NYMPH ALINM. (Gmup xrMpgAiiNj,) 51 



(Ficus indica), and secured six, of which two were reared" (E. H. Aitken, id. 

 p. 351). Mr. P. W. Mackinnon found the " larva, in Masuri, feeding on Ficus 

 nemoralis, and in the Doon, upon Ficus glomerata " (J. Bomb, N. H, S. 1898, 376). 

 Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 306, fig. 1 is a reproduction of Mr. 

 Mackinnon's figures, and fig. la of Mr. Davidson's figures, of tlie larva and pupa ; 

 fig. lb is a male of the white {wet-season) form, and fig. Ic, a female of the pale 

 oohreous {dry^season) form. 



CYRESTIS ANDAMANICA (Plate 306, fig. 2, 2a, S 9 )• 



Cyrestis Thi/odamas, var. Andamanica, Wood-Mason and de Niccville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881. 



p. 246. 

 Cyrestis Thyodamas, var. Andamanensis, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 132, pi. 4-5, $ (1888). 



Imago.— Male and female. " DiS'ers from Continental Indian and Burmese 

 C. Thyodamas in the blacker apex and outer margin, in the prominent somewhat 

 diS"used black spot on the third median veinlet between the third and fourth 

 transverse black lines of the forewing, and in having the fulvous marks of the anal 

 half of the abdominal margin, of the anal angle, and of the outer margin as far a.s 

 the discoidal vein, of the hindwing, much diffused and darker ; in having, in fact, all 

 the markings and colouring darker both above and below," 



Expanse, S ? 2]^o to 2^q inches. 



Habitat, — South Andamans. 



CYRESTIS NIVALIS (Plate 307, fig. 1, la, S)- 



Cyrestis Nivalis, Felder, Reise Xovara, Lep. iii. p. 414 (1866). de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 



1895, p. 429. 

 Cyrestis Nivea, var. Nivalis, Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 140, pi. 12, fig. 3, S (1883). 

 Cyrestis Nivea, de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 252 (1886). 

 Cyrestis Nivea, var. interrupia, Snellen, Tijd. v. Ent. 1890, p. 217. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside white. Forewing crossed by three 

 outwardly -curved oblique waved equidistant very slender black lines, the first 

 subbasal, the second medial, and the third discal; base of costal border to medial 

 transverse line irregularly black and longitudinally streaked with ochreous ; cell 

 crossed by a slender black line near the base, and with two similar waved lines at 

 the end ; outer margin with a broad black band traversed by three entire outer and 

 two broken inner pale fuliginous-white slender lines, the two inner upper lines with 

 an intervening white oval dot, the inner edge of the band is irregularly waved — being 



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