DANAIS. 



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and spots. Fore wing : two streaks in interspace 1, coalescent 



at base and generally at their 

 apices, a narrow streak, with two 

 faintly indicated streaks above it, 

 in cell ; five discal spots and above 

 them a long streak in interspace 5 ; 

 a shorter one in 6 ; some costal 

 spots and subterminal and terminal 

 series of spots, the former series 

 curved inwards opposite apex of 

 wing, the four lower spots con- 

 spicuously larger than the others ; 

 the latter series incomplete, the 

 spots small. Hind wing: inter- 

 spaces 1 a, 1 h, and 1 with narrow 

 streaks, double in the last ; the cell 

 with a much broader, outwardly 

 bluntly pointed streak, and beyond 

 radiating series of elongate spots 

 with a subterminal series of smaller spots and a terminal very 

 incomplete series of dots. Underside similar, ground-colour 

 browner, the spots more clearly defined. Antennae black ; head 

 and thorax black spotted with white ; abdomen brownish above, 

 dusky white below. 



Exp. 6 2 82-84 mm. (3-2-3'33"). 



Hab. Southern India ; the Nilgiris ; Malabar, and Travancore 

 hills. 



Fig. 7. — Danais nilgiriensis, $ . \. 

 this in the interspaces 



20. Danais fumata, Butler. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 53 ; Moore (Chittira), 



Lep. Ceyl. i, 1880, p. 9, pi. 4, 

 figs. 1, 1 a,S $; id. (Chittira), 

 Lep. Ind. i, 1890-92, p. 67, 

 pL16,-figs. 2,2a,2b,S2. 

 Danais taprobana, Felder, Novara 

 Reise, Lep. Rhop. 1867, p. 349, 

 pi. 42, fig. 4 ; M. Sfde N. Butt. 

 Ind. i, 1882, p. 44. 



Fig. 8. — Danais fumata, <S . 



S 2 • Upperside fuliginous 

 black with sullied white mark- 

 ings and spots as follows — fore 

 wing : an elongate, broad, in- 

 wardly attenuate, outwardly 

 truncate stripe in interspace 1 ; 

 a narrow stripe with indica- 

 tions of two other stripes above 

 it in discoidal cell ; an oblique 

 preapical series of three large 

 rectangular spots and two 

 short streaks and a subterminal series of seven or eight small 

 spots. Hind wing : a streak from base almost filling the discoidal 



