196 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



these was selected by Dr. Scudder as the type of the genus 

 Callosune. 



CALLOSUNE DANAE. 



(Plate LVIL Fig. 2.) 



Papilio danae, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 476, no. 144 (1775); 



Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 26, fig. 2 (1800). 

 Papilio eborea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 352, figs C-F 



(1781). 



Picris danae, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 124, no. 20 (1819). 

 Anthocharis danae, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. p. 570 



(1836). 

 Callosune danae, Moore, Lepid. Ceylon, i. p. 129 (1880). 



This species, which is not uncommon in India and Ceylon, 

 measures about i^ inches across the wings, which are white 

 above, with the apical half of the fore-wings of a deep red, 

 bordered with black, narrowly outside, but broadly inside. 

 The black colouring extends to the hinder angle ; and there is 

 also a row of more or less connected black marginal spots on 

 the hind-wings. On the under side an irregular row of black 

 spots crosses the disc of all the wings, which is more or less 

 visible on the upper side in the female. 



This species was formerly confounded with its African 

 representative (C. anna (Wallengren); C. dnerascens (Butler)) ; 

 but this is a larger insect, much more shaded with grey at the 

 base of the wings, especially in the female, which is very dark. 

 This insect furnishes an instance of a fact that is very notice- 

 able in looking through the localities given by Mr. Trimen for 

 South African Butterflies, namely, that the South African 

 Fauna is a continuation of that of the East Coast, and not 

 of the West Coast. Thus in the present instance, C. anna is 

 not recorded from any locality on the West Coast further north 

 than Damara Land ; but on the East Coast it has been met 

 with as far north as Zanzibar 



