j 5 Lloyd's natural history. 



GENUS LIMNAS. 



Limnas, Hiibner, Tentamen, p. i (1S10?) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1S83, p. 237. 

 Type, Papilio chrysippus (Linn.), from the tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of the Old World. 



This section of the old genus Danaus much resembles 

 Danaus plexippus (Plate v., fig. 2) in size, colour, and markings, 

 but wants the thickened black veins so conspicuous in that 

 species. The larva differs in having the four hinder filaments 

 much longer, though the front pair are the longest. 



LIMNAS CHRYSIPHJS. 



Papilio chrysippus, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 47 T » n0 - Sl 



(1758); id., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 263 (1764); Cramer, 



Pap. Exot., ii., pi. 118, figs. B., C. (1777) ; Hiibn., Europ. 



Schmett, i., figs. 678, 679 (1803). 

 Danais chrysippus, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. Mus., i., 



p. 126, pi. iv., figs. 7, 7a (transf.) (1S57) ; Trim., Rhop. 



Afr. Austr., pp. 88, 333, pi. 1, figs. 3, 3a (transf. : 1862- 



1866); id., S. Afr. Butterflies, i., p. 51 (1S87); List. 



Rhopal. Malay., p. 20, pi. 1, fig. 10 (1SS2); Marsh. & 



De Nice'ville, Butterflies Ind., i., p. 50, pi. 6, fig. 10 (18S2) ; 



Lang, Butterflies Eur., p. 226, pi. 54 (1S83). 

 Salatura chrysippus, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, i., p. 7, pi. 3 



(18S0: transf.). 

 Anosia chrysippus, Semper, Reisen Philipp. Lepid., i., p. 16, pi. 



A, figs. 2, 2a (1886: transf.). 

 Limnas chrysippus, Moore, Lepid. India, i., p. 36, pi. 8 (1890: 



transf.). 

 Danaus chrysippus, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies & Moths, p. 26, 



pi. 11, fig. 5(1878). 



