1 8 Lloyd's natural history. 



tnisippus (Linn.). Argynnis niphe (Linn.), Papilio cenea (Stoll), 

 and (in both sexes) Euphczdra elea (Drury), and various 

 species of Moths belonging to the genera Phcegorista, Alefis, 

 &c. The closest of these mimics is the female of Hypolimnas 

 tnisippus, which, however, can be easily recognised, inter 

 alia, by the more festooned outline of the hind-wings and 

 the want of the black spots in the centre. The male is a black 

 insect, with a large bluish-white spot on each wing. The other 

 forms to which we have alluded, D. alcippns, D. dorippus, &c, 

 are likewise more or less mimicked by corresponding forms of 

 other Butterflies. It is remarkable that although the female of 

 Argynnis niphe (Linn.), a common Indian species, mimics L. 

 chrysippus, the closely-allied Australian A. inconsians (Butler), 

 has a female which resembles the male, notwithstanding the 

 presence in Australia of L. petilia, a closely allied representa- 

 tive of L. chrysippus. 



GENUS DANAUS. 

 Papilio. Danaus, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), pp. 458, 468(1758). 

 Danaida, Latr., Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., xiv., p. 108 (1S05). 

 Danaus, Latreille, Gen. Crust. Ins., iv., p. 201 (1809). 

 Danais, Latr., Enc. Meth., ix., pp. 10, 172 (18 19); Doubleday, 



Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 89 (1847) : Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1866, pp. 43, 171; Schatz, Exot. Schmett., ii., p. 



78 (18S6). 

 Salatura, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 239. 



Linnaeus gave the names Danai candidi and Danai phalerati 

 to the groups now known as Pierincz and Danainff, naming 

 most of the species of the two groups after the sons and 

 daughters of Danaus. The older authors, such as Fabricius 

 and Esper, proposed to restrict the name to the Pierincz, in 

 which case Pieris brassica should probably be regarded as the 

 type; but Latreille first used the genus in a strictly generic 

 sense under the names Danaida and Danais, specifying 



