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succeeded in securing four, three of which hatched and produced spiny-looking black 

 larvEe. They fed on Porhdaca quadritida, a common weed, in the Central Provinces, 

 fond of garden paths. One of the larvae received an injury, and just as it should 

 have emerged, the colours and markings — which were of a female of the common 

 type — were visible, it succumbed. The other two came out all right and proved to 

 be also females ; but one was of the common D. Chrysippus type, while the other 

 resembled the D. Dovippus type, and had the white macular band faintly visible ; 

 examples of a most interesting case in which two different types were produced from 

 one parent. The eggs were laid on October IGth and were hatched in three or four 

 days. The larvre turned to pupte on November 7th and 8th, and emerged on 

 November 19th and 20th " ( Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1890, 282). 



Hermaphrodite. — A hermaphrodite, the right wings of which are male, and the 

 left wings female {Dlocippus form), taken in Kanara, S. India, by the late Mr. S. N. 

 "Ward, is in the British Museum. 



DiSTEiBDTiON, Habits, ETC. — " This butterfly appears to be almost as universally 

 met with in India as is Danais Chrysipjms, which is the model of the first form of its 

 female. This form of the female {Diocippus) is the most widely distributed, probably 

 occurring everywhere with the male. I am aware of its occurrence in S. Africa, Aden, 

 Karachi, Simla, Oudh, Malda, Calcutta, Bombay, North Kanara, the Nilgiris, 

 Bangalore, Trichinopoly, Travaucore, Ceylon, Katchall in the Nicobars, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and Batavia. At Aden, and Ootacamund, Nilgiris, and probably else- 

 where in India, a variety of this form of female occurs with the disc of the hindwiug 

 on the upperside white ; it mimics the variety of Danais Chrysippus named Alcippus 

 [Alcippoides], which also has white on the hindwing. A second form of female 

 (Inaria) — differing from the ordinary female in the absence of the black ground- 

 colour at the apex of the forewing, and of the oblique white band, these parts being 

 of the same ferruginous colour as the other parts of the wing — occurs less commonly 

 than the other, examples of it have been taken in S. Africa, at Aden, Karachi, 

 Bombay, Rajputana, Oudh, Malda, Calcutta, Bhadrachallum, Madras, Bangalore, 

 Ceylon, and Java. Its model is an unnamed form of Danais Dorippus [Klugii], in 

 which the hindwing is entii'ely red " (L. de Niceville, Butt. India, ii. 127). In 

 North-Western India, Col. J, W. Yerbury took it at " Campbellpore, in November 

 and December. Rare, only four taken in all, three males and one female. Flew to 

 the lights at night during Mess " (P. Z. S. 1886, 359). Capt. H. B. Hellard obtained 

 it at Allahabad (MS. Notes). Mr. W. Doherty obtained it at Almora, 6000 feet, and 

 Lower Gori, 2500 feet, Kumaon (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 123). The Rev. J. H. 

 Hocking records it from Kangra (P. Z. S. 18S2, 241). Capt. A. M. Lang found it 

 " tolerably abundant in Oudh and at Umballah in the rainy season (autunm), and 

 well into the winter. Larva reared on Portalaca oleracea" (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1864, 



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