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Christmas by Mr. E. H. Aitken, and there is a specimen from Poona in tlie Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta; but there is no record of its occurrence further north. This species is well 

 distinguished from D. aglea so far as our present knowledge goes, and the geographical 

 ranges of the two species seem to be widely separated ; no species of this group occurs 

 north of the Bombay Presidency, where D. grammica occurs, till D. aglea is met with in the 

 N.-W. sub-Himalayas on the West. Our knowledge of the East Coast fauna is very limited 

 at present, but as yet D. aglea has not been recorded from any place south of Assam in India 

 proper, while D. grammica is not known to extend further north than Madras. If specimens 

 should ultimately be found extending northwards along the East Coast, as is not improbable, 

 it will be interesting to discover what approach, if any, they make to D. aglea. 



19- Danaig agleoldes, Feider. 



D. agleoidcs, Feider, Wien. Ent. Mon., vol. iv, p. 398, n. 17 (i860). 



Habitat : Burma, Malayana, Nicobars, Java. 



Expanse : 27 to 3*2 inches. 



Description : "Male : Wings swarthy. Forewing with a costal streak and another internal 

 one narrow, four wider discal ones, three costal spots, below the second of which a pair of 

 elongated spots, then five in the disc and others external and marginal arranged in series, sub- 

 hyaline ; the apex above fuscous. Hindwing with seven streaks from the base, eiglit diversely 

 formed discal streaks, and others placed irregularly in a double external row, subliyaline. 

 Approximates very closely to Danais aglea, Cramer, but the wings are shorter and broader." 

 {^Feider, 1. c.) 



The above is a translation of Felder's short original description. The subhyaline mark- 

 ings on the upperside of the forewing are similar to those in Danais aglea, except being 

 smaller, and the cell being divided along almost its whole length into three bluish-white 

 streaks, which are joined at the base, the upper one being exceedingly narrow ; and the interno- 

 median area being occupied by two basally-joined streaks, the upper one much angled where 

 the first median nervule is given off, the lower one straight. The hindwing has in the cell 

 three hyaline streaks, the upper and lower ones joined at the base, the middle one short and 

 lying outwardly between them. Underside marked as above, but paler, wherein it differs 

 much from D. aglea. As compared with D aglea, D. agleoides is a much more compact and 

 blacker insect, all the hyaline streaks being very narrow and the spots small. It is a very 

 constant arid well-marked species. The female only differs from the male in the absence of 

 the sexual mark and the broader and more rounded outline of the wing,s. 



It occurs commonly at Rangoon in January, July and September, and probably at other 

 seasons also. On Nancowry Island, Nicobar.^ Mr. A. de Roepstorff took many specimens in 

 August and September, and on Great Nicobar Island in October. It also occurs at 

 Sambelong, Nicobars {Moore). Dr. J. Anderson took it very commonly in the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago in the cold weather. There is a specimen in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, labelled 

 "Dukhun,"" Sykes;" but the locality is probably erroneous, as Z). a^/fi^/</t'j- appears to be 

 confined to the east of the Bay of Bengal.. 



Third Group. — Chittira : "Male with two scent-pouches, one spatular-shaped on the 

 submedian nervure, accompanied by the dilated or swollen nervure, the other being the 

 internal nervure dilated, but without any adjacent spatular patch." {Moore, Lep. Ceylon, 

 p. 8). This includes two distinct types as regards style of markings and outline of the wings ; 

 the first group is represented by two species only in India, which are confined to the Himalayas, 

 Assam and Burma ; they have the wings elongate, especially the forewing, and the hyaline 

 markings greatly predominating at the base of the wings ; the second group also contains 

 only two Indian species, one peculiar to Ceylon, and the other to the hills of south India ; they 

 have the wings comparatively short and broa<l, and the hyaline markings narrow and much 

 reduced, the colours generally being far more op.nque. 



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