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bent almost like an S, cut through with a broader glaucous striga, the apical white patch 

 larger, the whitish streaks before the margin whiter, and the fulvous anal area extending 

 beyond the third median nervule. Underside more palely marked. Ilindwiug with the 

 inner whitish streak before the margin hindwardly more dilated." 



"A local form oi C. nivea, Zinken, but with shorter forewing, and the hindwing more 

 deeply cut out at the apex, and longer on the inner margin." {Fdiler, 1. c.) 



Mr. Distant states that " the variety w/VaZ/j- differs from typical Javan specimens of C. nivea 

 in not having a continuous fuscous margin to the forewing, and in the greater amount of ochra- 

 ceous colouration near the anal angle of the hindwing." {Distant, 1. c.) I possess no specimens 

 from Java, but a Bornean one in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, is absolutely indistinguishable 

 from Indian specimens, and does not exhibit the differential characters given by either Felder or 

 Distant. The differences between C. nivea and C- nivalis appear to be so slight even if constant, 

 that I prefer to retain the older name for the Indian representatives of this species. Lieutenant 

 Watson has taken it in Upper Burma in the spring, and Captain Bingham in the Donat range 

 in April and in the Thoungyeen forests in December. There is a single female from the 

 Meplay Valley in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, which differs in no respect from the male. 



546- Oyrestisa taljula, de n. 



C. tabula, de Niceville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. lii, pt, 2, p. i, pi. i, fig. i, male (1S83) ; id,, Doheity, Journ. 

 A. S. B., vol. Iv, pt. 2, p. 258, n. 7 (1886). 



Habitat : Great Nicobar. 



Expanse T 2*2 to 2' 5 inches. 



Description: "Male. Upperside, (5^)/,^ wings rich deep ochreous or fulvous with 

 black markings ; all the veins more or less defined with black. Fomving with a short 

 longitudinal streak at the base of the cell ; immediately beyond this a transverse one reaching 

 from the median nervure to the costa ; then a pair of streaks which are wide apart at the 

 median nervure, but joined at the subcostal nervure ; the disco-cellular nervules defined with 

 a fine black line ; beyond which is a bow-shaped figure composed of two lines joined at their 

 ends, the outer line straight, the inner one curved, with their points resting on the second 

 median nervule and subcostal nervure ; below the cell a pair of streaks reaching the inner 

 margin, the origin of the inner one being where the first median, and the outer one where the 

 second median nervule is given off, the space between them thickly irrorated with black 

 scales, leaving but little of the ochreous ground-colour visible ; two discal lines from the 

 subcostal nervure to the inner margin, the outer one lunulate, the inner one sinuate, the two 

 lines being nearer together at their middle, wider apart at the inner margin, the space be- 

 tween them and within the inner one being irrorated with black scales ; a submarginal series 

 of seven bright ochreous spots, broadly defined inwardly with black, one in each interspace 

 except the two lower, which are smaller and placed between the first median nervule and 

 the submedian nervure ; the outer margin broadly black, bearing two obsolete paler lines. 

 Hindtving crossed by four black lines, the space between each pair, and between both pairs 

 being thickly irrorated with black scales, especially at the lower extremity of the outer pair, 

 where the ground-colour is entirely black, at the upper extremity the ground-colour increasingly 

 to the costa is very pale ochreous ; a submarginal line composed of six lunules, each lunule 

 having a bright ochreous spot placed outwardly against it ; the outer margin more broadly 

 black than in the forewing, the black portion ending at the first median nervule, bearing 

 two intensely black lines, the outer one defined on both sides with a pale fine line, the outer 

 of these two pale fine lines becoming almost pure white from the tail to the anal lobe ; 

 which latter, together with a round spot above it, is bright ochreous, defined (especially 

 outwardly) with black. There are also some small white, black, and metallic deep steel-blue 

 markings above the round ochreous spot. The tail black, the extremity white. Underside 

 pale ochreous, the outer portion of the forewing, and on either side of the submarginal 

 lunules on the hindwing, somewhat deeper ochreous, becoming ferruginous at the anal angle 

 of the latter. All the markings of the upperside, but narrower and better defined, with no 

 black irrorations, the outer margins (except the extreme margin which is black) concolourous 



