t»ANAUS. *9 



D. plexippus as the type. It appears best to use the original 

 Linnean form Danaus, and to associate it with male mytho- 

 logical names, included among his Danai by Linnaeus; on the 

 principle that a species should agree in gender with its genus. 



DANAUS PLEXIPPUS. 



{Plate V., Fig. 1.) 



Papilio plexippus, Linn., Syst. Nat. (cd. x.), p. 471, no. 80 



(1758) ; id., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 282 (1764). 

 Danais p/exippe, Godart, Encycl. Meth., ix., p. 1S6, no. 35 



(1819). 

 Danais bkxippus, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. Lepid. E. I. C. Mus., 



i., p. 124, pi. 4, figs. 6, 6a (transf.) (1857). 

 Papilio genutia, Cramer, Pap. Exot, hi., pi. 206, figs. C, D. 



(i779)- 

 Danais genutia, Marsh. & De Nicev. Butterflies Ind., i., pp. 7, 



52 (1882); Dist. Rhopal. Malay., p. 18, pi. 2, f. 2 (1882). 

 Salatura genutia, Moore, Lepid. Ceyl., i., p. 6, pi. 4, fig. 



(18S0); id., Lepid. Ind., i., p. 45, pi. 10, figs. 1, ia-c 



(1890). 

 This insect, which is the type of its genus, is a handsome 

 Butterfly, measuring three or four inches across the wings, 

 which are tawny, or fulvous, with black nervures, and black 

 borders, spotted with white. The apical third of the fore- 

 wings is black, crossed by a broad white bar, divided into 

 spots by the nervures The head and thorax are black, dotted 

 with white, and the abdomen is tawny, like the wings. It is a 

 common insect in India, and is found in fields and gardens, 

 as well as in woods. The larva is black, with white and yellow 

 markings, and three pairs of filaments ; the pupa is bright 

 green. 



Linnaeus confounded this species with the North American 

 Anosia menippe (Hiibner), and this Butterfly is often regarded 

 as the true Danaus pic.ippus (Linn.) ; but Linnxus describes his 



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