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CHARAGIA. By R. Pfitzner f and M. Gaede. 
chrysomal- 
lon. 
scripta. 
argyrogra- 
pha. 
argyrodi¬ 
nes. 
mirabilis. 
ivollastoni. 
liampsoni. 
arfaki. 
ninayana. 
eugyna. 
green, hind wing with a red interior part, changig into greenish. New South Wales to Queensland, living in 
Acmena etc. A very large $ of my collection, from Brisbane, exhibits a peculiar golden yellow to buff total 
colouring. Basal part of hindwing dull reddish, the silvery spots of the fore wing contrast very prominently 
with the buff ground. I denominate this form: ab. chrysomallon (73 b). — scripta Scott, from West Australia 
(Albany), shows the characters of this group further developed, 75 mm. Forewing green, tinted yellowish 
behind, watered lighter. 4 silvery white bands, interior half strewn with short silvery white spots. Hindwing 
greenish-white. $ 100 mm. Forewing of a bright grass-green colour, the basal spots lighter than in the $. 
Two postmedian rows of large silvery spots between the veins. Besides 3 or 4 spots at the anal angle, and 
a dentiform silvery spot nearer to the base. Short silvery streaks at the costal margin. Hindwing yellowish- 
red, greener at the apex. 
Ch. argyrographa Fldr. (76 c) we only know from Felder’s figure (Novarareise pi. 81, fig. 2). $ 84 mm. 
Forewing green, with a reddish tint towards the inner margin. Costa with dark grey and whitish spots, 
numerous small dispersed paler spots; 2 distal rows of white spots and an inner-marginal row. Hindwing 
deep yellowish ochre, reddish at the base. The patria mentioned is only “Australia”, without any detailed habi¬ 
tat (perhaps also an Australian island ?). This woidd be important to know on account of the following spe¬ 
cies. In the Coll. Staudinger which is now in the Berlin Museum I found a $ Charagia which is very similar 
to argyrographa Fldr. It has been determined as “ lamberti ” and is labelled “Ovalan, Fidji”. Forewdng and 
thorax dark green, 9 square black spots at the costa, 6 square silvery spots each at the inner margin, 
2 bands of silvery spots from the costa in the last third to the inner margin, the distal one parallel to the 
distal margin, the interior one through the centre of the wing ending before the centre of the inner margin 
with one of the inner-marginal spots. The space between is marked with undulate, whitish, silvery double 
lines. Hindwing greenish, base pale red, abdomen reddish, end greenish. Beneath green, markings showing 
through from above, basal part with reddish hair, costa (also of hindwing) with black squares. 112 mm. 
Length of body 51 mm. I denominate this beautiful and interesting species: argyrodines (dgyvQohivriQ = 
with silvery waves) (73 c). [Felder’s figure seems to me to be a <J. The main difference of the-figure from 
argyrodines is the reddening at the inner margin of the forewing. The shape of the rows of silvery spots 
does not correspond completely, but to such an extent that one may be almost positive that argyrodines is 
the $ of argyrographa (Gaede)]. 
Ch. mirabilis Rothsch. (73 d, 74 a). This most magnificent and largest species of the Charagia is dis¬ 
tinguished by the deep iridescent blue changing into green like the waves of the sea on the fore wing, 
while the hindwing is opalescent white, and by the greenish-yellow and purple brown $ forewing being marked 
leaf-like, effectively contrasted by the pale salmon-coloured hindwing. Size very differerent. According to 
Rothschild, a £ (from the Cedar Bay, North Queensland) has an expanse of 140 mm. The two $$ of my 
collection have an expanse of 103 and 120 mm respectively, the $$ 132 and 180 mm. Queensland. (The 
figure on pi. 73 represents the $, not the <$). 
Ch. wollasfoni Rothsch. (100 a). Thorax apple-green, abdomen lighter, brownish at the end. Forewing 
chocolate brown, the green costal-marginal spots edged with white. The whole forewing is covered with 
white and green bands of X-marks, the white ones being filled with green. Hindwing pale brown at the 
base, the rest with a slight green hue, with a few greenish-white X-marks. $ 155 mm. Dutch New Guinea. 
Ch. liampsoni Joic. A- Noakes. (77 d, e). forewing uniformly covered with rows of golden yellow 
X-marks. Fine brown dots at the distal margin. Hindwing pale yellowish-green with very indistinct yellow 
X-roWs. $ darker green, the yellow X-rows rather indistinct. 4 irregular red-brown bands with silvery 
white X-marks; besides a similar marginal row. Hindwing pale yellowish-brown, feeble X-marks in the 
distal area. 160 —190 mm. Arfak Mts. (Dutch New Guinea). 
Ch. arfaki B.-Bak. head, thorax brown. Abdomen reddish ochre, brown at the end. Forewing pale 
yellowish-green, three reddish-brown spots near the centre of the costa, and a larger reddish-brown spot near 
the angle of the inner margin, a silvery white spot below the centre of the cell, a similar one below vein 2, and 
two above this latter spot at vein 5, one at each side of it. Hind wing light reddish creamy. 71 mm. Arfak 
Mts., New Guinea, 4000 ft. February and March. 
Ch. ninayana Pf. (76 a). Length of body: 36 mm. Head, thorax and end of abdomen olive brown. 
Abdomen very pale pink. Forewing with a pointed apex, very pale yellowish-green, feebly cancellated brown, 
6 brown costal spots, a larger, angularly projecting brown spot in the centre of the inner margin, adjoin¬ 
ing to it above there is a silvery stigma. 2 coherent silvery stigmata in the centre of the wing towards the 
apex; a particularly large silvery spot in the basal part above the inner margin towards the base, bordered 
by an equally large brownish spot. Hindwing very dull whitish pink, broadly whitish-green in the distal part. 
63 mm. Dutch New Guinea. Central Arfak Mts., Ninay Valley. Observed from November to January 1909. 
Ch. eugyna R. <£• J. rf: body green, metanotum and abdomen — excepting apex — dingy white. An¬ 
tennae pale greyish-yellow, brownish on the upper side. Forewing quite green or partly whitish; in the 
middle there is an almost straight darker green line bordered by small blackish-brown spots; a number of 
such small spots between this line and the margin, an indistinct row of small spots somewhat nearer the 
