352 



KTMPHALIDjE. 



showing through by transparency. Antennae black, head, thorax 

 and abdomen black above ; thorax and abdomen with greyish 

 lateral stripes; beneath white. 



Exp. d 2 48-66 mm. (1 -95-2-6"). 



Hab. Burma ; Tenasserim ; the Malayan Subregion to Java. 



The Javan form is typical nivea, the markings being somewhat 

 broader and heavier, especially along the costal margin, than in the 

 Indian form which Felder separated as nivalis. 



366. Cyrestis codes, Fabr. (Papilio) Mant. Ins. ii, 1787, p. 7; deN. 

 Butt. Lid. ii, 1886, p. 254, pi. 23, fig. 107 tf ; Moore (Apisithra), 

 Lep. Ind, iv. 1899-1900, p. 58, pi. 308, figs. 1, 1 a-\ e, <$ 2 • 

 Cyrestis codes, var. andamaniea, W.-M. <§• de N. J.A.S. B. 1881, 

 p. 246. 



Wet-season form. — 6 2 • Upperside : fore and hind wings with a 

 transverse broad white median band, its outer margin straight, its 

 inner margin highly sinuous ; the basal and terminal portions 

 of the wings on the inner side of the white band up to the 

 base and on the outer side to the termen more or less greyish 



brown, traversed by slender 

 sinuous black lines and 

 broader ochraceous -brown 

 lines, the black lines out- 

 wardly very narrowly mar- 

 gined with white ; the sub- 

 terminal slender black line 

 on both fore and hind 

 wing very conspicuous, and 

 within it a transverse post- 

 discal series of obscure 

 dusky-centred greyish ir- 

 regular ocelli ; the termen 

 narrowly greyish ; cilia 

 white. Underside pearly white with a faint pinkish or pale lilac 

 tinge, the markings of the upperside more or less faintly seen 

 through by transparency; the transverse postdiscal line of greyish 

 ocelli the most prominent, often centred with black. Antennas 

 dull brown, head, thorax and abdomen pale greyish brown, the 

 latter two with white lateral longitudinal bands ; beneath white. 



Dry-season form. — <S 2 • Upperside very much paler ; in many 

 specimens fading entirely to creamy white without any grey 

 markings, except the slender transverse black lines and the line 

 of postdiscal ocelli, which are always more or less present. 

 Underside white, without any pink or pale lilac tint ; the markings 

 more faint, but as on the upperside. 

 Exp. <$ 2 64-70 mm. (2-53-2-75"). 



Hah. Sikhim southwards to Orissa in Bengal, and eastwards 

 to Assam, Burma and Tenasserim • the Andamans ; Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Var. andamaniea, W.-M. &■ de N., is, as a rule, more ochraceous 



Fig. 65. — Cyrestis codes. 



