50 LEPIDOPTERA INBICA. 



DiSTEiBDTioN WITHIN Indian Aeea — This species does not appear to be common 

 anywhere. Mr. W. S. Atkinson notes its occurrence in the plains of Bengal. Mr. 

 De Niceville, who has carefully collected in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, notes 

 (Butt. Ind. i. 55), " On November 15th and December 18th, 1878, taking two speci- 

 mens in a garden on the outskirts of Calcutta," and (J. A. S. Beng. 1885, 40) says, 

 "It is a decidedly rare species here, I having seen only seven specimens in all, four 

 taken by myself in the two last months of three successive years, one taken by Mr. 

 W. Doherty, also in the cold weather, and one in March in a garden at Bally gunj, 

 all except the last being taken in the Sealdah District." Specimens of both sexes 

 taken at Mutla in September, 1887, are in Col. Swinhoe's collection, and Capt. 

 Hellard has it from the Sunderbunds. It is recorded in Mr. W. C. Taylor's list of 

 Orissa butterflies, as "not common at Khurda." In Lower Burma, Capt. E. H. B. 

 Adamson (J. A. S. Beng. November, 1882) records it from Akyab, who took speci- 

 mens " in July, in company with S. Genutia, L. clmjsijppus T. septentrionis and 8. 

 Gautama." It occurs not uncommonly at Rangoon from July to October; and also 

 at Moulmein. Dr. J. Anderson obtained it in the Mergui Archipelago in December 

 (J. Linn. Soc. Zool. 1886, 30). 



Distribution outside Indian Area. — Mr. Distant records it (Rhop. Malayana, 

 19) from Malacca and Province Wellesley, Malay Peninsula. There is a specimen in the 

 British Museum collection from Pinang, and I have a single specimen from Singapore. 



Habits of Imago. — Mr. De Niceville, in observing specimens in a garden near 

 Calcutta, says (Butt. Ind. i. 55), " It seems to have a lower, and, if possible, lazier 

 flight than S. Genutia, from which species, by reason of its white-striped lower wings, 

 it is easily distinguishable on the wing." 



SALUTURA NESIPPUS (Plate 11, fig. 2, 2a, b, ^ ?). 



Danais JVesippus, Felder, Verb. Zool. Bot. Gesch. xii. p. 486 (1862) ; id. Reise Novara, Lep. 11, 



p. 347 (1867) ; Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, p. 582. 

 Danais Hege.nppus, var, Neuppus, Wood-Mason and D'Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1882, 



p. 15. 

 Danais (Salatura) Nesippus, Marshall and D'Niceville, Butt, of India, &c., I. p. 55 (1882), 

 Salatura Nesippnis, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1883, p. 241. 



Imago. — Comparatively smaller than 8. Eegesippus. Upperside duller in colour 

 throughout, the black being of a fuliginous shade, especially on the hindwing, the 

 fulvous area darker, and the white markings much duller. On the foreiving the 

 subapical series of spots are narrower, and the two marginal series of small white 

 spots are generally complete at their upper end. On the hindivmg the white discal 

 interspaces are narrower and shorter. Male ruith a small suhovate scent-pouch 

 situated near the lower median between it and the submedian. Underside also 



