288 PERCY 8LADEN TRUST EXPEDITION. 



Both wings are powdered with irregularly scattered scales which reflect a metallic 

 iridescence whose tints vary with the direction of the liglit-rays. 



D"Arros. — One male example (type) captured on 12 Octoher, 1905. This was one of tAVO 

 seen seen flying around " Bois de feu " [Moriiida citrifoliu). 



Desroches. — A single specimen. 



Distribution. — Amirantes (D'Arros, Desroches) ; Mauritivis (Curepipe). 



68. Chloroclystis sp. 



Seychelles. — One worn and broken specimen from Praslin, November 1905. It may 

 possibly be Chi. metallicata, but is in too bad a state for accurate comparison. 

 No Eupitheciid has previously been recorded from the Seychelles. 



69. Craspedia miiiorala, Bdv. 



Geometra minorata, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 115 (1833). 



Acidalia mauritinta, Guenee, Spec. Gen. i. pp. 4~6, 809; Guenee, Maill. Reiiii., Lep. p. 33 (18G3). 



Acidalia consentanea, Walk., Cat. xxii. p. "43. 



Emmiltis consentanea, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1901, p. 555. 



Acidalia actuaria, Walk., Cat. x.xii. p. 752. 



Craspedia actuaria, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. t. 200. f. 8 ; Hampson, Moths lud. iii. p. 432. 



Acidalia minorata, Joannis, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, p. 435. 



? Emmiltis minorata, Swinhoe, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1904, p. 558 *. 



D'Arros. — Two specimens. 



Coetivy. — Six specimens of grey type. 



Parquhar I. — One worn specimen only. 



Seychelles. — Eleven examples, from Mahe, Praslin, and Frigate Island. Some speci- 

 mens are suffused with orange-yellowish. 



Distribution. — Throughout W. and S. Africa ; Massowah ; Mauritius ; Parquhar I. ; 

 Coetivy; Seychelles; Sokotra ; Aden; throughout India ; Burma; Ceylon; Andamans; 

 Nicobars ; Singapore ; Pulo Laut ; Philippines. 



Family Nymphalidse. 



70. Danais chrysippus, Linn. 



Pnpilio chrysippus, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) p. 471. 



Danais chrijsjpjms, Boisd., Faun. Mad. Maur. p. 35; Guenee, Maill. Reun., Lep. p. 9; Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 20, t. 1. f. 10 ; Saalni., Lep. Madag. p. 73; Joannis, Ann. S. E. France, 1894, 

 p. 427 ; Holland, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895, p. 265 ; Bingham, Butt. Ind. i. p. 11, t. 1. f. 2; 

 Kershaw, Butt. Hongkong, p. 10, t. 1. f. 6, t. 1 a. ft'. 5, 6 (larva, pupa). 



Seychelles. — Thirty specimens from Mahe and Praslin. TJiey are quite typical and are 

 quite similar to examples from Madagascar, Mauritius, Eodriguez, and Ceylon. A single 

 male (,from Mahe, Cascade Estate, 200 feet, 3 November, 1905), however, shows a slight 



* The name minorata, Boisd., in this reference appears to have been misapplied to a quite distinct Bpeties. 



