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more or less suffused with white *. D. dorippus occurs only 

 sporadically within our limits. It has been taken at Campbellpur 

 in the Punjab (Terbury), at Karachi (Sivinhoe), near Poona 

 (Aiilcen), in the neighbourhood of Trincomalee, Ceylon (Terbury), 

 and recorded from the southern and eastern coasts of the same 

 island (Manders). 



9. Danais tytia, Gray (Euplcea), Lep. Ins. Nepal, 1833-46, p. 2, pi. 9, 

 fig. 2 <$ ; M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 42 ; Moore (Caduga), 

 Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 61, pi. 15, figs. 1, la-lc, <$ $ . 

 Danais sita, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv, 1844, p. 424, pi. 6 S ; 

 Mackinn. $ de N., Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soe. xi, 1897, p. 213, pi. U, 

 figs. 1 a & 1 d, larva & pupa. 



c? $ . "Wings elongate, almost as in Hestia. Upper side of fore 

 wing black or fuliginous black, with the following bluish- white 

 subhyaline markings. A streak from base in interspace 1 6, very 

 broad streaks filling the basal three-fourths of interspace 1, and 

 the whole of the cell, five very large quadrate discal spots, two 

 long preapical streaks, three shorter streaks above them, a sub- 

 terminal series of more or less rounded spots decreasing in size 

 anteriorly and curved inwards opposite apex, and an incomplete 

 subterminal series of smaller spots. Hind wing chestnut-red, 

 with subhyaline streaks and spots as follows : streaks from base, 

 not reaching the termen in interspaces 1 a and 1 b, two broad 

 streaks united to near their apex in interspace 1, a streak filling 

 the cell, and beyond it a discal series of large inwardly pointed 

 elongate spots and incomplete ill- defined subterminal and terminal 

 series of spots. Underside similar, the markings clearer and more 

 complete. Antennae black ; head and thorax black, spotted with 

 white ; abdomen from brown to bright ochraceous, beneath whitish. 

 Male secondary sex-mark in form 2. 



Exp. S 2 96-114 mm. (3-8-5-5"). 



Hob. The Himalayas, Kashmir to Sikhim ; Assam ; Burma 

 and Tenasserim, extending to the Malay Peninsula. 



Larva. " On emergence a dirty white colour with transverse 

 lines on each segment .... two somewhat long and thin tentacles 

 or processes on the third, and two shorter ones on the twelfth 



segment When full-fed the larva is about an inch and a 



half long, the ground-colour is of a pale yellowish green, with two 

 rows of dorsal and a row on each side of lateral yellow spots, the 

 head is black with grey spots on the face, the legs black. 



" Pupa pale emerald-green with golden-yellow spots. From 

 eggs laid in September the imago issued in the following April. 



Food-plant, Marsdenia roylei, Wright. Natural order 



Asclepiadeae." (MacMnnon.) 



* In the text of the ' Symbolas Physicge,' Klug described the tawny form of 

 this insect under the name "> Dorippus,'" adding " variat uterque sexus alls 

 posticis medio albis." On the plate, probably by an error, the dark-winged 

 form is labelled " Euploea dorippus, mas. var." 



