Mr. F. Moore on Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera. 43 



IV. — Descriptions of Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera. 

 Bj Feederic Mooee, F.Z.S. 



Fam. Danaidae. 



Danais nipalensis. 



Male. Upperside dull ferruginous black : fore wing with 

 the- basal internal half bright ferruginous, intersected by the 

 black veins ; an oblique subapical narrow series of five white 

 spots, the second, tliird, and fourth elongated, the fourth 

 longest, the fifth subconical j a series of two median submar- 

 ginal and four marginal small white spots : hind wing with 

 the spaces between the veins to beyond the disk ferruginous 

 intersected by broad black-margined veins. Cilia alternate 

 black and white. Head, thorax, and legs black, spotted and 

 streaked wnth white. Abdomen ferruginous. Underside 

 paler ferruginous black, marked as above. 



Exp. 3| inches. 



Hah. Katmandu, Nepal {General Ramsay). In coll. F. 

 Moore. 



Nearest to D. chrysippus, from which it may be distin- 

 guished by the absence of all white markings, except the 

 narrow oblique subapical series on the fore wing. 



Danais gautama. 



Female. Black with bluish-white markings : fore wing with 

 two long streaks within base of cell and three short streaks at 

 its end; a series of five narrow streaks beyond end of the cell • 

 six discal spots ; two lengthened narrow streaks starting frora 

 base between lower median and submedian veins, and a spot 

 beyond, the upper streak broken near its end ; three small 

 spots before the apex and a marginal row of spots ; a short 

 streak at base of hind margin : hind w4ng with three streaks 

 within the cell ; an elongated discal series of streaks, and two 

 outer marginal rows of small spots. 



Exp. 3f inches. 



Hab. Henzada, Eangoon district, Burmah (Watkins). In 

 coll. F. Moore. 



Most nearly allied to D. septentrionis, Butler, but differs in 

 the shape of the fore wings (these in D. gautama being shorter) 

 the two basal streaks within base of the cell, the wider inter- 

 spaces between the discal and marginal spots, and in the form 

 of tlie streaks below the cell ; on the hind wing it has an 

 additional central streak within the cell, and the discal streaks 

 between the veins are broad. 



