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Show 1°85.J OF BOMBAY AND T H E DECCAN. 125 NYMPHALID^E. EUPLOSINJE. 1. TlRUMALA LIMNIACE. Pap. limniace, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 59. figs. D, E (1775). Common everywhere all the year round. 2. PARANTICA MELANOIDES. Parantica melanoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 247. Peona, November; Mahableshwur, May ; Bombay. 3. PARANTICA AGLEA. Pap. aglea, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 377. fig. E (1782). Poona, June, November, and December ; Belgaum ; Mahableshwur ; Bombay. This insect is almost identical with P. grammica, Boisd., from Java, but is quite distinct from P. melanoides. In the former the lower subapical streak runs in close to the cell-streak in the fore wings, just below the centre of the first subcostal spot; whereas in the latter species there is a wide division between the two streaks, the two subapical streaks have both their inner ends together, and are just below the innerside of the second subcostal spot; there are also other distinct differences which are very constant in the many examples of both species in m y collection. 4. SALATURA GENUTIA. Pap. genutia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. hi. pi. 206. figs. C, D (1779). Common everywhere all the year round. 5. LlMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. Pap. chrysippus, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 471 (1758). Var. alcippoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. 31. fig. 1. Common everywhere all the year round. Varieties with more or less white in the hind wings occur here and there; I have them cf all sorts and colours, from different parts of India; commencing with some taken in Bombay, in which the veins only are white, a Mhow example with merely a discal white patch, and Kurrachee examples in some of which the hind wing is nearly all white and some only part white; and in none of these is the lower discal spot on the red area of the fore wings, which is one of the distinguishing marks of Moore's type of L. alcippoides, whereas I have one true L. chrysippus female taken at Kurrachee with this spot clear and large. It is impossible to separate these white-marked insects from the true L. chrysippus, because a long series will show a regular gradation, from no white to all white in the hind wings; and this is also the case with the following species, which I believe to be a true species. It has also many varieties of white on the hind wings, and |