44. ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY.
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Insects of China, pi. 34, of my edition * ) . In botli sexes of that species, however, the middle of the
^vings bears a large, very pale, bnff or white patch, (which indeed somewhat reappears in the female
of the present species); the extremity of the fore wings in Ch. Bernardus is, however, Tnuch darker
than iu this species. Ch. Bernardus may thns be considered as intermediate between Ch. Psaphon
and ^klarmax. The markings of the nuder side of the wings, in all these species, is very smiilar
although the coloiuing differs; the diflerence in the length of the tails of the hind Avings iu the
opposite sexes of this species occurs also iu Ch. Bernardus, whilst the tail at the anal angle" of these
wings is almost obliterated.
Col. Heai-sey informs me that he usually took the Indian Ch. Fabius upon wounded apple trees,
the butterflies frequenting the wounds to suck up the fluids which were discharged therefrom.
The powers of flight in this genus must be very great ; in fact the form and proportion of the wings
and the great strengtli of the wiug veins, seem espeeiaUy to fit the species of this genus for the
most powerful flight.
The plant represented in this plate is Bolbophyllum umbellatum, from the mountains of India.
* This figiu'c of Donovan is a good copy of Jones' llra^ying from which Fabricius described tlie species. Tap Polvxena Cramer DI
5-1, fig. A B, is very similar. ' ' ^ '
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