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lie there erroneously identified as B. Cleona — an allied species occurring only in 

 Celebes. No specimen of either B. crocea or B. aspasia has been authentically identi- 

 fied as having been captured in any part of the Indian Continent. 



In the Banksian Collection (now in the British Museum), containing the original 

 types of many of the Fabrician described species, there are two specimens, a male 

 and female, labelled " Asia," which Mr. Butler, in his " Catalogue of Diurnal Lepi- 

 doptera, described by Fabricius," p. 7, No. 17, has assigned to B. aspasia. These 

 two Fabrician specimens agree in every respect, and are identical with Bornean 

 specimens also in the Bi'itish Museum, and other Collections, which have been 

 examined. The Fabrician specimens of B. aspasia here referred to, are smaller in 

 size than those of the same sex of B. crocea, and have all the transparent markings 

 smaller in both sexes. 



DrsTEiBUTiON WITHIN INDIAN Area. — The Only authentic records of the capture of 

 this species within our limits is from Burma. Mr. De Niceville (Butt. Ind. i. 37) 

 records it from Kyouk Phyoo, Arakan. Messrs. Elwes and De Niceville (J. A. S. 

 Beng. 1887, 415) records two specimens taken at " Tavoy in March," and Dr. J. 

 Anderson (J. Linn. Soc. Z. 1886, 30) took two specimens at "Mergui in December, 

 and one on Elphinstone Island in March." 



DiSTBiBLiTiON OUTSIDE Indian Area. — Mr. W. L. Distant (Rhop. Malay. 13) gives 

 Province Wellesley and Malacca, and " Pinang in Aug. and September." It occurs 

 also at Singapore, Sumatra, and Nias. 



Indo-Malayan ALLIED Species OF Bahora. — i?. J.sj5a.sm (Fabr. Mant. Ins. 11,15. 

 Identified, as stated above), with specimens from Borneo. — B. philomela Zinken- 

 Sommer, Akad. Nat. Cur. 1831, 184, pi. 16, fig. 17. Habitat. Java. 



Botterely Mimicks of Species of Bahora. — B. crocea is mimicked, apparently, by 

 one of the forms of the female of Nepherouia hippia, Avhich is occasionally found in 

 certain parts of the Indian Continent, and in which the basal interspaces of the hind- 

 wings are prominently suffused With yellow, from which fact it is presumable that 

 B. crocea does or did exist there. B. philomela. — This species is also mimicked, in 

 Java, by a form of the female of Nepheronia, namely N. Valeria, the latter having 

 the basal interspaces on both wings suffused with yellow, as is the case in B. 

 philomela. 



Genus PARANTICA. 

 Parantica, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 7 (1880), id. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1883, p. 247. 

 Danais {Paralitica, Sect. B, part), Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, i. p. 35 (1882). 

 Danais (Ssct. A, part), Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 13 (1882). 



Imago. — Foreiuing long, narrow, hind margin lengthened ; first subcostal branch 

 emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell and touching the costal near its end, 

 second branch from immediately before end of the cell ; the cell long and narrow; upper 



