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RHOPALOCERA MALAY AN A. 



Genus CYEESTIS {iwtm, p. 139). 

 3. Cyrestis codes. (Tab. XLI., fig. 13.) 



Papilio Corlf^, Fiibricius, Maut. Lis. ii. p. 7, n. 83 (1787); Ent. Syst. iii. p. 65, n. 204 (1798); Don. Ins. Ind. 



t. 23, f. 2 (1800). 

 Ci/restis Codes, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Lep. p. 82, n. 1 (1869); Moore, Proo. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 829; Wood-Mas. 



and de Nic. .J. A. S. Beng. vol. xlix. p. 228, n. 22 (1880). 



Male. Wings above pale creamy yellowisb ; anterior wings with the cell crossed by three dark 

 greyish and ochraceous fascise, a short disco-cellular fascia consisting of three dark greyish lines at end of 

 cell, a short dark greyish and ochraceous fascia beyond end of cell, two similar fascite beneath cell, two 

 small subcostal spots at end of cell, and a broad outer darker margin consisting of waved and somewhat 

 reticulated dark greyish and pale ochraceous markings, and containing some very obscure central spots ; 

 a black submai-ginal line, the margin ochraceous, inwardly bluish, the fringe creamy white ; posterior 

 ■wings with two basal dark greyish and ochraceous fascife, the outer one much angulated and continued 

 inwardly towards anal angle ; between these fasciae is a short disco-cellular fascia as on anterior wings, 

 a short and obscure ochraceous fascia at base, and the outer marginal area as on anterior wings, but with 

 a distinct central series of five spots with dark bluish centres, two small bluish-grey patches marked with 

 black on anal-angular area, caudate prolongation bluish-grey. W^ings beneath pale creamy white, with the 

 fasciae and markings above pale and indistinct beneath, the outer marginal spots, however, larger and 

 blacker, three showing distinctly on anterior wings (two small and subapical and one between the two lower 

 median nervules). Body and legs moi'e or less concolorous with wings. 



Exp. wings, <? , 54 millim. 



H.\B. — Continental India; Silhet (Brit. Mus.). — Andaman Islands; Port Blair (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). 

 — Tenasserim ; Hatsiega (Limborg — Moore). — Malay Peninsula; Penang (Biggs — coll. Dist.) ; Perak 

 (Godfery— coll. Dist. ; Kiinstl.— Calc. Mus.). 



4. Cyrestis formosa. 



Ci/rextis formosa, Felder, Beise Nov. Lep. iii. p. 412, u. 631 (1866); 



Wood-Mas. & de Nic. J. A. S. Beng. vol. l. p. 246, n. 80 



(1881). 

 ('i/irstis Jionitius, Wood-Mas. & de Nic. Proc. As. Soc. Beng. 1881, 



August, p. 142. 



Messrs. Wood-Mason and de Niceville have so clearly 

 described this species that I reproduce their words : — 



" Allied to C. codes, with which it agrees almost exactly in 



the character of the markings of the upperside, but from which it 



differs in the pure white ground-colour, painted with different 



shades of sepia-brown instead of pale ochraceous-fuscous and 



black, the black marks of C. codes being represented by the darkest 



of the sepia colouring, in its larger and more distinct ocelli, and in having a distinct but pale fulvous patch 



at the anal angle of the posterior wing ; and, on the underside, in having only the lightest portions of the 



sepia markings absent and replaced by white or whitish." 



Exp. wings, (? , 53 to 59 millim. 



Hab. — Continental India; Orissa (Wood-Mas. & de Nic). — Andaman Islands (coll. Dist.). — Malay 

 Peninsula ; Perak (Kiinstl. — Calc. Mus.). 



Fi.i. \-i:>. 



-Cyri'stis formosa. 



