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equal portions touching eacli other, thickens outwards and 

 connects with a long spear-shaped mark beyond the cell with 

 its point running- into the lower end of a broad subapical 

 band formed into three nearly square spots by the veins; an 

 oblique discal band of three broadly oval spots in the three 

 lower interspaces, a small white mark near apex, two pale 

 lunulate lines or thin bands close to the outer margin : hind 

 wings with a broad inner transverse band and a discal band 

 of spots and a pale submarginal line as in selenophora. 

 Underside pale brown with a rufous tinge, the base suffused 

 with pale greenish scales, as is also the abdominal margin of 

 the hind wings ; the bands all very broad and the submarginal 

 lines white and thick, and white spots on the margin : 

 abdomen with a white band. 



Expanse of wings 2 1 7 (J inches. 



Solomon Islands. One example. 



Belongs to the selenophora group, but it is quite distinct 

 from that species. 



7. Cyrestis natta, no v. 



<£ . Upperside with all the markings as in C. codes, Fabr., 

 but the basal half of both wings is sepia-coloured limited by 

 the broad transverse pure white band ; on the outer side of 

 this band the ground-colour is also mostly sepia, the sinuous 

 lines on each side of the row of ocelli being pure white ; on 

 the underside the transverse markings are sepia tinged 

 with red. 



Expanse of wings 2 1 2 inches. 



Khasia Hills. Numerous examples. 



In the ' Butterflies of India,' vol. ii. p. 254, Mr. deNiceville 

 refers this insect to G. Earli, Distant, under which name it 

 stands in the Indian collections. Mr. de NiceVille says that 

 C. codes appears to usually present three distinct forms 

 wherever it occurs ; this is apparently a perfectly correct 

 statement, but it only goes to prove the fact that if sucii forms 

 are to be studied by the biologist and careful records kept of 

 the manner in which they either die out or gradually establish 

 themselves as good species, they must have names. In the 

 Malay Peninsula we find three forms with three names — 

 codes, ¥&hx.,formosa, Felder, and Earli, Distant. In India 

 similarly we have three forms, but the third Indian form, 

 whether it be only a form of codes or a good species, is not 

 the same as the third Malayan form ; it differs widely from 

 Earli, Distant, having much less white on it and is altogether 

 of a different tint of sepia : they come in large numbers 

 together from the Khasia Hills. I have examined many 



