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discocellular bent below the lower radial, producing a short discoidal spur within the 

 cell from the angle, lower discocellular slender at its upper end. Hindwing some- 

 what elongated, exterior margin very convex, abdominal margin short ; costal vein 

 arched from the base and extending along edge of the costa ; cell very long and 

 narrow. Male with two spatular-shaped patches of scent-scales, one, the largest, 

 situated on the lower median veinlet, the other, about one-fourth its size, on tlie 

 submedian vein, both near the end, and from which, in some specimens on the 

 underside, project innumerable short white filaments between the scales, each patch 

 showing on the underside a slender swelling of the vein at that part. Anteimce with 

 lengthened slender tip ; apical joint of palpi short, pilose. 



Laeva with two pairs of fleshy filaments. 



Tj/jje. — P. Aglea. 



Geographical Disteibution of the Species of Paeantica within Indian Aeea. — 

 Their geographical range seems to be widely separated. No species of this genus 

 occurs (has certainly not been recorded) north of the Bombay Presidency — where P. 

 aglea occurs — till P. melanoides is met with in the N.-"W. sub. Himalayas on the 

 "West. Of the East Coast fauna our knowledge is very limited at present, but as yet 

 P. melanoides has not been recorded from any place south of Assam in India 

 jjroper, while P. aglea is not known to extend up the East Coast further north than 

 Madras (excepting in the doubtful instance noted by Mr. Eothney (Ent. M. Mag. 

 1882, 33) as having taken it at Barrackpore, near Calcutta), aud P. melanoleuca is 

 confined to the Andamans ; whilst P. agleoides is restricted to the Nicobars and 

 Lower Burma. The only other described species of this group occurs outside our 

 area, namely, P. Eryx, of which the known and recorded habitats are Borneo, and the 

 island of Nias off W. Coast of Sumatra. 



PAEANTICA MELANOIDES (Plate 12, fig. 3, 3a, .^^ ?). 



Parantica Melanoides, Moore, Proc. Zool. See. Lond. 1883, p. 247 ; id. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xxi. 



p. 30 (1886). 

 Danais (Parantica) Melanoides, Elwes and D'Mceville, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 1886, p. 414. 

 Danais (Parantica) Aglea, Marshall and De Niceville, Butt, of India, &c.j I. p. 38, pi. 6, fig. 7, ^ ? 



(1882). 

 Danais Aglaia, Doherty, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, p. 113. 



Imago. — Compared with S. Indian specimens of P. Aglea, this is distinguishable 

 Ijy its somewhat larger wings, especially of the males, the conspicuously broader and 

 more clearly defined subhyaline bluish-white markings. On the forewing, the dis- 

 coidal streak is broader and almost entire, being but shghtly cleft at the end ; the 

 interspace below the cell is traversed by a very slender black line, which does not 

 divide the end. On the hindwing, the basal and discal interspaces are also much 



