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Fiuhstorfer ' comments on the cmious gap in its dis- 

 tribution between the Nicobars and Java. Since then, 

 liowever, I have recorded it from Borneo-; one would 

 expect to find it yet in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 

 The Malaysian subspecies are : — 



D. I. limniace Cr. China south to Slam and 



? Malay Peninsula. 

 D. I conjuncta Moore Java. 



D. I. knchingana Moulton Borneo- 



Other subspecies occur in India, Ceylon and Celebes. 

 Piepers^ merges limniace with melissa and records 

 intermediates in Java. 



Subgenus Anosia, Hubn. 



21. Danaida archippus Fab. 



Danaida archippus Fruhstorfer 1910, p. 193. 



Loc. Penang and Java (Fruhstorfer). 



I have seen none in local collections. Piepers* doubts 

 its occurrence in Java. This American butterfly, well- 

 known as " The Wanderei," has reached many other coun- 

 tries in the East besides the two Malaysian localities given 

 by Fruhstorfer. 



Subgenus Limnas, Hiibn. 



The Malay Peninsula species of this subgenus and the 

 next are distinguished from all the fore-going Danaines by 

 the fulvous ground-colour of the fore wing. This Limnas 

 species may be recognized by the colouration of the veins 

 which are fulvous like the ground-colour, not heavily 

 defined in black as in the species of the next subgenus, 

 Danaida. 



22. Danaida chrysippus Linn, hataviana Moore. 



Danaida chrysippus bulaviana Frulistorfer 1910, p. 191. 

 Danaia chrysippus Distant 1882-86, pp. 20, 408, Tab. I, llg. 10 & XL, 

 flg. 13. 



Loc. Selangor : Kuala Selangor and Kuala Lumpur 

 (F.M.S. Agric. Dept.). Singapore 1 ^ , 3 ? 9 (Raffles Mus.). 



Fruhstorfer records the lighter yellow continental 

 Indian form chrysippus in North-East Sumatra. Godfrey^ 

 records it as " common everywhere all the year round " 

 in Siam. Distant (I.e.) records it from Penang, Province 

 Wellesley and Singapore. It is apparently rare in the Malay 

 Peninsula. I have seen none from local collections. 



Distant also records a variety with whitish hind wings, 

 alcippoides, from Singapore. The F.M.S. Agricultural 

 Department have a series of this white form from Kuala 

 Lumpur, bred from larvae found on a large Calotropis 



' Fruhstoiifeh, 1909, p. 204. ^ ^ 



^AIoULTOx, 1915(a), p. 97. 



M^iEPERs, 1913, p. 30, pi. XIV, figs. 2oa, 25b, 25c. 



' PiEPEus, 1913, p. 23. 



' Godfrey, 1916, p. 117. 



