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of the family Nymphalinre, widely separated from the family 

 Papilioninee. In case No. 2 are also some very interesting mimics 

 of two other common species of Euplcea — E. midamas and E. rhada- 

 manihus. On the left of the former are two moths called Amesia 

 aliris, which mimic the male, and three other moths called Amesia 

 midama (all of the family Clmlcosidaj) which, mimic both sexes of 

 E. midamas; and on the right of these Enplceas are also five excel- 

 lent mimics, all butterflies of the family Elymniinse, E. leucocyma 

 and Dyctis patna, the sexes of which mimic the same sexes of E. 

 midamas. In the next column are some specimens of E. rhada- 

 manihus of both sexes and to their right are a number of Euripug 

 halitherses, a butterfly of the family Nymphalinge, the males of 

 which mimic a Danais I do not possess — (I have, however, put in an 

 allied form from Java to show the pattern), and the female mimics 

 two forms of Euplcea, E. rhadamanthus and a black Euplcea I do 

 not possess. Next we will take the red Danainge (case 3), D. 

 chrysippus, D. dorippus, and D. aldppus. We will there see the 

 female of Hypolymnas mimicking all these, as before explained, 

 and Danais genutia you will find in the next column mimicked by 

 the females of three different species of the family Elymniinas, i. e., 

 E. fratema from Ceylon, E. caudata from South India, and E. 

 undularis from Sikkim and Assam. There is a female of the last 

 named species received last week from Rangoon along with the allied 

 form of D. genutia from that part of India, with whitehind wings called 

 D. hegisippust and it is very curious to observe that the hind 

 wingrs of this and E. undularis as also whitish. In this case I 

 also show you another species of this family called Dyctis vasudeva, 

 which mimics a Delias of the family Pierinse, a gaudily-coloured 

 common genus which nothing will eat. In case No. 4 are some 

 white Danias mimicked by various kinds of Papilios, by one species 

 of the family Nymphalina?, Hcstina nama, and by one species of 

 the family Satyrinee, Orinoma damaris. Euplcea tytia and E. 

 malaneus beautifully mimicked by Papilio agestor and P. Govindra; 

 also P. epycides, P. megareus, P. macareus, P. xenocles, and Sestina 

 nama of the family Nymphalinge, all of which mimic various forms 

 of white Danais, the nearest allies of which to be found in my 

 collection I have placed in the case for comparison. Finally, in 

 case No. 5 there are some insects that mimic the common Papilio 

 diphilus and its allies, a butterfly most distasteful to birds, &c. In 

 the left is P. pammon, the female of which mimics two species, 



