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capturing the " male in coitu with, typical L. Chrysippus on February 26th, and a male 

 in coitu with typical L. Dorippus on February 29th." 



On the Somali coast, Major Yerbury also obtained it in April, and Mr. Thrupp 

 took specimens inland, south of Berbera (P. Z. S., 1885, 758). 



TopOMORPHio Allies of L. Cheysippps. — A darker-coloured topomorphic race {L. 

 bataviana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238), inhabits the Island of Java ; and a peculiarly 

 coloured race has been described by Dr. Heylaerts as L. Vigelii (Gomp. Eendus, See. 

 Ent. Belg. March, 1884) from the Island of Pulo Bras, off Achen, North Sumatra, as 

 being of a " very soft, beautiful lilac colour, which becomes darker towards the apex 

 of the fore wing." 



A similar dark-coloured race {L. cratipp)ns, Felder, Sitz. Akad. Wiss. 1860, p. 449), 

 occurs in Amboina, Ceram, and Aru ; another (i. Bowringii, Moore, I.e. 239), is not 

 uncommon in Hong Kong, though doubtfully of racial value, as normal specimens of i. 

 chrysippus also occur in the Islands of Hainan, Formosa, Japan and the Philippines. 



A small but very distinct race also inhabits Australia, viz. L. petilia, Stoll, 

 figured in Cramer's Pap. Bxot. Suppl. pi. 28, f. 3. In L. alcippus (Cramer, Pap. Bxot. 

 ii, pi. 127, f. E, f), which is found here and there at wide intervals over a great 

 part of Africa, we have the race representing the Indian L. alcippoides, and in L. 

 dorippus (Klug, Sym. Phys. pi. 48, figs. 1 to 4), occurring at Aden and on the 

 Somali coast, that of L. Elugii. 



Butterflies which mimic species of Limnas. — The Indian species of Limnas are 

 the subjects of unconscious mimicry by the polymorphic forms of the female of 

 Hypolimnas misippus, as follows : — 



L. chrysippus. — This species is mimicked by the normal female of H. misippus, 

 and affords one of the best and most striking examples of protective resemblance. 

 It is commonly found with it in its different Indian habitats, — Ceylon, Nicobars, and 

 Malay Peninsula, as well as at Aden and South Africa. 



L. alcippoides is mimicked by a second form of the female of H. misippus, which 

 differs from its ordinary female in having the discal area of the upperside of the hind- 

 wings white. This form is rarely met with, but has been taken by Mr. Hampson on 

 the Nilgiris, and probably occurs elsewhere in India. 



L. Klugii is mimicked by a third form of female of H. misippus, which is simi- 

 larly coloured and without the oblique subapical white markings, as in L. Klugii. It 

 occurs less commonly than the normal form of female, and is also recorded from 

 Ceylon and Aden. 



Genus SALATURA. 



Salatura, Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 5 (1880) ; id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud. 1883, p. 239. 



Euplvea (jpart), Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15 (1816). 



Danais {part), Godart, Encyel. Me'th. ix. pp. 10 et 172 (1819). Doubleday and Hewitson, Diurnal 

 Lep. p. 89 (1847). Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, p. 43. 



