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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 paper D. limniace and no D. septentrionis , 
and in his second paper D. septentrionis and no D. limniace , his first 
identification was probably incorrect, 
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 
archippus, Fabricius (1793}, then as Danais (Anosia), plexippus, Linnaeus 
(1758) ; recently, however, Mr. 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 Papilio archippus of Cramer 
[sic, ? Fabricius] cannot apply to this species, and that it should be known 
as Danais (Anosia) menippe , Hiibner, described in 1816. But an older 
name than this last is Papilio erippus, Cramer (1775), which should ap¬ 
parently be applied to it, unless Danais erippus , described from Brazil, 
be considered 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 
must be applied to M The Wanderer.” It is certain, however, that 
D. erippus is not the typical form, being in fact a local race of D . menippe, 
so that our species must, as Kirby says, be known as D. menippe , 
Hiibner. In my opinion the most accurate nomenclature for the butter¬ 
fly would be Danais ( Anosia ) erippus menippe , Hiibner. At any rate the 
species here treated has been well figured by Cramer in “• Papillons 
Exotiques ” on plate ocvi, figs. E, F (1779), from a female example as 
Papilio plexippus.. Mr. W. F. Kirby has already recorded it from Java, 
X now, for 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 Ent. 
Soc. Ontario for 1893, notes that he has received single specimens of 
Danais plexippus , Linnaeus, from Borneo and Java, also its occurrence in 
the Azores. In Part ii of a new edition of Morris’ “A History of British 
Butterflies,” p. 72 (L895), It is stated (though the authority is not given) 
to have been found in the Andaman Islands. Furthermore, the late 
Mr. E. F. T. Atkinson in 1889 presented a female specimen of this 
