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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 245 2. RAVADEBA LUTESCENS. Danais lutescens, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 172, fig. 3, $ . Hab. Ceram ; Bouru; Batchian. 3. RAVADEBA PHYLE. Danais phyle, Felder, Wien. ent. Monats. 1863, p. 105 ; Novara- Reise, Lep. ii. p. 348, pl. 42. fig. 8, cf • Hab. Philippines (Luzon, 4000 to 5000 feet). BAHORA, n. g. Danais (Parantica, Sect. A, part.), Marshall & de Niceville, Butt. of India &c. p. 35. Male with a comparatively narrower fore wing than in Parantica ; fore wing with the subcostal emitted at one fifth before end of the cell, first branch free; discocellulars bent below the upper radial, producing a short spur within the cell from the angle ; lower discocellular slender at its upper end : hind wing more arched near base of the costa, the exterior margin more oblique below the apex and convexly angular beyond the middle ; abdominal margin also longer ; pouches similar. Female with more rounded exterior margins. Type B. philomela. 1. BAHORA ASPASIA. Papilio aspasia, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 15 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 170. Danais aspasia, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M . p. 7- Hab. Borneo. 2. BAHORA PHILOMELA. Euploea philomela, Zink.-Som. Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. xv. p. 184, pl. 16. fig. 17(1831). Euplcea philomela, Butler, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 456. Danais (Parantica) philomela, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India &c. p. 36. Hab. Java; ?Billiton. 3. BAHORA CROCEA. Danais crocea, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 57, pl. iv. fig. 5. Danais aspasia, var. crocea, Distant, Rhopalocera Malayana, p. 13, pl. 1. fig. 7(1882). Danais (Parantica) crocea, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India &c. p. 37 (1882), pl. 5. f. 6, cf. Hab. British Burmah, Kyouk Phyoo ; Mergui (Anderson); Malay peninsula ; Province Wellesley ; Penang (Distant) ; Malacca; Singapore (Wallace); Sumatra (Buxton). PHIRDANA, n. g. Fore wing very short, broad, triangular, apex convex, exterior margin oblique, cell comparatively long and broad at the end; dis- |