NOTES ON DANAID BUTTERFLIES — CLARK 537 



Specimens examified. — Mexico: Esperaiiza, Colima, August 2, 1916, 

 1 $ (Leopold Conradt). El Salvador: San Salvador, October 1920, 

 1 S. Costa Rica: Juan Vinas, 2,500-3,500 feet, 2 $ 9 (Schaus and 

 Barnes). Panama: Chiriquicito, July, 2 $ S (Schaus and Barnes). 

 Colombia : No further data, 1 $ . Ecuador : Sarayaco, 3 ? $ (W. 

 Schaus) ; Macas. 3,500 feet, July 1 $ (Mrs. James B. Rorer) ; Banos, 



1 $ ; no further data, 2 9 $ (Prof. F. Campos R.). Peru: Chan- 

 chamayo, 1 S. Venezuela: Aroa, 1 $ (W. Schaus). British 

 Guiana: Rockstone, Essequibo, 1 S (Schaus and Barnes); no fur- 

 ther data, 3 $3,1 9 . French Guiana : St. Jean, Maroni, 1 $ 

 (W. Schaus). St. Lucia: No further data, 1 6 (W. Schaus). 

 Dominica: No further data, 1 $ (Prof. Harry Ward Foote, Yale ex- 

 plorations June-July 1913); July 29, 1903 1 9 (August Busck). 

 Puerto Rico: Mayagiiez, January 1899, 1 9 (August Busck). Do- 

 minican Republic : Samana, 1 9 . South America : No further data, 



2 $ S . 1 9 . No locality : 2 9 9 . Louisiana : Rigolets Pass, St. 

 Tammany Parisli, 3 $ $,1 9 (Percy Viosca, Jr.). Florida: Key 

 West, December 18, 1936, 1 9 (Lucien Harris, Jr.) . North Carolina : 

 Northern end of Currituck Sound, July 4, 1938. Virginia : Back Bay, 

 Princess Anne County, Juh- 4, 1938; 2 miles west of Spring Grove, 

 Surry County, June 15, 1938. New York : Long Island, September, 

 1 9 . Illinois, Decatur, July 24^30, 1 9 . 



Notes. — Long ago W. F. Kirby correctly identified Hiibner's figures 

 of Anosia megali'ppe as representing the southern form of the commoji 

 North American plexippus. He recorded the fact that whereas 

 Hiibner showed the apical spots on the fore wings as white, in plexippus 

 "most of the apical spots on the fore wings are not white, but tawny."' 

 He gave the habitat of megalippe as the Antilles, Venezuela, Bogota, 

 and Ecuador. But his determination seems generally to have been 

 overlooked, and in 1909 Dr. R. Haensch renamed this form mgripjms. 



This is the subspecies represented by Dr. W. J. Holland in "The 

 Butterfly Book," plate 7, figure 1. The figured specimen in the Car- 

 negie Museum, as I have been kindly informed by Dr. Hugo Kahl and 

 Ralph Chermock, bears the label ^"Danais erippiis, South America" and 

 was obtained from Dr. Staudinger. It agrees well with others at 

 hand from the Guianas. 



The specimens from western South America, including Venezuela, 

 and Central America, are somewhat darker and more reddish than 

 those from the Guianas, the West Indies, and the eastern United States, 

 but the dijfference is very slight and inconsistent. 



Godman and Salvin noted that three examples from St. Vincent 

 (both windward and leeward sides) had white subapical spots, agree- 

 ing Avith South American specimens. Tliey had many specimens from 

 Dominica, all belonging "to the form prevalent in the northern parts 



