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mined for the most part by entomologists whose views as to the limits 

 of variation are at variance with our own, and, as we venture to think, 

 with those of most modern entomologists. And as, moreover, the de- 

 scriptions of most of these forms are not comparative, they cannot be 

 understood in many cases by those who have not seen the types of the 

 species described. Therefore we believe any identification of variable or 

 "wide-ranging Indian forms must be provisional, and that no fixed no- 

 menclature can be expected until the Indian Lepidoptera have been 

 worked out by a naturalist of great experience and philosophic mind, 

 and Avho will bring to bear on the subject the same industry, care, and 

 ability which have been shown by Dr. Staudinger in his Catalogue of 

 European Lepidoptera, and by Messrs. Salvin and Godman in their 

 model work " Biologia Centrali- Americana." 



Mr. Distant's " Rhopalocera Malayana " gives a fairly complete and 

 carefully worked out account of the butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, 

 to which the present collection bears considerable resemblance, but the 

 butterflies of Tenasserim seem, like the birds, to have a greater number 

 of species with Indian than with Malayan affinities. 



The only previous list of Tenasserim butterflies is that published by 

 Mr. F. Moore in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for 

 1878, p. 821, which contains 157 species, collected by Moti Ram under 

 Mr. Ossian Limborg on and around the Moulayet range of mountains. 

 Captain C. T. Bingham, however, has added very largely to our know- 

 ledge of this fauna, and Major C. H. E. Adamson's collection would no 

 doubt if added extend the number of known species to at least double as 

 many as we have here enumerated. 



A large majority of the species in this collection are represented by 

 one sex only, and by others by one or more imperfect specimens. 



We have enumerated the species represented in Mr. Moore's list, 

 but not found in this collection, and where necessary have placed them in 

 their more modern genera, and w^e have also retained the order (as far 

 as possible) of the sequence of the species given therein for the sake of 

 convenience of reference, but have not numbered them. All those in 

 both collections are marked with a star. 



Family NYMPHALID-^. 



Subfamily DANAiNiE. 



*1. Danais (Tirumala) septenteionis. 

 P. septentrionis, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag., vol. xi, p. 163 (1874). 

 Numerous specimens from Tavoy, Ponsekai, and the hills. 



*2. Danais (Farantica) melanoides. 

 rarantica melanoides, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 247, n. 1. 



