34 NYMPHALID^. DANAIN/E. DANAIS. 



irregular submarginal and marginal row of small spots. Head, thorax, and palpi white 

 spotted. Femora beneath streaked with white. Abdomen, brown above, paler beneath. 

 Underside : Forezuing dark brown ; hindwing umber-brown ; markings as above, but paler." 



"Common in Kottawa forest, but have not seen it elsewhere." {Wade). It appears to 

 be confined to the island of Ceylon ; no record of its occurrence elsewhere has been made. 



A closely allied species belonging to this group has lately been described from Siam 

 under the name of D. persivtilis* 



10. Danais nicoTjarica, w.-m. & de n, 



D. suiiilis, var. nicobarka, Wood-Mason and de Nic^ville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. i, pt. ji, p. sas (1881). 

 Habitat : Great Nicobar. 

 Expanse : Male, 3-1 inches ; female, 3*2 inches. 



Description : « Male and Female : Nearest to D. exprompla, Butler from Ceylon, from 

 the figure t of which species (probably that of a female, though the sex is not stated) it differs, in 

 i\i&forrwtng\x\ having the streak in the base of the interno-median area broader, occupying all but 

 the entire breadth of the space, shorter, and marked along the middle by a linear streak 

 (instead of being divided into two long and narrow streaks connected at the base only) ; and, 

 in the hindwing, in having the cell entirely subdiaphanous greenish or bluish white, except for 

 two excessively fine and faint longitudinal and apically-divergent dusky lines much as in 

 D. jtivetita (instead of being divided by two very broad and black ones into two streaks, the 

 posterior of which is strongly recurved at its free end) ; the discal series of bluish streaks 

 immediately beyond the cell much narrower and shorter ; and the ground-colour around them 

 consequently of greater extent and giving to this portion of the wing a much darker appear- 

 ance, again much as in D. juventa. The male differs from the female in the bluish markings 

 of both wings being of a much deeper shade, and, with the exceptions to be stated, larger ; 

 in the /i/;^c//«^ being narrower and externally slightly emarginate (instead of well rounded), 

 with its outer submarginal series of spots reduced to small specks, and the three posterior 

 ones of its inner series externally distinctly tridentate ; and in the kindzuiiig being also 

 apparently somewhat narrower and less rounded externally, with both series of submarginal 

 spots much smaller,— with its two posterior veins margined on both sides with fuscous 

 of a far lighter and duller tint than the rest of the ground, — and with the submedian one 

 of them more prominent, with the wing membrane on each side of it raised into a slight 

 fold, and the two light streaks that bound it dirty whitey-brown : the male of this species 

 is, in fact, provided with a distinct, though little-specialized, sexual mark or scent-gland." 



* Danais pcrsimilis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 136. Habitat: Petchabiirree, Bankok 

 District, Siam (April i2th, 1875). Expanse: 2-37 inches Description: "Nearest allied to D. e.rprotnfita, 

 Butler (the Ceylon form of D. juventa}, but is much smaller in si?e. The markings are similar ; but those 

 from the base of the wings are very much more attenuated and shorter, and the discal spots also smaller, the 

 markings on the kuuhinng being more attenuated than those in D. grammica.." (Moore, 1. c), D. agleoides is 

 probably referred to here. 



t Moore, ' Lep. Ceylon,' pi. ii. fig. a, i88o, female. 



