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disappear with great rapidity, as they settle suddenly with outspread wings on the 

 underside of a leaf, where they are quite invisible from above. They are nearly 

 always found near water. In Simla, Thijodanias may often be seen at rest on a 

 bare quartz rock in mid-stream, its delicately pencilled markings exactly harmonizing 

 with the veinings of the stone " {de Niceville). 



CYRESTIS THYODAMAS (Plate 306, fig. 1, la, larva and pupa, 1, b, c, c? ? )• 



Cyrestis Thyodamas, Boisduval, Cuvier's Reg. Anim. Ins. ii. pi. 138, fig. 4 (1836). Doubleday 

 and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 32, fig. 3 (1848). Westwood, id. ii. p. 261 (1850). Butler, 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 307. de Nict'ville, Butt. India, ii. p. 251 (1886). Leech, Butt, of 

 China, etc., i. p. 248 (1892). Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. See. 1896, 

 p. 2o6, pi. 3, fig. 2, larva. Mackinnon, id. 1898, p. 376, pi. U, fig. ll.larva undjjupa. Staudinger 

 and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 23 (1888). 



Amathusia Ganescha, KoUar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2, p. 430, pi. 7, fig. 3, 4 (1844). 



Cyresiis Ganesc/ia, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1885, p. 308 ; id. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 363. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside either pure white (probably wet-season, 

 brood) or of various shades from white to pale I'ich yellowish-ochreous (probably dry- 

 season brood) ; veins mostly black. Forewing crossed by four irregularly-undulated 

 slender black lines, the first line subbasal, second and third medial, the fourth discal and 

 sinuous posteriorly, followed by three submarginal parallel lines ; interspaces between 

 the discal and outer lines, apically, more or less powdery fuliginous-brown or grey, 

 with a small, white-centred oval spot between tlie veins, the lower outer interspaces 

 broken by a fuliginous or olive-brown patch, the inner median and submedian spaces 

 being more or less bright ochreous and inwardly edged with steel blue, the latter 

 centred with three prominent white spots inwardly edged with black ; base of costal 

 border brownish-ochreous ; a subbasal black line across the cell, a curved line before 

 the end, and two discocellular lines, their upper interspaces and a costal patch 

 beyond being brownish-ochreous. Hindwing crossed by three medial slender black 

 lines, the middle line angulated towards the costa, followed by a broader outer-discal 

 black line, outwardly-edged with steel blue, a slender iuner-submarginal wavy Hne, 

 and then by two outer thicker irregular lines, between the outer-discal and inner 

 Bubmarginal is a row of elongated oval white spots, which are inwardly-edged with 

 black and bordered anteriorly with olivescent-ochreous, and posteriorly with 

 yellowish-ochreous ; anal lobes, more or less, yellowish-ochreous, or brownish- 

 ochreous, irregularly marked with black spots and streaks edged with white ; 

 abdominal border brownish-ochreous, edged by a black streak at base of costa ; tail 

 black, edged with white. Underside paler and of a pinkish-white; markings as 

 above, but less prominent, the anal lobes brighter ochreous and the black spots 



