THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Nos 162&163.] DECEMBER, MDCCCLXXVI. 



[PlUCK Is. 



DiDiiiis Aichippus in Siisse.v. By Rev. Thomas E. Crallan. 



Lauva of Danais Archippus. 



For some two or three years there have been riinionrs of 

 the appearance in tliis neighboinhood of an unusual butterfly. 

 The different people who have told me what they have seen 

 have varied so much in their descriptions that it would be 

 very difficult to believe that they had not seen as many 

 different species, if it were not that persons not thoroughly 

 familiar with the objects they attempt to describe are so very 

 apt to give the most opposite descriptions of the same 

 thing. 



One lady saw a butterfly in her greenhouse, which she was 

 sure was like some she had seen in India; but, neglecting to 

 shut the windows before attempting to capture the insect, 

 she had the mortification of seeing it escape. Another lady 

 described to me a butterfly, which she had seen, as white, 

 with a blue rim round its wings. 1 thought she had seen 

 Vanessa Antiopa, and, being dazzled by sunlight, had 

 transposed the colours. Then, another lady saw a butterfly 

 drving its wings on the stem of a tree after emerging from 

 the chrysalis, and described it as yellow, with black lines 

 across its wings. Of course this was the appearance of the 



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