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adopted the name M'if^ippus for the till then received 

 Bolina, as Messrs. Butler and Wallace have also done 

 recently, observing that he did not consider the fact of 

 the sexes having been treated as distinct species by all 

 authors until Boisduval, as any objection to extending to 

 the male the name bestowed upon the female. 



This appears to be a common species in Basuto-land. 

 All grades of the ? occur there, from the ordinary type- 

 form {=^Diocippus, Cr.) with the strongly-marked white- 

 spotted black apex of the foi^e-wings to examples of the 

 variety Inaria, even more completely deprived of the 

 characteristic apical markings than is shown in the speci- 

 men delineated in Cramer's pi. ccxiv. f. A. B. Two of 

 the intermediate specimens are much suffused with white 

 in the hind-wings. 



In March, 1870, Mr. Bowker forwarded to me two 

 living pupge, one of which resulted in a c^ of the ordi- 

 nary appearance, and the other in a very fine $ of the 

 Inaria variety. These pup» were found suspended by the 

 tail in clefts of rocks. In general character and appear- 

 ance they strongly resemble the figure (from a drawing 

 of Mr. E. L. Layard's) of the pupa of the Cingalese 

 Bolina [Auge, Cramer), given on pi. v. f. 9a, of Horsfield 

 and Moore's Catalogue of Lepidoptera in the East India 

 Museum (1857) ; but the wing-covei^s are proportionally 

 larger, the dorso-thoracic prominence less elevated, the 

 dorsal and lateral pointed tubercles of the abdomen 

 much shorter and thinner, and the anal extremity (espe- 

 cially in the ? ) more truncately rounded off. 



Mr. Wallace (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 280) observes 

 that the form Inaria " is rare in the East, where there is 

 no Danais it resembles." It may, therefore, be worth 

 noting that I have seen two Cingalese specimens, one in 

 the British Museum, the other in Mr. Layard's collec- 

 tion, of which the latter has a white suffusion on the 

 disc of the hind-wings, and, except for its slightly paler 

 colouring, does not differ from African examples. A 

 specimen from Madras is recorded in Horsfield and 

 Moore's Catalogue ; ai^d the individual figured by Cramer 

 would appear from the text (iii. 37) to have been 

 brought from either Java or Amboyna. It would be very 

 interesting to know if the Doripptis form of Danais 

 Ghrysippus, to which Inaria so closely corresponds, is 



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