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upper side of the hind wing, being narrowly edged with white. 
6. DANAIDA (SALATURA) PLEXIPPUS, B., E.; Salatura 
genutia, M., De N. 
Found in India, Burmah, Malaya, S. China, etc. 
Bell says (“Common Butterflies of the Plains of India’’): 
“Some specimens from dry regions show a tendency to 
replace the tawny part of the hind wing by white, thus 
approaching the next species’ (D. hegestppus). I have 
noticed this variation, to a slight extent, occasionally in 
Ceylon, but it is not here confined to the dry zone, as Ihave 
found it most frequently at Galle and Haldummulla. In 
Ceylon, however, the dry regions have been, so far, very little 
worked and little is known of the variations to be found there. 
It is a much more active insect than the last, and joins te 
a limited extent in the flights. It is common all over the 
Island all the year round. 
7. DANAIDA (PARANTICA) AGLEA, B., E.; Parantica 
ceylonica, M.; Danais ceylanica, De N. 
De Nicéville says: “ D. ceylanica is really a local form of 
D. grammica, which is the common S. Indian species...... 
it is doubtful whether the name ceylanica should not be 
suppressed and the Ceylon species be included under the 
name grammica.’ He gives D. aglea as the form from N. 
India and Burmah. Bingham gives aglea as the S. Indian 
and Ceylon form, and melanoides as that from Northern and 
Eastern India; it differs in having the wings longer and 
narrower, and the hyaline marks very much broader than in 
aglea. 
Ceylon specimens vary in the width of the hyaline marks. 
It is very plentiful at all elevations in the southern half 
of the Island all the year round, but especially so during the 
NE. monsoon. It becomes scarcer in the north and I have 
so far no notes of its capture in Jaffna and Mannar. It joins 
to a very limited extent in the flights. 
8. DANAIDA (CHITTIRA) FuMATA, M., B., E. Chittira 
taprobana, De N. 
Peculiar to Ceylon and confined to high elevations, where 
