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EUPLCEA PLEXIPPE. 

 PLATE IX. Fig. 2. 



Danais Plexippe, Godari. — Pap. Plexippus, Linn., Fair. — Pap. 

 Genutia, Cramer, PI. 206, fig. C, D. 



This insect affords an example of a pretty extensive 

 and beautiful group which is strikingly characterised 

 by the prevalence of a peculiar colour and unifor- 

 mity of design in the markings. The ground colour 

 is a rich chestnut-brown, varying considerably in 

 the intensity of the shade, the wings widely mar- 

 gined on the outside with black, more or less 

 interrupted with white spots; the black colour 

 sometimes running along the nervures in a broad 

 stripe. They are common both to the old and new 

 world, and many of them are very abundant. E. 

 Plexippe occurs in the East Indies and China, also 

 in the islands of Java, Ceylon, &c. and often ap- 

 pears in great plenty. The colour is light chestnut - 

 brown, approaching to fulvous, the whole external 

 border of the wings with a broad black band, dilated 

 at the apex of the superior pair so as to occupy the 

 whole angle ; this band bears two rows of small 

 unequal white spots, and the black space at the 

 summit of the upper wings has a broad oblique 

 band of pure white, angular on the edges, and formed 



