DANAIS. 



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Fig. 4. — Venation of wings. 

 Danais vulgaris. 



spot beyond it in apex, a slender costal streak, two large discal 

 spots inwardly pointed, outwardly truncate, three elongate spots 

 beyond apex of cell and four or five elongate preapical spots 



beyond them, finally a subterminal 

 and a terminal series of spots 

 decreasing in size towards apex 

 of wing. Hind wing : elongate 

 streaks in interspaces 1 a and 1 b, 

 two in interspace 1, two in cell 

 with a short slender streak 

 obliquely between their apices, 

 shorter streaks radiating out- 

 wards in interspaces 2-6, a sub- 

 terminal series of small spots and 

 a terminal row of dots beyond. 

 Underside similar, the markings 

 better defined. Antennae black, 

 palpi black above, bluish white 

 below ; head and thorax black, 

 spotted with bluish white ; ab- 

 domen brown above, sullied white 

 below. Male without any special sex-marks on the wings. 

 Exp. 6 2 84-87 mm. (3-3-3-45"). 



Hob. Burma, Tenasserim, extending to Malacca, Borneo, 

 Sumatra, and Java. The type in the collection of the British 

 Museum is labelled Nepal, but the locality is almost certainly 

 wrong. 



Race exprompta, Butler. — ^ 2 . Closely resembles D. vulgaris, 

 Butler, but has all the markings much broader, the apical spot in 

 cell of fore wing outwardly less emarginate ; on the hind wing- 

 interspaces 1 a and 1 b are entirely filled with the white streak, 

 while the short slender streak lying between the apices of the 

 streaks in the cell coalesces with the lower one. 



Exp. 6 2 76-84 mm. (3-3-8"). 



Hob. Ceylon. One specimen in the collection of the British 

 Museum is labelled Padang, Sumatra. 



Race nicobarica, W.-M. & de N. — tf 2 • I^ke- the preceding 

 race, but the subhyaline markings still broader and somewhat 

 blurred. Upperside : — fore wing : the whole basal two-thirds of 

 interspace 1 bluish white, enclosing a fine longitudinal black line ; 

 streak in discoidal cell very broad, occasionally produced to the 

 apical spot in the cell. Hind wing : the black in interspace 1 

 reduced to a mere streak ; cell entirely bluish white, traversed 

 longitudinally by a faint black forked line. In the solitary 

 specimen of the S in the collection of the British Museum this 

 line is entirely absent. 



Exp. <S 2 80-84 mm. (3-12-3-3"). 



Hab. Apparently confined to the Nicobars. 



