1885.] of bombay and the deccan. 125 



Nymphalid^. 



euplcein^. 



1. TiRUMALA LIMNIACE. 



Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. figs. D, E (1775). 

 Common everywhere all the year round. 



2. Parantica melanoides. 



Parantka melanoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 247. 

 Pcona, November ; Mahableshwur, May ; Bombay. 



3. Parantica aglea. 



Pap. aglea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 377. fig. E (1782). 



Poona, June, November, and December ; Belgaum ; Maha- 

 bleshwur ; Bombay. 



This insect is almost identical with P. grammica, Boisd., from 

 Java, but is quite distinct from P. melanoides. In the former the 

 lower subapical streak runs in close to the cell-streak in the fore 

 wings, just below the centre of the first subcostal spot ; whereas in 

 the latter species there is a wide division between the two streaks, 

 the two subapical streaks have both their inner ends together, and 

 are just below the iunerside of the second subcostal spot ; there are 

 also other distinct differences which are very constant in the many 

 examples of both species in my collection. 



4. SaLATURA GENUTIA. 



Pap. genutia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 206. figs. C, D (1779). 

 Common everywhere all the year round. 



5. LiMNAS chrysippus. 



Pap. chrysippus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 471 (1758). 



Var. alcippoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. 31. fig. 1. 



Common everywhere all the year round. Varieties with more or 

 less white in the hind wings occur here and there ; I have them of 

 all sorts and colours, from different parts of India ; commencing 

 with some taken in Bombay, in which the veins only are white, a 

 Mhow example with merely a discal white patch, and Kurrachee 

 examples in some of which the hind wing is nearly all white and 

 some only part white ; and in none of these is the lower discal spot 

 on the red area of the fore wings, which is one of the distinguishing 

 marks of Moore's type of L. alcippoides, whereas I have one true 

 L. chrysippus female taken at Kurrachee with this spot clear and 

 large. It is impossible to separate these white-marked insects from 

 the true L. chrysippus, because a long series will show a regular 

 gradation, from no white to all white in the hind wings ; and this is 

 also the case with the following species, which I believe to be a true 

 species. It has also many varieties of white on the hind wings, and 



