130 mPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



sometimes tliere are tliree or four slender upper discal spots indicated bj the 

 presence of a few pale blue scales, in others all these spots are obsolescent ; sub- 

 marginal spots more or less indistinct, or obsolete, minute, white, the series never 

 complete, and when present, the two lower and the two between the discoidal vein- 

 lets are more or less prominent, and two upper enlarged pale spots are incipiently- 

 indicated before the apex ; one or two, sometimes three lower, and one or two upper 

 marginal minute spots are present. Sexual mark between the lower median and 

 submedian vein elongated, clothed with widely-separated rather short bidentate and 

 tridentate-tipt scales. Hindwing with a large pale ochreous upjper discoidal patch 

 and a broad cinereous anterior margin ; a submarginal and a marginal row of 

 whitish spots, the former row more or less oval towards the anal angle and slightly 

 varying in length in different specimens, sometimes also both rows are composed of 

 smaller and less defined spots or are entirely obsolescent. Underside paler olivescent- 

 brown. Forewing with the small pale blue costal, cell, discal, lower submarginal 

 and marginal white spots, as in upperside, the lower discal spot being much enlarged 

 and violet- white; posterior margin broadly cinereous with a broad ochreous upper 

 medial patch. Eindiuing with both rows of whitish spots as in the upperside, with 

 a small violet-white cell spot, and five or six small slender discal spots. Some white 

 spots at base of wing. Female. Upperside as in male, except in the forewing 

 having the posterior margin straight, and in the absence of the sexual mark. Fore- 

 wing with small costal, cell, discal, and marginal spots present or obsolescent, as in 

 that sex. Hindiving with similar marginal rows of spots. Underside as in male. 

 Forewing with the cell spot sometimes lunate, and an elongated narrow streak above 

 the pale posterior margin. 



Expanse, cJ 3Jto 4J, ? 4J inches. 



Habitat. — Lower Burma, Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula. 



DiSTKiBUTiON. — Has been taken at Rangoon in September. " Oapt. C. H. E. 

 Adamson took it near Moulmein in June, at Moulmein in the autumn, and at the 

 Mayla Chouog in September. It has been taken at Bassein in October. Capt. C. 

 T.Bingham obtained numerous specimens in the Thoungyeen forests, Tenasserim, in 

 December" (Butt. Ind. 62). "Mr. 0. Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 823) found it at 

 Hatseiga, and at the Houngduran source in Upper Tenasserim during the cold 

 weather." Dr. J. Anderson took it somewtiat commonly in the Mergui Archipelago 

 in the cold weather from November to March. 



In the Malay Peninsula, Mr. Distant (Rhop. Malay. 31) records it fiom 

 Malacca and Penang. 



Habits, &c. — According to Major 0. H. B. Adamson (Notes on the Danainas 

 of Burma, 1889, p. 7) " numerous specimens taken in June in Salween Park, Moul- 

 mein, were flying about after a heavy rain in the bright sunshine. It is not at all a 



