N YMF HA LIN2E. (Group NYMTHALINA.) 
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APSITHRA PERIANDER (Plate 308, fig. 2, 2a, g ? ). 
Papilio Periander, Fabrieius, Mant. Ins. 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, Rbop. Malay, p. 443, 
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 Wernickei , Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. p. 133 (1888). 
Imago. —Male and female. Upperside white; basal interspaces, to the medial 
band, sullied with pale fuliginous-grey scales. Forewing 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 irregularly 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. Hindwing 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. Body , palpi, and legs white; 
antennas brown, annulated with white beneath, tip ochreous. 
Expanse, S ? 1^ to 1$, 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. 0. H. E. Adamson obtained it in the “ Houngtharaw 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 Elphinstone Island, Mergui Archipelago, in March 
(J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 35). Mr. W. L. Distant records it from Perak, Malay 
Peninsula, and Penang. 
