DANAIDiE. 
Ins, 135 
The paper concludes with a statement of some of the principal problems 
connected with mimicry among butterflies, as applicable to the case of 
Thyridia B,\id Ituna ; but these scarcely admit of abridgment, especially as 
the author does not seem to have reached a perfectly definite conclusion. 
In the discussion on this paper (P. E. Soc. 1879, pp. xxviii. & xxix.), 
J. J. Weir mentions that he has never seen distasteful larvss eaten by 
birds, and concludes that their dislike to them is hereditary, and due to 
unconscious cerebration. H. W. Bates disputes the subdivision of the 
Danaidoi, contending that Miiller’s observations merely prove that Ituna 
and Lycorea are the connecting links between Danais and Ithomia ; and 
he then briefly sums up what is known respecting mimicry in Ileliconiidw. 
Danais chrysijipus : transformations, &c., noticed ; M. Korb, Ent. 
Nachr. v. pp. 81 & 82. D. hamata, Macleay : G. Semper regards this 
species as distinct from limniace, Cram. The following are probably 
local forms : — melissa, Cram., microsticta and septentrionis, Butl., orien- 
talis, Semp. (var. n. from the Philippines), leucoptera, Butl., hamata^ 
Mad., obscurata and moderata, Butl., neptunia, Feld., and melittula, Herr.- 
Schaff. He figures hamata, melUtula, neptunia var., orientalis^ Iwiniace^ 
and septentrionis \ J. Mus. Godelfr. xiv. pp. 139 & 140, pi. viii. figs. 1-7. 
D. archippus : large assemblage on a hickory tree ; W. H. Edwards, 
Cauad. Ent. xi. p. 239. (Sub phxippus) : testaceous var. from Antigua ; 
W. L. Distant, P. E. Soc. 1879, p. lii. (Sub herenice) : occurrence in New 
Zealand ; F. W. Sturm, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xi. p. 305. D. plexippus, cleothera, 
and herenice discussed by Godman & Salvin, Biol. Ceiitr. Am. Rhop. 
pp. 1-4 ; to the last species they refer D. strigosa and thersippus^ Bates, 
as varieties. 
Euplcca erimas, Godman & Salvin, figured by them ; P. Z. S. 1879, 
pi. XV. fig. 1. 
The known Central American species and genera of Danaince, from 
liunn to Bymenitis^ are redescribed and fully discussed by Godman & 
Salvin (Biol. Centr. Am. Rhop.). The following corrections of synonymy 
occur, or known species are figured : — Ttuna lamirus, Latr. (= Ituna 
albescens^ Dist.) ; Olyras theon, Bates, pi. i. fig. 2, insignis, Salv., pi. i. 
fig. 1 ; Eutresis theope (= E. hiyperia, Staud., nee Doubl.), pi. i. fig. 3 ; 
Tithorea duenna^ Bates, pi. ii. fig. 7, pintliias (= tarricina, Bates, nec 
Hew., = duenna, Butl. & Druce, nec Bates), pi. ii. fig. 8, T. irene, Dru. 
(= T. umbratilis, Bates), pi. ii. fig. 10 ; Melincea scylax, Salv. (=: M. 
ribbii, Weym.), pi. ii. fig. 12, M. imitata, Bates (= tachypetis, Feld., = 
lilis, Butl. & Druce), pi. ii. fig. 11 ; Scada xanthina, Bates, pi. iii. fig. 2 ; 
Thyridia melantho, Bates, pi. i. fig. 4 ; Mechanitis lycidice, Bates (= 
doryssa, Boisd., = isthmia, Butl. & Di’uce, = ovata, Dist.), pi. i. figs. 7 
& 8, 31. isthmia, Bates {isthinicus, pi. i. figs. 11 & 12), M. doryssus, Bates 
(= utenaia, Beak.), pi. i. figs. 9 & 10, pi iv. fig. 2, M. labotas, Dist. (= 
doryssus, Butl. & Druce, p.^ pi. iv. fig. 1, and 31. macrinus, Hew., pi. i. 
figs. 5 & 6 ; Ceratinia megalopolis, Feld. {Ith. megalopolis, pi. iii. fig. 8), 
C.cleis, Bates {Ith. cleis, pi. iii. fig. 5, = mylassa, Druce), leucania, Bates 
(= Ith. leucania, pi. iii. fig. 9), and C. callispila. Bates (= Ith. callispila, 
pi. iii. figs. 6 & 7) ; Napeogenes hemimelcena, G. & S., pi. iii. fig. 3, N. 
