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large 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. ^X 2 S~ 4- 



Euplcea Ochlea, Boisd., App. Toy. de Deleg., p. 589. 



Expands 3 in. 3 in. 1 lin. 



Black ; with a large, semi-transparent, white patch in both 

 wings, 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 white dot ; two similar dots 

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

 third median nervule ; fringe varied with 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, 

 trending 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-wing, and 

 broad hind-marginal portion of hind-wing, 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-wing : 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- 



