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Show 1883.] MR. F. M O O R E O N LIMNAINA A N D EUPLCEINA. 237 8. TASITIA XANTHIPRUS. Danais xanthippus, Felder, Wien. Ent. Monats. I860, p. 100. Hab. Brazil. 9. TASITIA HERMIPPUS. Danais hermippus, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 348 (1867). Hab. South America (New Granada; Bogota). Genus LIMNAS. Limnas1, Hiibner, Tentamen, i. p. I (1806), nee Boisd. et auct. Danais (Salatura, sect. A), Marshall and deNiceville, Butt, of India &c. p. 49 (1882). " Fore wing narrower, and of a comparatively more lengthened triangular form than in Salatura (genutia) ; costa less arched and the apex more produced, exterior margin less uneven. Hind wing regularly convex exteriorly and the margin more even ; costal vein abruptly arched ; cell shorter at its upper end; discocellulars bent inward near the middle, emitting a short discoidal spur or veinlet within the cell from the angle, lower discocellular slender at its upper end, lower radial from middle of discocellulars opposite the inner spur. Pouch in male similar. Antennae stouter, with a well formed thick club. Larva with three pairs of fleshy filaments. Type L. chrysippus. 1. LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. Papilio chrysippus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (1758) p. 471; Mus. Ulr. p. 263 (1764); Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 767 (1767); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 118. f. B, C; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 50; Hiibn. S. eur. Schmett. i. pl. 133. f. 678-9. Limnas ferr. chrysippus, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. Bd. i. pl. 22. f. 1-4 (1806). Limnas chrysippus, Hiibner, Tentamen, i. p. 1 (1806). Euplcea chrysippus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 15 ; Herbst, Pap. pl. 155. f. 1, 2; Ochsenh. pl. 4. f. 11, 12 ; Zink. Somm. Nova Acta Acad. Nat. Cur. 1831, p. 173. Danais chrysippus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 187 ; Lep. de France, p. 106, pl. 27. f. 1, 2; Latreille, Diet. d'Hist, Nat. 2nd ed. pl. 9, p. 118 ; Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E X C. i. p. 126 ; Trimen, Rhop. Africa? Austral, p. 88 ; Butler, Catal. Lep. Fabr. B. M. p. 5 ; Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 20, pl. i. fig- 10. Salatura chrysippus, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 7, pl. 3. f. 1. Papilio agyptius, Schreb. Ins. p. 9, f. 11, 12 (1759). Danaida chrysippus, Aurivillius, Kong. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1882, p. 70. i Hiibner having adopted this name for P. chrysippus and other species of Danaina? in the Samml. exot. Schmett., thus fixed its type and its restriction to the present group of Butterflies. |
