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Limnaa Dorippu^, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 504 ; id. 1885, p. 126. 



Limnas sp. (unnamed Indo-African typo), Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1884, p. 481. 



Ldmnas Klugii, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1885, p. 758; id. 1886, p. .356. 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside ferruginous. Forewing with tlie mediallv- 

 dentate anterior, and exterior margin, and liindwing with the exterior maro-in, cell 

 spots, and pouch mark in the male, black ; the costa generally having the three 

 normal small white medial and apical spots, and the more or less obsolescent mar- 

 ginal white spots, and sometimes one or two white submarginal spots between the 

 upper and middle median veinlets. Underside paler, the black marginal band with more 

 prominent and complete series of white spots ; on the forewing are two small white 

 spots outside the black dentation at end of the cell, and, generally, there are two small 

 white subapical spots disposed obliquely between the upper costal spot and the sub- 

 marginal spot ; on the hindwing, the marginal band, cell spots, and pouch mark, are 

 slightly white bordered, the veins also being sometimes white. Thorax, head and 

 palpi black, spotted with white ; thorax above white striped ; legs black, femora 

 beneath white; abdomen ferruginous, with blackish-bordered longitudinal white 

 stripes and white segmental bands beneath. 



Expanse, 2^ to 3i inches. 



Habitat. — Sind, Kutch, Bombay. 



Differs from L. Ghrysifpus in its paler tint of colour, by the absence, on the 

 forewing, of the black apical area, and the oblique subapical white macular-band, as 

 well as the smaller spots below it; the submarginal row of spots is generally 

 absent, and if present consists of the two between the upper and middle median 

 veinlets ; the marginal series, consisting of the three at the apex and a few between 

 the median veinlets. Hindwing as in L. Ghrysiiypus, except that the marginal white 

 spots are more or less obsolete. 



Geographical Distribution. — At Karachi a specimen was occasionally taken by 

 Col. C. Swinhoe (P. Z. S., 1884, 504) " in January, June, July, August, September, 

 November, and December. It was never common. I have no record of its occur- 

 rence in the interior of Sind." Specimens were also obtained by the late Mr. G. H. 

 Wilkinson in Kutch. It is also I'ecorded by Major Yerbury as having been taken in 

 the extreme North-west of India, who obtained it at Campbellpore in May and 

 June (P. Z. S., 1886, 356) ; and Col. Swinhoe records (P. Z. S., 1884, 504) having 

 taken " two specimens in Bombay in August, others at Poona in October and Decem- 

 ber, and one at Khandalla in October." Of its existence further South there would 

 appear to be little doubt, from the fact of the occuiTence of one of the polymorphic 

 forms of the female of Hijpolimnas misippus, modified in imitation of L. Khujii, which 

 has not uncommonly been taken on the Nilgiris by Mr. G. F. Hampson. 



At Aden, Major Yerbury (Butler, P. Z. S., 1884, p. 481) obtained specimens, 



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