34 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
Family—NYMPHALIDZE. 
Sub-Family—Danain&. 
Fig. 12. Danais archippus (nat. size). 
8. DaANAIS ARCHIPPOS, F. 
Dar’-a-is ar-chip’-pus. 
Expanse of wings, from three and three-fourths to four 
and a half inches. 
Upper side of the wings tawny orange red, with the veins 
heavily marked with black, and the borders black spotted with 
white. Under side somewhat paler, but the white spots are 
more prominent. 
Body black, more or less spotted and marked with white. 
The males have a black spot by the side of vein 2, near the 
middle of the hind wing. 
The larva of this insect feeds on the different species of 
milk-weed (Asclepias), and bitter root (Apocynum androse- 
mifolium). 
The eggs are deposited singly on the under side of the 
leaves. When first laid they are white, but in two or three 
days they turn yellow, and just before hatching they change 
to dull gray. They are somewhat conical in form, one twenty- 
fifth of an inch long, and marked with about twenty-five longi- 
