348 nymphalid^;. 



discoidal streak very broad, extending above into interspace 5 and 

 below into interspace 3 ; discal markings very broad, the spots 

 composing the upper and lower portions respectively connate 

 among themselves, the lower portion constricted in the middle; 

 a complete narrow transverse subterminal line. Hind wing : 

 subbasal and postdiscal bands remarkably broad, meeting and 

 coalescing along the dorsal margin, a subterminal line as on the 

 fore. wing. Underside dull ochraceous orange, with the following 

 obscure dusky-black markings :— Fore wing : a narrow band along 

 the cost a to about the middle, an oblique band from thence to near 

 apex of interspace 3, meeting another similar band from middle of 

 vein 1, and a subterminal slender line. Hind wing: subbasal and 

 discal straight bands, the latter extended to the dorsum. Fore 

 and hind wings with the margin narrowly shaded with dusky black. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen black ; beneath, the palpi and 

 thorax bluish grey, abdomen touched with ochraceous. 



Exp. $ 43 mm. (1-7"). 



Hab. Recorded from Assam. 



Genus CYRESTIS. 



Cvrestis, Boisduval, Voy. Astrolabe, 1832, p. 117 ; de N. Butt, 2nd. 



% 1886, p. 248 ; Distant, Rhop. Malay. 1883, p. 139 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 46. 

 Apisitkra, Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899, p. 58. 



Type, G. thyoneus, Cramer, from Europe. 



Range. Indo- and Austro-Malayan Regions, and westwards to 

 Africa. 



6 2 • Typically the fore wing is very broadly triangular, the 

 costa slightly arched, the apex obtusely pointed, the termen 

 straight, the tornus truncate, the dorsum slightly sinuous ; the 

 cell short, not half the length of the wing, very slenderly closed 

 (in the cleared wing the lower discocellular is just visible); veins 

 4 and 5 from lower apex of cell ; veins 6 and 7 almost from a 

 point, 8 and 9 out of 7, 10 and 11 free. Hind wing irregularly 

 sub triangular, the costa very slightly arched ; apex truncate, in 

 some forms rounded ; termen more or less scalloped, produced at 

 vein 4 into a tail ; tornus elongate, produced into a broad lobe ; 

 dorsum nearly straight, apical half bi-emarginate near tornal 

 angle ; cell very short, slenderly closed ; veins 3 and 4 shortly 

 stalked, from lower apex of cell, 6 and 7 closely approximate. 

 Body slender ; antennas about half the length of fore wing, club 

 gradual ; palpi long, subporrect, third joint long ; eyes naked ; 

 legs slender. 



Key to the forms of Cyrestis. 



a. Apex of hind wing abruptly truncate. 



a'. Ground-colour on upperside rich dark ochra- 

 ceous C. tabida, p. 349. 



b' . Ground-colour on upperside white or very pale 

 ochraceous white. 



