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arclied at tlie base of the costa, the exterior border more even throughout, and 

 oblique beloTV the apes, and convexly angular beyond the middle, thus giving this 

 wing a decided quadrate form ; the abdominal margin being also longer. Male ivith 

 hvo similarly disijosed spatular-sliaped im'pressed imtches of scent-scales, each with 

 slight corresponding thickening of the vein. Female with rounded exterior 

 margins. 



Type. — B. philomela. 



BAHORA CROCEA (Plate 12, fig. 1, la, ^J $ ). 



Danais Croeea, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1866, p. 57, pi. 4, fig. 5, (J ; id. Trans. Linn. Soc. 



Zool. (1877), p. 536. 

 Danais (Parantica) Croeea, Marshall and D'NiceviUe, Butt, of India, &c. I. p. 37, pi. 5, fig. 6, ^ 



(1882). 

 Sahara Croeea, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 245; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond. Zool. xxi. 



p. 30 (1886). 

 Danais (Bahora) Croeea, Elwes and D'Niceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng, 1886, p. 415. 

 Danais Astasia, var. Croeea, Distant, Ehopalooera Malayana, p. 13, pi. 1, fig. 7, ^ (1882). 



Imago. — Male and female. Upperside dark brown-black. Male : Foreioing 

 with a whitish-hyaline broad trifid cell streak, three narrow costal spots towards the 

 apex, two lengthened narrow subapical streaks, below which are three outer discal 

 somewhat broad quadrate spots, two larger inner discal spots which sometimes 

 slightly touch the outer spots, a broad streak below the cell, a submarginal row of 

 eight small spots and sometimes a short lower streak at the posterior angle, a 

 marginal row of more or less defined smaller spots ; the cell- streak in the male is 

 sometimes sullied with dark scales, and the streak below the cell is suffused with 

 yellow. Hindiving with the cell, the costal, short inner discal, and longer marginal 

 interspaces yellow, the outer discal spots, the submarginal, and marginal series of 

 spots more or less defined. Male toith two spatular- shaped patches of scent-scale,'^, a 

 large patch on the lower median and a small one on the submedian. Female with 

 all the markings, including the marginal rows of spots on both wings more prominent, 

 and the discal spots on the forewiug well separated Body black, head and thorax 

 white spotted, a dorsal white streak on thorax, front of palpi and femora beneath 

 white, abdomen above brown, whitish beneath. 



Expanse i 2| to 3, 9 2 J to 3j inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma ; Tenasserim. 



In the British Museum Collection there is a male specimen of B. croeea labelled 

 " Assaan " and a female specimen labelled " Nepal." Both of these localities may 

 be and are doubtless erroneous, and also probably that of " Tranquebar " given by 

 Fabi'icius, as the habitat of the allied B. Aspasia, and also that of Jounpur, N.-W. 

 Provinces, given by F. J. Atkinson (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1867, p. 60) for a butterfly which 



