36 LEPIDOFTEBA IXDICA. 



Hatseiga, and Mr. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng, 1887, 414) notes that "numerous 

 specimens were obtained at Tavoy, Ponsekai, and on the hills on the Siam frontier." 

 Dr. J. Anderson (Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. sxi. 1886, 29) collected it at 

 Mergui in December, and at Thaing, King Island, in February." In Ceylon, Capt. 

 Hutchison " took it at Colombo, and occasionally near Newera Eliya, in open or 

 partially cultivated ground. Most common from October to December. Often being 

 found in crowds on low shrubs, in company with T. Limniace." Mr. F. M. Mack- 

 wood writes that it is "a low country butterfly; aboiit all the year round, but very 

 abundant in the cocoauut groves near the sea-coast about December and January. 

 A few of them in the monsoon flights in November to December." 



Genus LIMNAS. 



Limnas* Hiibner, Tentamen, i. p. 1 (1806) ; id. Samml. Exot. Schmett. Bd. 1, pi. 22, f. 1, 4 (1806). 

 Scudder, Proc. American Acad. Arts & Sci. (1875), p. 207. Moore, Proc.Zool. Soc. Lend. 1883, p. 237. 

 Da7iais (part), Godart, Encycl. Meth. ix. pp. 10, 172 (1819). 



Danais (Salatura, Sect. B. part), Marshall and De NiceviUe, Butt, of India, &c., I. p. 49 (1882). 

 JDanais (Section B. part). Distant Ehopalocera Malaj'ana, p. 16 (1SS2). 



Imago. — Forewing narrower, and of a comparatively more lengthened triangular 

 form than in typical Salatura (8. Gemdia) ; costa less arched, and the apex more 

 produced ; exterior margin less uneven. Hinclwing regularly 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 discocelkilar slender at its upper end ; 

 lower radial emitted from middle of discocellulars opposite the inner spur. Male 

 vith a scevt-])Ouch similar io that in Salatura. Antennae stouter, with a well-formed 

 thick club. 



Lakva. — "With three pairs of fleshy filaments. 



Type. — L. Chrysippus. 



LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS (Plate 8, fig. 1, larva, 1 a, b, c, d, e, ^ ?). 



Papilio Chnjsi]>pus, Linnseue, Syst. Nat. (1758), p. 471 ; Mus. UJr. p. 263 (1764) ; Syst. Xat. i. 2, 

 p. 767 (1767). Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 118, fig. B c (1777). Fabricins, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 

 p. 50 (1793). Herbst, Nat. Schmett. vii. p. 13, pi. 155, fig. 1, 2 (1794). Hiibner, Samml. Eur. 

 Schmett, i. pi. 133, fig. 678-9. 



Limnas ferr. Chrysipims, Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. Bd. i. pi. 22, fig. 1 — 4 (1806). 



Limnas chrysippus, Hubner, Tentamen, i. p. 1 (1806). Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 237. 

 Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 4 79 ; 1886, p. 356. Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1886, p. 356. 

 Hampson, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1888, p. 347. 



Eujlcea chrysippus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15 (1816). Oclisenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. 



* Hiibner having used this name for L. Chrysippus, and other species of this sub-family, in 



his " Samral. Exot. Schmett." thus fixed its type and its restriction to this group of butterflies. 



