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Show 188"!.] MR. F. MOORE ON LIMNAINA AND EUPLCEINA. 241 on both wings being of a much darker tint. On the fore wing there is no red spot between the upper and middle median veins, which is always present in 8. genutia; the subapical white spots are also narrower. On the hind wing there is only a single row of marginal spots, which are very small, and in the male obsolescent. Expanse, cf 2§, $ 2| inches. Hab. Java (Horsfield) ; Lombok; Borneo. In colls. British Museum and F. Moore. Note. The larva of this species figured bv Horsfield (I. c.) is erroneously (?) represented with only two pairs of fleshy filaments. 4. SALATURA NESIPPUS. Banais nesippus, Felder, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. xii. p. 486 (1862); Reise der Novara, Lep. ii. p. 347; Moore, P.Z.S. 1877, p. 582. Danais (Salatura) nesippus, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India p. 55 (1882). Hab. Nicobars (Sambelong, Nancowry, Kar Nicobar). 5. SALATURA MELANIPPUS. Papilio melanippus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 127. f A B (1777) Herbst, pl. 155. f. 7, 8. Danais melanippus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 189. Hab. Java (Horsfield). 6. SALATURA INTERMEDIA, n. sp. Danais genutia, var., Distant, Rhopaloc. Malayana, p. 18. pl. 2. i. 3, 8 • Intermediate between S. genutia and 8. sumatrana. Fore wing, in both sexes, like that of S. genutia, except that the black median veins are narrower. Hind wing, in both sexes, with similar breadth and length of interspaces between the veins as in 8. genutia; but these interspaces are white, and their outer ends only slightly suffused with red ; the marginal white spots are larger than those in G. sumatrana. Expanse, cf $ 3| inches. Hab. Malacca, Singapore. In colls. Brit. Museum and F. Moore. 7. SALATURA HEGESIPPUS. Papilio hegesippus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 180. f. A (1777), $; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 52. Danais hegesippus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 189. Danais (Salatura) hegesippus, Marshall & de Niceville, Butt, of India, p. 55 (1882). Danais melanippus, Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 10, pl. 9. f. 1 (1846). Danais melanippus, var. hegesippus, Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 19, pl. 2. f. 1 (1882). Hab. Eastern Bengal, Orissa, British Burmah, Malay peninsula, Penang. Note. The specimen of 8. hegesippus in the British-Museum col- |