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8. TaSITIA XANTHIPi'US. 



Danais xanthippus, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats. 1860, p. 100. 

 Hah. Brazil. 



9. Tasitia hermippus. 



Danais hermippus, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 348 (1867). 

 Hab. South America (New Granada ; Bogota). 



Genus Limnas. 



Limnas^, Hiibner, Tentamen, i. p. I (1806), nee Boisd. et auct. 



Danais (Salatura, sect. A), Marsliall and deNiceville, Butt, of India 

 &c. p. 49 (1882). 



Fore wing narrower, and of a comparatively more lengthened 

 triangular form than in Salatura {genutid) ; costa less arched and the 

 apex more produced, exterior margin less uneven. Hind wing re- 

 gularly convex exteriorly and the margin more even ; costal vein 

 abruptly arched ; cell shorter at its upper end ; discocellulars bent 

 inward near the middle, emitting a short discoidal spur or veinlet 

 within the cell from the angle, lower discocellular slender at its 

 upper end, lower radial from middle of discocellulars opposite the 

 inner spur. Pouch in male similar. Antennae stouter, with a well 

 formed thick club. 



Larva with three pairs of fleshy filaments. 



Type L. chrysippus. 



1. Limnas chrysippus. 



Papilio chrysippus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (1758) p. 471; Mus. Ulr. 

 p. 263 (1764); Svst. Nat. i. 2, p. 767 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. 

 ii. pi. 118. f. B, C; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. .10 ; Hiibn. S. 

 eur. Schmett. i. pi. 133. f. 678-9. 



Limnas ferr. chrysippus, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. Bd. i. 

 pi. 22. f. 1-4 (1806). 



Limnas chrysippus, Hiibner, Tentamen, i. p. 1 (1806). 



Euplcea chrysippus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15 ; Herbst, 

 Pap. pi. 155. f. 1, 2 ; Ochsenh. pi. 4. f. 1 1, 12 ; Zink. Somm. Nova 

 Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. 1831, p. 173. 



Danais chrysippus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 187 ; L6p. de 

 France, p. 106, pi. 27. f. 1, 2; Latreille, DirX. d'Hist. Nat. 2nd ed. 

 pi. 9, p. 118 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.L C. i. p. 126 ; Trimen, 

 Rhop. Africse Austral, p. 88 ; Butler, Catal. Lep. Fabr. B. M. p. 5 ; 

 Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 20, pi. i. fig. 10. 



Salatura chrysippus, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 7, pi. 3. f. 1. 



Papilio cBgyptius, Schreb. Ins. p. 9, f. 11, 12 (1759). 



Danaida chrysippus, Aurivillius, Kong. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1882, 

 p. 70. 



' Hiibner having adopted this name for P. chrysippus and other species of 

 Danainse in the Samml. exot. Schmett., thus fixed its type and its restriction to 

 the present group of Butterflies. 



