Ob RHOPALOCERA AFRICA AUSTRALIS. 



pinches often fail in depriving it of life, or even inducing it to cease ilappinpf 

 its wings. I never saw the insect in the woods of Plettenberg Bay, though 

 only 23 miles from Knysna. 



Knysna.— Coll. mihi. 



Natal.— Coll. S. A. Mus. 



South Africa. Port Natal.— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



" Bay of Port Natal."— Boisd. 



56. Danais Chrysippus. 



Papilio Chrysippus, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 767, n. 119. 

 „ „ „ Mus.Lud.Ulr. Reg. 1^.263,11.82. 



„ „ Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 482, n. 172. 



„ „ Cram., Pap. Exot., pi, 118, f. B, C. 



it j> Herhst, Naturs. Bek. Ins. — Schmett., 



[VII, pi. 155, f. 1, 2. 



„ „ Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 50, n. 154. 



Euploea Chrysippe, Hiihn.,Verz. Beh. Schmett., p. 15, n. 81. 



Danais Chrysippe, Godt., Enc. Meth., IX, p. 187, n. 38. 



Danais Chrysippus, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., Bourb., et 



[Maur., p. 35. 

 „ „ Doubl., List. Lep. Brit. Mus., I, p. 51. 



„ „ Horsf. and Moore, Cat. Lep, E. I. C. 



[Mus., I, p. 126. 

 Expands 2 in. 8 lin. — 3 in. 5 lin. 



Dull red-ochre ; with white-spotted black margins. Fore- 

 wing : costa with a narrow black edging as far as extremity 

 of discoidal cell, where the black suddenly widens, covering 

 apical portion of wing, and narrowing again to anal angle, — 

 the inner edge of the black is irregularly excavate ; on costa, 

 before middle, almost invariably an elongate, small, white 

 mark ; followed, a little further on, by a similar, rather 

 larger mark, immediately above extremity of discoidal cell, 

 where there is generally a small, rounded white spot ; be- 

 yond these, an oblique row of six more or less closely-con- 

 nected, somewhat quadrate, white spots, extends from costa 

 to bend of hind-margin, meeting a hind-marginal row of from 

 four to six small white spots, situate close to hind-margin's 

 edge, about its middle ; two white spots at apex, the outer 

 one close to commencement of hind-margin ; above these two 

 spots, and a little before them, are sometimes two minute 

 white dots ; almost always a rounded white spot between first 

 and second median nervules, close to the junction of red and 

 black ; and between the same nervules, immediately beneath 

 the sixth spot of the oblique row, a similar, rather smaller 

 spot ; fringe conspicuously black and white cheqviered. 

 Hind-wing : rather paler than fore-wing ; three ill-defined 



