54 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST, SOCIETY, Vol. XXVIII, 
DANAID AL. 
Genus DANAIS, Latr. 
D. chrysippus, L., Seitz. Vol. 1:28 c. F. Br. Ind. (Bingham), Vol. I, Pl. 1. 
Key: Tawny brown, f.w. with white bar of spots near apex. Terminal 
margin of wings black with white dots. 
The Mesopotamian form is f. chrysippus. 
Seen in small numbers in June and again in Oct., Nov. and December ; fre- 
quents thistles and mint flowers. 
Localities —Basra and Kut-el-Amara, seen occasionally (Major T. D. 
Broughton) ; Kizil Robat ; Khanikin, 8. E. Europe, 8. Asia, the whole of 
Africa and Malayan and Australian region. 
ab. alcippoides, M., one example taken at Kizil Robat, Nov. 17th at mint, 
having two-thirds of disc of hindwing white. The writer has not come across 
in Mesopotamia the Asclepias species which is the usual food-plant in India. 
Genus AGAPETES, Billb. 
A. larissa, Hb. Subsp. iranica, Seitz. 
Key: An irregular broad discal cream white band across both wings ; basal 
and postdiscal portions of wings black, an oblong black spot in centre of 
forewing. 
Upperside : forewing ground colour, cream white ; basa] third mostly black ; 
a sinuous black line across cell, the outer and posterior portion of the cell within 
this line cream white ; an oblong black spot in centre of wing, between veins 
3 and 4, and another black blotch to its inner side anteriorly. Apex black 
with two large spots of the ground colour a submarginal row 7 spots of the 
ground colour one in each interspace and connected with a corresponding sub- 
marginal row of small conical spots. 
Hindwing.—Basal third black except for a bar of the ground colour from its 
centre forwards. A broad angled discal band with indications of two ocelli in 
it posteriorly, a submarginal row of conical cream white spots and black 
marginal line. 
Underside ; darker cream tinted. Forewing a sinuous black line across middle 
of wing, and two black blotches near posterior angle. Hindwing s there are 
indications of three black ocelli posteriorly and of one anteriorly ; and of a row 
of black sagittate markings beyond these. 
This form from the Karind valley in N. W. Persia is fairly normal and 
almost devoid of markings beneath. It is in June and July very 
common at 5,300 ft. By July 13th the great majority of individuals 
seen had the wings very much torn, apparently by the long needle like spines of 
the yellow thistle which it frequents. It is a heavy flier and very easily caught. 
None were seen later than July. The species seen by Lt.-Col. Watney on June 
18th in the Bazian Pass in 8. Kurdistan was probably this. 
1 &, 14 2 P from the Karind valley, July 13-17, 1918; all except § 2 2 
are now in the British Museum. Capt. N. D. Riley remarks on them as 
follows :— 
** Figured in Seitz Pl. 39b as parthica and placed as a race of hylata, Men. 
In his description of hylata Men. expressly states of the wings ‘ base imma- 
culate’ and from the rest of his description hylata can only be the Taliche 
form of titea. Similarly his teneates is obviously the Taliche form of japygia. 
I am not able to separate iranica except as a race of larissa.” 
