224 J. Wood-Mason cmd Lionel de Niceville — List of [No. 3, 



XIV. — List of Diurnal Lepidoptera inhabiting the Nicobar Islands. — By 

 J. Wood-Mason, Deputy Superintendent, Indian Museum, Calcutta, 

 and Lionel de Nice'ville. 



[Received January 1st ; — Read March 2nd, 1881.] 



(With a Woodcut.) 



In Mr. F. Moore's paper on ' The Lepidopterous Fauna of the Anda- 

 man and Nicobar Islands'* only 33 species of Rhopalocera are recorded fro in 

 all the numerous islands of the latter group. The Museum has, during the 

 past and present years, received from Mr. F. A. de Roepstorff several small 

 collections of Nicobar butterflies numbering some 42 distinct species, of 

 which 25 have not been previously recorded ; and, since this paper was 

 read, we have been indebted to the kindness and courtesy of Lieut. -Colonel 

 T. Cadell, V. C, Chief Commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, 

 for a collection consisting of very numerous individuals of about 23 species, 

 eight of which we had not before obtained and five of which prove to be new 

 to the Islands ; so that in all there have passed through our hands, 47 species 

 of which 30 are now for the first time recorded ; this number, of which 4 

 are new to science and 3 are described as varieties of known forms, added 

 to the 34 previously recorded brings up the total of species known from 

 these islands to 64. 



In the absence of Danais chrysippus one cannot help speculating as 

 to what Nicobar females of Hypolimnas misippus may be like : are they 

 dark-coloured like the males or do they mimic some other red Danais ? 



LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA. 



Family NYMPHALIDiE. 



Subfamily DanaiN-E. 



1. Danais limniace. 



Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot., 1775, vol. i, pi. 59, figs. D, E. 

 Nankowri Island (Moore) . One male and two females from Kamorta 

 (Colonel Cadell). 



2. Danais agleoides. 



£). agleoides, Felder, Wien. Entom. Monatschr., 1860, vol. iv, p. 398, <J ; Verh. 

 zool.-bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 1862, vol. xii, p. 486 ; non Boisd. 

 D. grammica, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 581. 



Four males and six females from Nankowri, one male from Great 

 Nicobar (Sambelong), and two males and one female from Kar Nicobar, 

 all absolutely identical in structure, markings, and colour with one another 

 * Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, p. 580. 



