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7. Danais (Tirumala) septentrionis, Butler. 



Hagen. Quite common in the plains and lower slopes of the hills. 



8. * Danais (Tirumala) limniace, Cramer. 



Hagen. As this species occurs in Burma and the Nicobar Isles, it 

 is possible that it may also be found in Sumatra. However, as Dr. 

 Hagen records in his first paj>er D. limniace and no D. septentrionis;, 

 and in his second paper D. septentrionis and no D. limniace, his first 

 identification was probably incori'ect. 



I wish to take this opportunity to record the occurrence of a but- 

 terfly in Malayana which has been well-named in English " The Wan- 

 derer," but about whose specific name there has of late years been 

 much contention and confusion. Formerly it was known as Danais 

 arehippus, Pabricius (1793), then as Danais (Anosia) p)lexippns, Linnaeus 

 (1758 ; recently, however, Mi-. W. F. Kirby in "Allen's Naturalist's 

 Library. Lepidoptera," vol. i, pp. 12 and 19 (1894), has pointed out that 

 the Papilio plexippus of Linnaeus, and the Papilto arehippus of Cramer 

 [sic, ? Fabricius] cannot apply to fchis species, and that it should be known 

 &B Danais (Anoeia) menippe, 1 fiibner, described in 1816. But an older 

 name than this last is Papilio erippns, Cramer (1775), which should ap- 

 parently be applied to it, unless Danais erippus, described from Brazil, 

 i insidered to be a distinct species from D. menippe, which, however, 

 Mr. Scudder is not prepared to admit it to be, in which case D. erippus 

 mil-! be applied to " The Wanderer." It is certain, however, that 

 D. vi i t be t\ pioal Form, being in fact a local race of D. menippe y 



so that our species must, as Kirby says, be known as D. menippe r 

 Hiibiier. In my opinion the most accurate nomenclature for the butter- 

 fly would be Danais (Anosia ) erippus menippe, llubner. At an}' rate the 

 species here treated has been well figured by Cramer in " Papillons 

 Exotiques" on plate ccvi, figs. E, F (1779), from a female example a» 

 Papilio plexipjins. Mr. W. F. Kirby has already recorded it from Java, 

 1 now, lor the first time I believe, record it from North Borneo, the late 

 Mr. W. Davison, who was for some years and till his death the Curator of 

 the Raffles Museum. Singapore, having sent me to see a male specimen 

 from that island. The Rev. W. J. Holland, Ph. D., in the Ann. Report Eut. 

 Soc. Ontario for 1893. notes that he has received single specimens of 

 Danais ph cippus, Liniueus, from Borneo and Java, also its occurrence in 

 the Azores. In Pari ii of a new edition of Morris' "A History of British 

 Buttei Hies,"' p. 7 - ( l^i.>o), it is stated (though the authority is not given) 

 to have been found in the Andaman Islands. Furthermore, the late 

 Mi 1 . 111. F. T. Atkinson in 1889 presented a female specimen of this 



