. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 16 NYMPHALID^E. Wood-Mason in his original description ot the form speaks of a" little specialized sexual mark or gland " on the hind wing. There is no trace of this in the <S specimen I have examined. 12. Danais limniace, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. i, 1775, figs. D, E, 2 ', Moore (Tirumala), Lep. Ceijl. i, 1880. p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 3; Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 47 ; Moore (Tirumala), Lep. hid. i, 1890-92, p. 30, pi. 6, figs. 1, larva & pupa, la, lb, S 2 • <$ 2 - Upper side black, with bluish-white seinihy aline spots and streaks
. Butterflies. Vol. Lepidoptera. 16 NYMPHALID^E. Wood-Mason in his original description ot the form speaks of a" little specialized sexual mark or gland " on the hind wing. There is no trace of this in the <S specimen I have examined. 12. Danais limniace, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. i, 1775, figs. D, E, 2 ', Moore (Tirumala), Lep. Ceijl. i, 1880. p. 4, pi. 1, fig. 3; Butt. Ind. i, 1882, p. 47 ; Moore (Tirumala), Lep. hid. i, 1890-92, p. 30, pi. 6, figs. 1, larva & pupa, la, lb, S 2 • <$ 2 - Upper side black, with bluish-white seinihy aline spots and streaks. Fore wing: interspace 1 two streaks, sometimes coales- cent, with a spot beyond; cell: a streak from base and an outwardly indented spot at its apex; a large oval spot at base of interspace 2, another at base of interspace 3, with a smaller spot beyond it towards termen; five obliquely placed preapical streaks, and somewhat irregular subterminal and terminal series of spots, the latter the smaller. Hind wing : interspaces 1 b, la, and 1 with streaks from base, double in the latter two, cell with a forked broad streak, the lower branch with a hook, or spur-like Fig. 5.—Danais limniace, $. i. short projection ; beyond the cell at base of interspaces 2 and 3 a slender loop, at base of 4 and 5 a broad elongate streak, and at base of 6 a quadrate spot; beyond these again a number of scat- tered unequal subterminal and terminal spots. Underside : basal two-thirds of fore wing dusky black, the apex and hind wing olive-brown, the spots and streaks much as on the upperside. Antennae, head and thorax black, the latter two spotted and streaked with white ; abdomen dusky above, ochraceous spotted with white beneath. Male secondary sex-mark in form 1. Exp. S 2 98-106 mm. (3-8-4-2"). Hab. Throughout our limits and extending into Siam and China. Larva. Yellowish white; 3rd and 12th segments, each with a pair of fleshy filaments, black and greenish white; each of the segments with f
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