350 NYMPHALID^. 



Race aiidainanica. 



Cyrestis thvodamus, var. aiidainanica, Wood-Mason $• de Niceville, 



V. A. S. B. 1881, p. 246. 

 Cyrestis andamanica, Moore, Le\). hid. iv, 1899-1900, p. 51, pi. 806, 



tigs. 2, 2 a, cJ 2 • 



S 2 - Upperside white, in many specimens pale ochraceous 

 yellow, veins black. Fore wing with four very slender irregularly 

 sinuous transverse black lines, the costal margin shaded with 

 ochraceous at base and fuscous beyond ; cell crossed by three or 

 four additional fine short lines ; a postdiscal very incomplete series 

 of white-centred broad fuscous rings in the interspaces, tinged with 

 ochraceous near the tornus and broadly interrupted in interspaces 

 3 and -A ; beyond this two transverse black lines not reaching the 

 dorsal margin, shaded with fuscous between ; the apex broadly 

 and the termen also shaded with fuscous. Hind wing with three 

 transverse fine lines ; a pair of postdiscal broad black lines shaded 

 with light sepia-brown between, forming a conspicuous band, the 

 outer line broken and incomplete, followed by two irregular fine 

 black lines, a subterminal more pronounced black line, and poste- 

 riorly a narrow black terminal margin ; dorsal margin broadly 

 fuscous at base ; apical half and the tornal area and lobe rich 

 ochraceous, with some sepia-brown and black markings. Underside 

 similar, the markings of the upperside showing through by trans- 

 parency ; the ochraceous shading on dorsum and tornal area on 

 hind wing of less extent, but the tornal lobe darker ochraceous 

 with a central large round black spot. The markings both on 

 upper and under sides vary a little in depth of colour and breadth. 

 In many specimens there is a diffuse fuscous spot between the 

 discal pair of transverse fine lines on fore wing. Antennae, head, 

 thorax and abdomen above black, thorax and abdomen with lateral 

 greyish longitudinal stripes ; beneath white. Body of the 2 paler 

 than that of the J . 



Exp. 6 2 58-70 mm. (2-3-2-75"). 



Hah. Continental India generally, from the Himalayas to Tra- 

 vancore, in the hills, avoiding the hot dry plains of Northern 

 and Central India ; Assam ; Burma ; Tenasserim ; extending to 

 China and Japan. 



Larva Sf pupa. "Mr. Bell noticed a 2 on the 10th October 

 depositing its eggs on the tenderest leaves and buds of a banian 

 tree (Ficns indica) and secured six, of which two were reared. 

 The eggs were curious and beautiful, high domed-shaped or almost 

 conical, with an aperture at the top fitted with a deeply dentate 

 flat cap like a cogged wheel. The larva escaped by raising this and 

 did not eat the shell. The larva was unlike any other that we have 

 ever seen, slender, cylindrical and smooth ; with two long curved 

 divergent filaments or soft horns on the head, a single stouter 

 sword-shaped one on the back at the 5th or 6th segment curved 

 backwards and serrated on its inner edge, and another on the last 

 segment curved forwards and serrated on its outer edge. The 

 colour was a fine reddish brown with a broad green band on the 

 side from the 5th to the last segment. Pupa suspended by th? 



