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growing in the Agricultural Department Plantation in Jan- 

 uary 1919. They agree well with Distant's figure of a Singa- 

 pore male, except that the white expanse, the hind-marginal 

 row of white spots in the hind wing and the two white 

 spots in the outer orange-brown region of the fore wing 

 are more developed. 



The record of the dark brown bataviana in Singapore 

 and Kuala Selangor (1 9 ) is of interest in view of its 

 occurrence also in Western Sumatra. The Singapore male 

 agrees well with a male from Java. 



The distribution of chrysippus in Malaysia is as 

 follows : — 



D. c. chrysippus Linn. Malay Peninsula, Borneo, 



N. E. Sumatra. 

 D. c. vigeli Heyl. Pulau Bras (N. W. Sumatra). 



D. c. clarippus Weym. Nias I. 



D. c. bataviana Moore Java, W. Sumatra and Malay 



Peninsula (Singapore and 

 Kuala Selangor). 



Other subspecies extend the range of this species to 

 Europe, Africa and Australia. 



In tiie Malaysian subregion the white form alcippoides 

 is known from Siunatra, as well as from Singapore and 

 Kuala Lumjjur. 



Subgenus Danaida, Latr. 



The Malay Peninsula forms may be separated thus :— 



a. Orange-brown ground-colour below sub- 

 median nervure of fore wing above plexippus. 



b. Ground-colour of hind wing pale orange- 

 brown /. typica. 

 b\ Ground-colour of hind wing white /. intermedia. 



b\ Ground-colour of hind wing pale orange- 

 brown, very slightly suffused with 

 white /. comiectens. 



a\ Brown fuscous below sub-median nervure 

 of fore wing. 



b. Cell and post-discal streaks of hind wing 



white hegesippus, 



b^. Only the outer half of cell of hind wing 



white, no post-discal white streaks malayana. 



23. Danaida plexippus Linn, plexippus Linn. 



Danaida plexippus intermedia Fruhstorfer 1910, p. 195. 

 Danais gennlia Distant 1882-86, pp. 18, 408, Tab. 11, figs. 2, 3. 



Loc. S.W. Siam : Hat Saniik and Tasan , Perak : 

 Kuala Kangsar, Taiping , Selangor : Ulu Gonibak, Ulu 

 Langat, Kuala Lumpur ; i^ahang : Kuala Tahan ; Negri 

 Sembilan : Bukit iangga (F.M.S. Mus.). Singapore 

 (Raffles Mus.). 



