166 W. Doherty — The Butterflies of Suniha and Samhaiva, ^c. [No. 2, 



more distinct, more or less bifid. The hindwing has the leaden- whitish 

 markino-s rather broader than in D. haruhasa, but those in the median 

 spaces are much shorter, leaving the dark outer border very wide there. 

 The submarginal dots are in one specimen wholly absent, in the other 

 partly present, but very small. 



The male is unknown. I took one female at Lateng (1000 feet) in 

 Taimanu, Sumba, and another at Mandas, Sumba. I fear that both are 

 now lost. When flying it somewhat resembles JEuplma lewa, and no 

 doubt its mimicry of that species accounts for the presence of the broad 

 white band, absent in D. haruhasa and D. ismare. 



The subgenus Nasuma, as far as known, inhabits only the Moluccas, 

 Sumba, and Sambawa, but no doubt a species will be found in Timor, 

 while none is known from Java. It is distinguished by its elongate wings, 

 and, at least in the two species described here, the flight is swifter than 

 in Banais genutia, etc. It seems likely that these insects have lost some 

 of the protective qualities of their allies, and have acquired a swifter 

 flight and become mimics of other butterflies, the Moluccan form re- 

 sembling a Radena, while the Sumba and Sambawa species look like 

 Euploeas when flying. 



12. Danais (Tirumala) limniace, Cram. 



13. Danais (Tirumala) mblissa. Cram. 



Following Herr Semper's instructions, I easily separated these two 

 species, which are extremely alike in general appearance. The melissa- 

 form somewhat resembled the figure of D. australis, Hombron and 

 Jacquinot. I also recorded a form of D. gautama in Sumba, but no 

 specimens have turned up. D. limniace and melissa are both com.mon 

 in Sumba and Sambawa. 



14. Danais (Chittira) oeientis, n. sp. PI. II, fig. 5. 



Near D. 7iilgiriensis. Cell-mark of forewing with all three rays 

 distinct, though slender, in the females, the upper two obsolescent in 

 the male, the interno-median marks broadly divided, the mark at the 

 base of the lower median space wanting (present in nilgiriensis) , that 

 in the upper median space small and diffused (large and conspicuous 

 in allied species), the streak above the radial vein much longer than 

 the one above it (as in D. larissa), five or six submarginal dots. Hind- 

 wing with the cell-spot broad in the middle (narrow in nilgiriensis), 

 divided longitudinally by a slender dark line (absent in D. larissa 

 and luzonensis), a line of six outer-discal spots in the male, nine or ten 

 in the female, the submarginal line of spots incom.plete. Below, both 

 lines of spots are complete. 



