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in reality a fourth transversal line, its middle portion excavated between the radial 

 and middle median veinlet, its lower end zigzag, the posterior angle being broadly 

 bright ochreous with two black central dots and short ascending outer white streaks. 

 Hrndwlng crossed by three similar-positioned oblique almost straight very slender 

 black lines, the two inner angularly bent upward near the abdominal margin, the inner 

 one extending upward in a black streak to the base of the costa ; two submarginal 

 black streaks curving from the costal angle to near anal angle, their lower ends 

 waved, followed by an outer parallel slender line, then by an oblique streak from 

 the upper marginal angle, and again by a slender marginal line, the latter ending in 

 two black caudal marginal streaks ; lower area of abdominal border, the anal lobe 

 and lower outer border of the streaks bright ochreous ; anal lobes with black spots 

 and short white streaks. Underside white ; ti'ansverse lines and marginal borders 

 as above, but paler ; costal basal band and abdominal marginal markings absent. 

 Body above with a dorsal and lateral longitudinal black streak bordered with ochreous 

 and white ; body beneath and legs white ; palpi above clothed partly with black 

 and ochreous hairs, beneath white ; antennae black, partly annulated with white 

 beneath. 



Expanse, c? 2 to 2i^o, inches. 



Habitat. — Upper Burma; Tenasserira ; Jifalay Peninsula, Penang ; Sumatra; 

 Sarawak ; Borneo. 



DiSTEiBDTiON. — " Found commonly in Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 and Borneo. In Sumatra it is found on forest roads, where it settles with wide- 

 spread wings on moist places and by the side of small pools ; if pursued, it settles on 

 the underside of leaves by the roadside. On the wing, when flying rapidly along a 

 forest road in search of moist nre, it may easily be taken for a Pierine butterfly " (de 

 Niceville J. A. S. Beng. 1895, 429). Lieut. E. Y. Watson took it in " Upper Burma 

 in the spring, and Capt. Bingham in the Donat Range in April, and in the 

 Thoungyeen forests in December" {id. Butt. Ind. 253). Mr. E. Bartlett records it 

 as " very plentiful at times in Sarawak, having the habit of flying along the roads 

 in a direct line, very similar to a Pierine butterfly, for which it may be mistaken." 



CYRESTIS TABULA (Plate 307, fig. 2, 2a, J). 



Cyreitis Tabula, de Niceville, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 1, pi. 1, fig. 1, <? ; Butt, of India, 

 etc., ii. p. 25.3 (1886). Dohertj, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 258, '? . 



TiiAGO. — Male. " Upperside i-ich deep ochreous with black markings ; veins 

 mostly defined with black. Foreidng with a short longitudinal streak at base of the 

 cell, immediately beyond this a transverse one reaching from the median veinlet to 

 the costa ; then a pair of streaks which are wide apart at the median veinlet, but 



