. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 34 NYMPHALID^. DANAIN/E. DANAIS. irregular submarginal and marginal row of small spots. Head, thorax, and palpi white spotted. Femora beneath streaked with white. Abdomen, brown above, paler beneath. Underside : Forezuing dark brown ; hindwing umber-brown ; markings as above, but ; &
. The butterflies of India, Burmah and Ceylon. A descriptive handbook of all the known species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera inhabiting that region, with notices of allied species occurring in the neighbouring countries along the border; with numerous illustrations. Butterflies; Butterflies; Butterflies. 34 NYMPHALID^. DANAIN/E. DANAIS. irregular submarginal and marginal row of small spots. Head, thorax, and palpi white spotted. Femora beneath streaked with white. Abdomen, brown above, paler beneath. Underside : Forezuing dark brown ; hindwing umber-brown ; markings as above, but ; "Common in Kottawa forest, but have not seen it ; {Wade). It appears to be confined to the island of Ceylon ; no record of its occurrence elsewhere has been made. A closely allied species belonging to this group has lately been described from Siam under the name of D. persivtilis* 10. Danais nicoTjarica, & de n, D. suiiilis, var. nicobarka, Wood-Mason and de Nic^ville, Journ. A. S. B., vol. i, pt. ji, p. sas (1881). Habitat : Great Nicobar. Expanse : Male, 3-1 inches ; female, 3*2 Description :« Male and Female : Nearest to D. exprompla, Butler from Ceylon, from the figure t of which species (probably that of a female, though the sex is not stated) it differs, in i\i&forrwtng\x\ having the streak in the base of the interno-median area broader, occupying all but the entire breadth of the space, shorter, and marked along the middle by a linear streak (instead of being divided into two long and narrow streaks connected at the base only) ; and, in the hindwing, in having the cell entirely subdiaphanous greenish or bluish white, except for two excessively fine and faint longitudinal and apically-divergent dusky lines much as in D. jtivetita (instead of being divided by two very broad and black ones into two streaks, the posterior of which is strongly recurved at its free end) ; the discal series of bluish streaks immediately beyond the cell
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