248 NYMPIIALID.E. NV.Mril AI,IN/E. CYRESTIS. 



divided by the third median nervule (on the underside in R. saiina they arc black), the discal 

 band less broad, especially on the hindwing, and on the underside all the markings are very 

 obscure. The female differs in having one black spot only on the upperside of the hindwing, 

 in Ji. sabina there are four, on the forewing also in the latter species there is a series of five 

 ochreous lunules within the submarginal black lines, which are not present in R. vasiiki. 



Mr. W. Doherty informs me that "It is found flying rather commonly in the open 

 country at the foot of the Arakan Yoma near Sandoway, Arakan, and has the habits of 

 Hypolimuas misippus.'" In Major Marshall's collection are several specimens obtained from 

 a soldier's box at Rangoon. It occurs also in Tavoy. 



Another species, which almost certainly belongs to this genus, but has never been caught 

 as far as I am aware since the type specimen was met with by Delessert, has been described 

 and figured from the Malay Coast. As figured it is very similar to our Chittagong female 

 R.fulva, on the upperside the dark apex and outer margin of the forewing, and the submar- 

 ginal round spots and marginal lines are somewhat more prominent, the underside hardly 

 differs at all. Should it prove synonymic with R. fulva (as I believe it to be), the latter name 

 will have to give way to R, eudoxia, A translation of the original description is appended.* 



Genus 84.— CYRESTIS, Boisduval. (Plate XXIII). 



C)'r«/«, Boisduval, Voy. Astrol., Lep., p. 117 (1832); id., Westwood, Gen. Diurn, Lep., vol. ii, p. 260 

 (iSsoJ ; id., Felder, Neues Lep., p. 24, u. 54 (i86ij ; id., Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 139 (1883); Chcrsoncsia, 

 idem, id., p. 142 (1883). 



** Body, small, slender ; ivings, large and delicate. Head, small, broader than the neck, but 

 narrower than the middle of the thorax, strongly tufted in front ; eyes, very prominent, naked ; 

 antennce, not [sometimes more than] half the length of the forewing, very slender, and terminated 

 by an elongated, very gradually formed, slender club ; palpi, long, slender, directed upwards to 

 about two-thirds of the height of the eyes, and porrected to nearly twice the length of the 

 head, somewhat cylindrical, scaly, basal joint clothed beneath with rather short woolly hairs, 

 second joint also similarly clothed on the upperside, the joints not being apparent unless 

 denuded of scales, terminal joint nearly as long as the second, slender. Thorax, squamose, 

 slightly hirsute behind, collar narrow and distinct. Abdomen, small and slender, not above 

 one-third of the length of the hindwing. Forewing, large, subtriangular ; casta slightly 

 rounded ; outer margin somewhat truncate or slightly rounded, five-sixths of the lengtli of 

 the costa, sinuated along its greater part, apex rather acute [sometimes well rounded, 

 sometimes truncate], anal angle emarginate and somewhat lobed [sometimes evenly 

 rounded, sometimes acute], inner margin not above two-thirds of the length of the costa, 

 rather rounded outwardly towards the base, but emarginate beyond the middle ; costal 

 nervure slender, extending to the middle of the costa, subcostal nervure rather thicker, its 



• Vanessa eudoxia, Gu^rin, Rev. Zool., 1840, p. 44 ; idem, id., in Delessert's Voy dans I'lnde, p. 73, 

 pi XX (1843); Precis eudoxia, Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 191, n. 25(1871); Rkinopalpa'i cudoxin. 

 Distant, Rnop. Malay. i p. 99, pi. xvii, lig. 6 (1883). Habitat: Malay Coast. K.xi'anse : 2^9 inches. DhS- 

 CKiPTioN : " J-'orewing subfalcate, hindzuiu^ outwardly subcaudate. Vvvekhuk, both w/zw^j ochraceons, the 

 base fuscous, the ape.x black. H indwing \vi\.\\ two marginal lines and subocellate dots black Unueksiue, 

 brownish-ochraceous, with dentate strigae whitish and luscous, and ocelli pupilled with blue near the 

 margin." 



" This beautiful Vanessa perhaps may be placed near the V. laodora and pelarga of Godart. The fore- 

 w/»^ is of a tawny-yellow ochre colour, higlily concave and dentate on the external margin, pale brown at the 

 base, with the apex blackish. The hindwing is dentate, with a small tail at the middle of the external margin 

 and a small rounaed prolongation at the anal angle. The colour is similar to that of the forewing, with the 

 base equally brown and the apex blackish. It has near the margin two sinuous lines preceded by large black 

 points ringed with a paler colour than the ground, of which the two outermost touch the apical blackish patch, 

 and a small oblique blue streak on the middle of the lobe of the anal angle. The undersiuk is of a yellowish 

 brown; at the base of the wings, of a paler yellow at the middle, deepening in tone towards the margin, wiih 

 some whitish zigzag lines with violet rellections, and others brown and transverse. The white lines of the 

 middle and those of the external margin are larger and better defined. There is besides on the inner side 

 of the white lines on the border of both wings a line of brown ocelli bordered with black and pupilled with 

 blue, six on the forewing and five on the hindwing The cilia alternately black and white on both sides. 

 .^Jfi/y yellowish brown, rt«/t'««tf; black." [fiucnuA. c> 



Mr. Distant's figure of this species is a very bad copy of the original, the upperside is made much too 

 dark, and there are a series of broad blue streaks between the veins on both wings, which arc entirely absent 

 iu the original figure. 



