42 LEPIDOPTERA JNDIGA. 



Hindwing partly ferruginous, the discal borders of the veins being either narrowly 

 or broadly bordered with white, or the whole discal area with portion of the cell 

 entirely white ; marginal white-spotted band, cell spots and pouch mark of the male, 

 black. Body and appendages as in L. Ghrysijppus. 



Expanse, 2\ to 83- inches. 



Habitat. — Northern India, "Western India (? South India), Rangoon, Singapore. 



From the West African race {L. Alcippus), this differs in the ferruginous area 

 being paler in tint, in the forewing having a broader series of oblique subapical white 

 spots, the white spot below these — between the upper and middle median veins — much 

 larger, and an additional lower discal white spot on the red area between the middle 

 and lower medians, which is not present in any West African specimens examined. 

 The hindwing is similar, but of less pure white ; the extent of the white, character- 

 istic in this race, varies in different specimens, in some it is confined to streaks 

 bordering the outer veins, in others it covers the ai'ea below the cell, and again in 

 others, pervades the whole central area of the wing. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — L. Alcippoides is found occasionally throughout the plains of 

 Northern India. It has also been obtained by Gen. Gr. Ramsay in Nepal. It has 

 also been taken at Panghur, near Neemuck, in September and November. Major 

 Yerbury obtained it at " Campbellpore above Rawul Pindi, 1200 feet, in May, 

 June and July, taking ten or twelve specimens in all." (Ann. N. H., 1888, 133). 

 Mr. De Niceville took two specimens at Nurpur in the Punjab, in May. Ool. A. M. 

 Lang obtained two specimens at Lucknow, and according to Col. C. Swinhoe, it is 

 scarce in Karachi, " one being taken in January, 1879, others in May and July, and 

 eleven in November and December, 1882." Also taken at Deesa, at Neemuck in 

 November, and Mhow in June. De Niceville (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, p. 40) writes : — 

 "A single individual of L. Alcippoides. has been taken in a garden at Ballygunj, 

 near Calcutta, in March. I have received specimens of this erratic species from 

 Fyzabad in Oudh, from Bholahat in the Malda district, and from Khuida in 

 Orissa." 



We have no record of its capture Southward, but one of the polymorphic forms 

 of the female of HypoUmnas Misippus, modified in imitation of L. Alcippoides, has 

 been taken on the Nilgiris by Mr. G. F. Hampson, indicating that it does occur or 

 formerly did exist there. 



A specimen is also recorded (Butt. Ind. i. 52) from Rangoon. 



LIMN AS KLTIGII (Plate 9, fig. 1, la, i ? ). 



Euploea Dovippus, var. Klug, Symbolicse Phys. pi. 4S, fig. 5 (1820), $ . 



Banais Dorippus (part), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 52 (1882). 



Limnas Dorippus (part), Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 238. 



