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II. GiiNUTiA Cram. (PI. XIV, fig. 28a, 2U, 28c, 28^/). 



Ckamer, ///, /. 23, //. 206, C. D. (1782) .... Papilio Genutia. 

 HiiBNEK, Saijuii/. Exot. Sil/m , I, pi. 21, //>. i, 2 



(1806 — 1827) Limnas „ 



HoRSFiELD and Moore, Cat. Lep. M. E. I. C, I, p. 124, 



//. 4, //>. 6, ba (1857) Danais Plexippus. 



Distant, R/iop. Mai., p. 18, 408, tab. 2, fig. 2, 3 



(1882 — 1886) „ Genutia. 



Moore, Prov. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, /. 240 . . . Salatura Intensa. 



„ /. 242 Sumatrana. 



Lcp. hid., I., p. 45, //. 10, fig. I, irt— ^(1890). „ Genutia. 



Fruhstorfek, (Sehz, Grossscl/ni. d. Erdc), p. 194, //. 



77r (1910) . . Danais Plexippus. 



Fruhstorfer applies the name Intensa Moore to the Java form. According 

 to Snellen, however, the latter, which is relatively small and dark, is indeed 

 the common form in Java but Moore's Sumatrana also occurs there in which 

 the colour of the hind-wings is suffused with white. Evidently, therefore, the 

 same manifestation of colour evolution occurring in so many of the Danaidae. 



W. J. Batavia (3 — 14); Buitenzorg (275); Sindanglaya (1074); m.ount 

 Salak (780); Gedeh mountains (1425). 



C. J. Semarang (10); Srondol in the prov. Semarang (300) [Jacobson); 

 Magelang (500); prov. Madioun; Jokjokarta (113). 



E. J. Kediri (64); Jember (98) in the prov. Besouky; Semarou mountains 

 (750); Tengger mountains (1200) {Jacobsoti); prov. Banyouwangy; prov. 

 Madoura. 



One of the commonest butterflies in Java, being met with everywhere. In 

 the Transactions Ent. Soc. London, 1905, />. 92, I find a statement by G. B. 

 Longstaff to the effect that one evening in December, while at Hourou in 

 British India, he noticed eight of these butterflies suspended close together 

 from one of the huge leaf-stalks of a palm, evidently for the purpose of thus 

 passing the night in company and that about twenty of them were found in 

 close proximity to each other. Such a gregarious habit I have never observed 

 either in this or any other species of Danaidae. I find a similar statement, 

 however, with reference to the American D. (Anosia) Plexippus L. 



According to Fruhsiorfer the odoriferous scales in the present species 

 emit the smell of carrion to an extraordinary degree. At times, however, it 

 is said not to exhale any odour. I have handled hundreds of these butterflies 



