CYRESTIS. 



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tail, very much compressed, with a dorsal ridge from head to tail, 

 high and obtusely pointed in the middle, the palpi-cases united and 

 produced into a long somewhat recurved snout ; colour brown with 

 fine dark striae/*' {Davidson Sf Aitken.) 



Race andamanica, W.-M. & de N".— <$ $ . Very closely resembles 

 the typical form ; the dark markings, however, are as a rule 

 heavier and more pronounced, but in this some specimens from 

 the Anaimalai hills approximate very closely to the lighter coloured 

 Andaman individuals. One constant point of difference, however, 

 seems to be the large amount of rich ochraceous colour on the 

 upperside of the hind wing posteriorly. The costal margin and the 

 postdiscal series of rings on the fore wing are also strongly tinged 

 with ochraceous. 



Exp. As in the typical form. 



Hob. The Andamans. Apparently common at Port Blair. 



365. Cyrestis nivea, Zinken-Sommer (Amatliusia), Nova Acta Acad. 

 Leop.-Car. 1831. p. 138, pi. 14, fig. 1 tf ■ de N. Butt. hid. ii, 

 1886, p. 252. 

 Cyrestis nivalis, Felder, Novara Reise, Lep. Rhop. 1886, p. 414 ; 

 Moore, Lep. Ind. iv, 1899-1900, p. 51, pi. 307, figs. 1, 1 a, tf . 



cj 2 • Upperside pure white ; markings resembling those on 

 C. thyodamas. Fore wing : costal margin for about half its length 

 dusky black, bordered on the extreme mar- 

 gin at the base with ochraceous ; cell 

 crossed by four slender black lines, the 

 innermost but one continued to the dorsal 

 margin : beyond the cell the disc crossed 

 by three irregular slender black lines from 

 costa to dorsum, the outermost widening 

 posteriorly, where it is succeeded by a 

 large ochraceous spot, bearing in the middle 

 two minute black dots, at the tornal angle ; 

 apex and termen broadly dusky black, 

 traversed by four or five very slender 

 sinuous greyish- white transverse lines ; the 

 inner two form subapically an irregular 

 triangle. Hind wing crossed by four 

 slender, sinuous, parallel black lines, a 

 broader black liue parallel to the dorsal 

 margin, a postdiscal black band traversed 

 by a medial greyish line, succeeded by a slender, black, slightly 

 curved line, a short somewhat oblique broader transverse streak, 

 and a subterminal black line, broadening below vein 4. Apex 

 narrow r ly and tail and margin for a short distance below it black, 

 the apical half of the dorsal margin and tornal lobes rich ochra- 

 ceous, this colour continued along the terminal margin to vein 4, 

 within the black markings on the tail and termen posterior to 

 latter. Tornal lobes with one or two black spots. Underside white, 

 very similar, the black and ochraceous markings of the upperside 



Fig. 64. 

 Cyrestis nivea. 



