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METAMORPHOSES OF BRAZILIM LEPIDOPTERA 



KHOPALOCERA. 



Family Nymphalid^. 



Subfam. Danaince. 



LXII. — Danais Erippus. 



Papilio Eripims, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 3, fig. a. b. (1775). 



Papilio Archippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 49 (1793). 



Smith, Abbott, Ins. Georgia, i., pi. 6. 



Larva, a, Full-fed. San Paulo, March 6, 1880. 



The caterpillar feeds on a species of Asclepias, and is found 

 full-fed at the end of February. (See fig. 1, plate VI.) 



Pupa, a, March, 1880. 



When full-fed the caterpillar suspends itself by the tail, 

 and in that position changes to the beautiful pale green 

 chrysalis, ornamented with a ring of gold round the abdomen 

 and gold spots on other parts of the body. 



Imago, a, b. 



The butterfly appears a fortnight after the caterpillar is 

 full-fed. 



XXV. — Mechanitis Lysimnia. 



Papilio Lysimnia, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 161 (1793). 

 Hiibner, Zutr. Exot. Schmett. fig. 187-8. 

 Ova. 

 The beautiful white eggs are laid in clusters of about a 



