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NYMPHALID^. 



10. Danais melanea, Cramer (Papilio), Bap. Exot. i, 1775, pi. 30, 

 fig. D ; M.8f de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 43, pi. 5, fig. 5 tf $ ; 

 Moore (Caduga), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 60, pi. 14, figs. 2, 2 a, 



' ■ c? $ • Upperside : fore wing black, hind wing very dark 

 purplish brown, with faintly bluish-white subhyaline markings. 



Underside : fore wing black, 

 the apex broadly suffused with 

 bright chestnut-brown ; hind 

 wing bright chestnut-brown, 

 with a patch on the costa and 

 a portion of the disc and 

 termen very much darker in 

 most specimens. For the 

 rest exactly resembles D. tytia 

 in form and disposition of the 

 subhyaline markings, but these 

 are more clearly defined and 

 proportionately smaller, the 

 subterminal and terminal 

 spots on the hind wing 

 generally very distinct. An- 

 tennae black ; head and thorax 

 black, spotted with white ; 

 abdomen bright ochraceous. 

 Exp. 6 2 94-100 mm. (3-7-3-95"). 



Hab. The Eastern Himalayas ;' Assam ; Burma; Tenasserim, 

 extending to the Malayan subregion. 



Pig. 3. — Danais melanea, c? . 



11. Danais vulgaris, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. 1874, p. 164; M. Si- 

 de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 32, fig. tf; Moore (Kadena), Lep. 

 Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 27, pi. 5, figs. 1, 1 a, S 2 • 



Race exprompta. 

 Danais exprompta, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. 1874, p. 164 ; Moore 

 (Radena), Lep. Ceyl. i. 1880, p. 4, pi. 2, fig. 1 ; M. 8r de N. Butt. 

 Ind. i, 1882, p. 33 ; Moore (Radena), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 28, 

 pi. 5, figs. 8, 3 a, & $ . 



Race nicobarica. 

 Danais similis, Linn., var. nicobarica, W.-M. fy de N., J.A.S.B. 



1881, pt. ii, p. 225, fig. 



Danais nicobarica, M. $ de N. Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 34, fig. $ ; 



Moore (Radena), Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 28, pi. 5, figs. 2, 



2 a, 6 $ • 



Upperside black, the dorsal margin of hind wing broadly 



cinereous ; both wings with the following subhyaline bluish-white 



streaks and spots : — fore wing : a short streak along dorsal margin, 



two broad streaks united at base in interspace 1, the upper one 



curved, a broad streak in cell with an outwardly indented detached 



