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larjre size and semi-transparent whiteness of its markings, 

 which in the former are more or less ochreous in tint, parti- 

 cularly in the hind-wing. I have never seen D. Chrysippus 

 in woods, though it is fond of marshy spots immediately 

 skirting a wood ; while, on the contrary, I never saw D. 

 Echeria in any locality but woods and copses. D. Ochlea is 

 probably a forest Butterfly. 



54. Danais Ochlea. 



Euploea Ochlea, Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 589. 



Expands ^ in. — 3 in. 1 lin. 



Black ; with a large, semi-trayisparent, lohite patch in both 

 toings, and smaller, similar, marginal white spots. Fore- 

 wing : a little before middle a large, obliquely-lying, irregu- 

 larly-ovate, white patch, divided into three portions by the 

 median nervure and its third nervule, its upper edge touching 

 subcostal before middle, its lower edge touching submedian 

 nervure considerably beyond middle ; at extremity of dis- 

 coidal cell, but above subcostal nervure, a small white spot ; 

 further on, in the same line, is a similar small spot, the first 

 of an oblique apical row of three spots (of which the second 

 is large, elongate, divided into three portions by the crossing 

 nervules, — the third of moderate size, round, close to hind- 

 margin) ; near apex and costa, a w-hite dot ; two similar dots 

 close to hind-margin, one below second, the other below 

 third median nervule ; fringe varied wdth white. Hind-wing : 

 a very large white patch, of a sub-rhomboidal form, and 

 divided into ten portions of unequal shape and size by the 

 crossing nervures, occupies the greater part of wing, — leaving 

 a triangular black space at base, it extends along costa (with 

 a narrow black edging) to a little beyond middle, — thence, 

 trendhig towards hind-margin, reaches its outermost point 

 between discoidal nervule and first median nervule, — narrow- 

 ing to inner-margin, where it is of a more dusky white, and 

 not so clearly defined on its edges ; on hind-margin, not far 

 from its edge two or three white dots, the lowermost one 

 immediately beneath first median nervule ; fringe spotted 

 with white. Under-side. — Larger white markings similar 

 to those of upper-side ; apical portion of fore-iving, and 

 broad hind-marginal portion of hind-iving, glossy ochreous- 

 brown. Fore-wing : two white dots close to apex ; in middle 

 portion of hind-marginal edge a row of five small white dots. 

 Hind-ioing : several additional white dots in hind-marginal 

 row of spots, the lowermost dot being between third median 

 nervule and sub-median nervure ; an outer row of white dots, 

 arranged in pairs between nervules along the whole hind- 



