20 J. Wood-Mason & L. de Niceville — Second List of Butterflies, Sfc. 



third of the number that could in one season be obtained in the Calcutta 

 district, which has been under cultivation for ages But small as the net 

 results of our work are, they already afford a tolerably clear indication that 

 the Nicobar fauna, so far as the Khopalocerous portion of it is concerned, 

 possesses a much stronger Malayan element in its composition than that 

 of the Andamans, whence we have received twice the number of distinct 

 species. It would be premature to attempt a detailed analysis, but we 

 cannot allow this opportunity to pass by without pointing out that, of 

 the five recorded species of Euploea, three are unquestionably Malayan 

 forms, and that neither of the five is represented either in peninsular and 

 northern India or at the Andamans ; that the only JElymnias is a local 

 form of a Javan species with a representative in Burneo ; that the Javan 

 Tachyris panda appears never to have been before recorded from any place 

 so far to the westward as Great Nicobar ; that Hypolyccena thecloides has 

 hitherto only been reported from the Malay Peninsula and Singapore ; 

 that in SitJion hamorta and >S^. areca wq have two striking and congeneric 

 lycsenids whose affinities are decidedly Malayan, instead of one, as in the 

 Andamans ; and that the Nicobar form of jRadena similis more nearly 

 resembles the Javan than it does any other. 



In conclusion, we have to state that in the foregoing list Hesperia 

 agna = P. mathias of our former paper [see Moore, Lep. Geylon, where the 

 differences between these too closely allied forms are for the first time 

 pointed out), that Euploea castelnaui = E plioehus (Mr. W. L. Distant 

 having made out to his own satisfaction and to ours that Felder's name has 

 priority over Butler's), and ihsit Danais yenutia, Cramer = D. plexippus 

 (Messrs. Salvin and Godman and others having recently shown that Linne's 

 D. plexi'ppus is not the Oriental species which had so long gone by that 

 name, but an American species, and that the former ought to be known 

 by the name bestowed upon it by Cramer) ; and we ought after having 

 so pointedly drawn attention to their apparent absence, also to draw atten- 

 tion to fact of the presence, at the Nicobars of Hypolimnas misippus ? 

 and of Papilio polytes ? second form, which latter, however, would appear 

 to be of exceedingly rare occurrence. 



An asterisk (*) is prefixed to the names of those recorded species of 

 which we have not as yet received specimens. 



Explanation of Plate III. 

 Fig. 1. Euploea simulatrix, W.-M. & de N., ^. 



Fig. 2. ? . 



Fig. 3. Elymnias mimus, W.-M. & de N., $ . 



Fig. 4. ? . 



Fig. 5. Cirrhochroa nicobarica, W.-M. & de N., <J . 



