NYMPHALIN^. (Group yTMPHALIXJ.) 59 



subbasal narrow broken fascia, bordered outwardly by a parallel pale fine wliitisli line 

 edged by a blackish line ; a similar dark oclireous sepia-brown broken fascia form- 

 ing the irregular angulated edge of the white discal band, inwardly bordered by a 

 white and black line ; a short similar-coloured narrow streak, with its inner white 

 and black line inwards, crossing base of cell ; another, with the inner white and 

 black edge lines on both its sides, a little beyond, and an angulated more sharply- 

 defined one bordering the discocellulars ; outer marginal clouded border traversed by 

 a row of ill-defined bluish-grey oceUi, each with a slight black centre and pale outer 

 ring, the one between the lower and middle median being much the largest, the one 

 above it more or less obsolete, and all bordered by an inner and an outer ill-defined 

 more or less whitish lunular line, beyond which is a sharply-defined marginal fine 

 black fine edged on both sides by a white line. Eindwing with the white discal 

 band tapering to a point posteriorly and there bent inward above the anal angle, its 

 inner edge undulated and its outer edge even ; basal area crossed by a more or less 

 dark ochreous sepia-brown subbasal fascia with an outer fine white and black edge- 

 line, and a similar fascia with inner white and black irregular lines forming the 

 undulated border of the discal white band ; a short sharply-defined narrow angulated 

 streak with its white and black line inwards, bordering the discocellulars ; outer 

 marginal clouded-border traversed by a row of ill-defined bluish-grey lunules, each 

 -with a slight black centre and pale outer edge, the one between the subcostals much 

 the largest and ocellate, and all bordered by an inner and an outer ill-defined whitish 

 lunular line ; beyond which is a sharply-defined marginal fine black line edged on 

 both sides by a white line ; two similar diifused ocelli at anal angle inwardly 

 bordered by an ochreous patch. Underside white, with a very delicate pale-pinkish 

 flush, and the basal half slightly tinted with very pale grey ; the basal and marginal 

 transverse markings, as above, pale sepia-brown and partly obliterated, but the 

 marginal ocelli and anal lobe-spot more prominent. Body and palpi above sepia- 

 brown, below and legs white ; antennee brown, aunulated with white beneath. 

 Expanse, 6 ? 2 to 2x^ inches, 



Plate 308, fig. 1, c, d, e, (J ? {Dry-season form), 



Papilio Codes, Donovan, Ins. India, pi. 23, fig. 2 (1800), S- 



Cijrsstis Formosa, Felder, Reise Novara Lep. iii. p. 412 (1867). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 133, 



pi. 45, ? (1888). 

 Cyrestis Codes, var. Andamanica, Wood.Mason and de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal (1881), 



p. 246. 

 Cyrestis Codes, Distant, Ehop. Malay, p, 442, pi. 41, fig. 13, J. de Niceville, Butt. India, ii. pi. 23, 



fig. 107, <?. 



Male and female. Upperside. Differs from the wet-season form in having the 



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