetterensis. 
discovered by Doherty in May 1892. Hindwing with smaller black spots than in the Timor-race and with a 
darker under surface of both wings. The $ was first described by me in the Berl. E. Zschr. 1903, p. 95. 
Without counting the somewhat lighter brown velvety covering of the upper surface it differs from the $ by 
more extensive yellow areas and broader tails. Island of Wetter, very rare. 
C. nitebis, a species characteristic of the Island of Celebes, passes also over to the Sula Islands in 
the east, so that we have to deal with three geographically split branches: nitebis Hew. (135 b) $ beneath light nitebis, 
greyish brown with black lines, almost obsolete, small red-brown submarginal spots, as well as blue intranerval 
