NYMPHALIN^. (Group NTMPHALIXA.) 61 



APSITHRA PERIANDER (Plate 308, fig. 2, 2a, ^J ? ). 



Papilio Periandcr, Fabricius, Mant. lus. ii. p. 9 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 67 (1793). Donovan, Ins. 



India, pi. 37, fig. 1 (1800). 

 Cyrestis Periander, Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 261 (1850). Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 82 



(1869). de Niceville, Butt of India, etc., ii. p. 255 (1886). Distant, Rliop. Malay, p. US, 



pi. 41, fig. 10. 

 Cyrestis Themire, Honrath, Berl. Ent. Zeit. 1884., p. 398, pi. 10, fig. 5. Moore, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. 



1886, p. 35. 

 Cyrestis Wernichei, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 133 (1888). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside white ; basal interspaces, to the medial 

 band, sullied with pale fuliginous-grey scales. Furewing crossed by a subbasal, a 

 medial, and a discal narrow pale dull ochreous somewhat irregular band ; a short 

 similar coloured streak across base of the cell, another across its middle, and one 

 beyond the discocellulars ending on the middle median veinlet ; a broad fuliginous- 

 grey outer marginal band, widest anteriorly, its inner edge obtusely angulated inward 

 below the apex and irregulai-ly waved hindward, bearing a submarginal fine whitish 

 lunular line marked within by a series of obscure small black round spots, followed 

 by a marginal fine black line defined on each side by an equally fine white line ; the 

 costal border slightly fuliginous-grey. Hind-wing crossed by three narrow pale 

 brighter ochreous bands and a lower outer-discal broad bright ochreous irregular band, 

 extending from above the median to above anal angle ; a short ochreous streak 

 across end of the cell; a narrow fuliginous-grey outer marginal band bearing a 

 submarginal slender black and white parallel scalloped line, marked within by a series 

 of black lunate spots which are narrowly surrounded by white ; the black spot above 

 anal lobe being diffusedly speckled ; beyond is a marginal slender black line defined 

 on each side by an equally fine white line. Underside marked as above, but all the 

 inner bands slightly narrower and less distinct. Bodij, palpi, and legs white ; 

 antennae brown, annulated with white beneath, tip ochreous. 



Expanse, c? ? 1 ^^o ^o 1 ro inch. . 



Habitat. — Siam ; Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula ; Penang ; Sumatra. 



Distribution. — The Fabrician type, in the British Museum Collection, is recorded 

 from Siam. An example from Siam is also in Mr. P. Crowley's collection. Capt. C. 

 T. Bingham took it in the Thoungyeen Valley, Upper Tenasserim, in November, and 

 Col. C. H. E. Adarason obtained it in the " Houugtharaw Valley, in December and 

 January," where he says, " it was very plentiful on a particular stream rushing down 

 from a high plateau to the valley" (Note). Dr. J.Anderson took it on King 

 Island in February and on Eiphinstone Island, Mergui Archipelago, in March 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 188G, 35). Mr. W. L. Distant records it from Perak, Malay 

 Peninsula, and Penang. 



