252 NYMPHALID^E. NYMPH AI.IN.4i. CYRESTIS. 



in the hilly regions of south India as far South as Travancore, but not in Ceylon ; also in 

 Upper Tenasserim, but not in the Malay Peninsula. 



Var. aiuiamanica. Differs from all continental specimens of C. ihyodavias " in the 

 blackei apex and outer margin, in the prominent somewhat diffused black spot on the third 

 median nervule between the third and fourth common black strigre at the point where these 

 bend towards each other in the forewing ; and in having the fulvous marks of the ana^ 

 half of the abdominal margin, of the anal angle, and of the outer margin as far as the discoida^ 

 nervule, of the hindwing, much diffused and darker : — in having, in fact, all the markings 

 and colouring darker and coarser both above and below." {Wood-Mason and de Nuiville, 1. c.) 

 The late Mr. de Roepstorff has sent numerous specimens, including one female, of this local 

 race from the Andamans, which exhibit quite constantly the points of difference given above 

 between it and the continental form. 



545- CyreStiS nivea, Zinken-Sommer. 



./4>«(»/A«kVi wzV^a, Zinken-Somtner, Nova Acta Ac. Nat. Cur., vol. xv, p. 138, pi. xiv, fig. i, wm/^ (1831) ; 

 Cyresiis nivea, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Zoology, second series, vol. i, p. 545, n. 2 (1877) ; C. nivalis, Felder, 

 Reise Novara. Li^p , vol. ill, p. 414, n. 634 {1866J ; C. «;W(?, var. «/z;a//f. Distant, Rhop. Malay., p, 140, n. i, 

 pi. xii, fig. 3, male (1883). 



Habitat : Upper Tenasserim, Penang, Province Wellesley, Perak, Malacca (var, nivalis) ; 

 Java, Borneo (jiivea). 



Expanse : i 'lo to 2*2 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside, both 7vings pale creamy white, crossed by three 

 obliquely waved fuscous lines commencing about the costa of the forewing, the first near the 

 base, the second a little beyond the cellular apices, both angularly terminating on the abdominal 

 margin, the third crossing the wings at the middle and terminating at the first median nervule 

 of the hindwing. Foreioinsf with a broad but irregular fuscous costal margin from the 

 medial fuscous line to base, with an ochraceous basal costal streak ; cell crossed by a fuscous 

 line near base, and with two very slender and waved fuscous lines at about the apex ; a broad 

 apical fuscous patch and a broad outer margin of the same colour, terminating near the first 

 median nervule, the first inwardly containing two waved pale lines with an inner grey spot, 

 and the second possessing three pale submarginal lines ; between second and first median 

 iiervules is a submarginal and subovate fuscous spot, with an inner grey spot and inner pale 

 margin, and this spot is connected with the apical patch by a waved fuscous line ; near 

 posterior angle is an ochraceous spot, with a sinuate fuscous inner margin and two small median 

 fuscous spots. Hindxving with a submarginal fuscous fascia divided by a medial pale line, 

 followed by a fuscous line which becomes waved beneath the discoidal nervule ; a short straight 

 fuscous fascia from apex to third median nervule, a submarginal' fuscous line very broad at 

 area of median nervules, and the margin at apex and also at caudate prolongation fuscous ; 

 basal half of abdominal margin pale fuscous, and apical half of abdominal margin and internal 

 anal-angular area ochraceous, marked with several fuscous spots and pale lines. Underside 

 as above, but with the fuscous markings paler, and quite absent from costal margin of forewing 

 and abdominal margin of hindwing. Head and thorax above fuscous, their lateral margins 

 ochraceous ; the first with the eyes castaneous, and the second with medial pale longitudinal 

 lines ; abdomen fuscous, with ochraceous and greyish longitudinal markings ; body beneath 

 and legs more or less concolourous with wings." (Distant, I.e.) 



Typical C. nivea inhabits Java, and Dr. Felder, considering the Malaccan race, to which 

 the above description applies, distinct, described it under the name of C. nivalis, as follows : — 

 •' Male. Upperside almost as in C. nivea, but the forewing with the interior discal 

 striga not at all interrupted, arched, the exterior one less arched, submacular, the ter- 

 minal border narrower, inwardly much less oblique as far as the lower discoidal nervule, 

 almost bent in the shape of an S, the striga emitted from it more bent, with the two glau- 

 cescent streaks before the margin more approximating to each other and to the margin, the 

 fulvous anal spot marked externally with another whitish spot on the margin, divided by a 

 small black streak. JJindiving with the two discal strigae closer together, the fuscous fascia 



