1881.] Diurnal Lopidoptcra inhabiting the Nicolar Islands. 225 



and with specimens from Rangoon {J. W.-M.); and Felder states that his 

 specimens from the Great Nicobar agree with the typical ones from Malacca 

 in the Malay peninsula. 



The specimens obtained by Mr. Meldola on Kamorta Island doubtless 

 belong to this species and not to D. grammica (Boisduval), which is 

 apparently restricted to South India and Ceylon (D. ceylanica) : it is, 

 to say the least, improbable that two such closely allied varieties should 

 inhabit the same limited area (Kamorta, Nankowri, Great Nicobar, and 

 Kar Nicobar Islands). Nankowri, Kamorta, and Trinkut Islands (Colonel 

 Cadell). 



3. Danais similis, var. nicobarica, nov. 



TTpperside. $ . Underside. 



$ . ? . Nearest to D. exprompta, Butler, from Ceylon, from the figure* 

 of which species (probably that of a female, though the sex is not stated) 

 it differs, in the anterior wing, in having the streak in the base of the 

 interno-median area broader, occupying all but the entire breadth of the 

 space, shorter, and marked along the middle by a linear streak (instead of 

 being divided into two long and narrow streaks connected at the base only) ; 

 and, in the posterior wing, in having the cell entirely subdiaphanous 

 greenish or bluish white except for two excessively fine and faint longi- 

 tudinal and apically-divergent dusky lines much as in D % juventa (instead 

 of being divided by two very broad and black ones into two streaks, the 

 posterior of which is strongly recurved at its free end), the discal series 

 of bluish streaks immediately beyond the cell much narrower and shorter, 

 and the ground-colour around them consequently of greater extent and 

 giving to this portion of the wing a much darker appearance, again much 

 as in D. juventa. 



The male differs from the female in the bluish markings of both wings 

 being of a much deeper shade and, with the exceptions to be stated, larger ; 

 * Moore, l Lep. Ceylon,' pi. 2, fig. 2, ? . 



