58 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Bengal, 1895, 431). Specimens from Sarawak, Borneo, are in the British 

 Museum. 



Malay Species. — Chersonesia Bahria (Cyrestis Rahria, Moore, Catal. Lep. E. I. C. 

 i. p. 147, pi. 3a, fig. 2, ? (1857). Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 142, pi. 12, fig. 4, ? 

 (1883). de Niceville, Butt. India, ii. p. 256 (1886). Hagen, Deuts. Ent. Zeit. 

 Iris, 1896, p. 178, pi. 1, fig. 4, 5, larva and pupa. Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. 

 p. 133, pi. 45. Habitat. Java; Sumatra; Nias ; Malay Peninsula; Borneo. — 

 G. intermedia, Martin, Ein. Tagschmett. N.E. Sumatra, pt. 2, p. 4(1895). Habitat. 

 N.E. Sumatra.— C. Neella, Swinhoe, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1894, p. 430. Habitat. N. 

 Borneo. — C. Gyanee, de Niceville, Journ. Bombay, N. H. Soc. 1893, p. 49, pi. L, 

 fig. 6, 7, c? ? . Habitat. N.E. Sumatra. — G. Nicevillei, Martin, Ein. Tagsclimett. 

 N.E. Sumatra, p. 4 (1895). de Niceville, J. A. S. Bengal, 1895, p. 431. Habitat. 

 N.E. Sumatra. — G. Gelebensis, Rothschild, Dresden Iris, 1892, p. 436. Habitat. 

 Celebes.— C. Mangolina, Fruhstorfer, Berl. Eat. Zeit. 1899, p. 87. Habitat. Sula 

 Mangol, S. Celebes, 



Genus APSITHRA. 



Forewing with the costa more convex than in typical Cyrestis, apex obtuse, 

 exterior margin slightly augulate below the apex and not excavated above the 

 posterior angle. Hindwing shorter and broader posteriorly, apex obtusely rounded, 

 exterior margin convex, tail and anal lobes less produced. 



Type. — A. Codes. 



APSITHRA COCLES (Plate 308, fig. 1, la, b, <? ? {Wet-season form) . 



Papilio Codes, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 7 (1787) ; Eut. Syst. iii. i. p. 65 (1793). 



Cyrestis Codes, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 260 (185u). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 82 (1869). 



Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 829. de Niceville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 254. 

 Cyrestis Formosa, Wood-Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 246. Distant, Rhop. 



Malay, p. 442, J (trood-cut). 

 Cyrestis Horatius, Wood-Mason and de Nice'vUle, Proc. As. Soc. Bengal, 1881, p. 142 ^. 

 Cyrestis Earlei, Distant, Khop. Malay, p. 141, pi. 13, fig. 5, (J (1883). 

 Cyrestis Natta, Swinhoe, Annals of Nat. Hist. (1899), p. 105, (J. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside. Both wings with a medial-discal trans- 

 verse white band, the basal half of the wings and the broad outer border being more 

 or less of a pale greyish sepia-brown. Cilia white ; abdominal border greyish- white. 

 Forewing with the inner edge of the discal white band very irregularly angulated, 

 its outer edge generally nearly straight and even, but in some specimens slightly 

 sinuous anteriorly ; basal half crossed by a more or less dark ochreous sepia-brown 



