178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Oriental genus Gonophora, from which it differs by the short 

 antennae (beetle about 5 - 7 mm. long, antennae about 1'5 mm.). 

 The sides of the thorax, seen from above, are distinctly concave 

 below the median angle, practically as in G. chalybeata, Baly. 

 For the present I think the fossil may stand as Gonophora 

 bremii. 



K^vi.H cte\ 



Danais chrysippus, ab. 



SOME CURIOUS ABERRATIONS OF DANAIS 

 CHRYSIPPUS, L. 



By Capt. Kenneth J. Haywakd, F.E.S. 



Whilst collecting at Reservoir (near Aswan, Egypt) on 

 January 15th, I took a very curious aberration of Danais 

 chrysippus, L., of which an illustration is given above. As will 

 be seen, the left hind wing is toothed at vein 5 in the form of a 

 tail 5 mm. long, below which it curves sharply inwards, resum- 

 ing the normal shape again at vein 3. The usual white 

 markings in the black marginal border are entirely absent in the 

 hind wings, and only occur as one or two isolated pin-points on 

 the fore wings. The tailed wing has not the usual slightly 

 scalloped edge. 



1. Danais chrysippus, L., ab. axantha, ab. nov. 



<$ $ . Antennae black. Head, thorax and abdomen black, marked 

 with white as in chrysippus. (In some specimens the abdomen, 

 above is dark brown, heavily dusted with black.) Fore wings and 



