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to Clerck's figure, and the ostensible types;- and to call the common 

 American species, now becoming naturalised among us, by the name of 

 Anosia menippe, Hiibner." 



.D. plexippus is quite as common both in Mussoorie and Dehra Dun 

 as the preceding species. The female has been observed ovipositing in 

 Mussoorie on Cynanchum Dalhousi<B t Wight, Natural Order Asclepi- 

 dem. Mr. Angus Campbell informs us that on 10th April, 1888, at 

 Nalapani, in the Dun, he captured a male D. plexippusm coition 

 with a female D. chrysippus, Linnaeus. 



5. Danais (Parantica) melanoides, Moore. 



'Kot common either in Mussoorie or in Dehra Dun. A few are on 

 the wing in May and August, but it is more numerous in September 

 and October. 



6. Danais (Caduga) sita, Kollar. Plate U, Figs, la, lb, larva j 



lc, Id, pupa. 



This butterfly, better known under the name of D. fyim, Gray, is 

 fairly < numerous in September and October in Mussoorie and Dehra 

 Dun; and a few appear in April and May in Mussoorie. It is found 

 also in the Upper Ganges Valley before that great river breaks through 

 the hills on to the plains at Hard war ; also in the Native State of Tehri 

 Garhwal to the north and east of Mussoorie in May and July. The 

 eggs are white, longitudinally ribbed, and about three timesTas long as 

 they are broad ; they are laid singly on the young leaves of Marsdeniq , 

 Roylei, Wight, Natural Order Asclepiadece, the food-plant of the larva. 

 The larva on emergence is of a dirty white colour, with transverse lines 

 on each segment, and has two somewhat long and thin tentacles ^or 

 processes on the third and two shorter ones on the twelfth segment as 

 in the allied subgenus Parantica (D. aglea, Cramer, from South India 

 and Ceylon). When full-fed, the larva is about an inch-and-a-half 

 long, the ground-colour is of a pale yellowish-green, with two rows of 

 dorsal and a row on each side of lateral yellow spots ; the head is black 

 with grey spots on the face j the legs black. Pupa paje emerald-green 

 with golden-yellow spots. From eggs laid in September the imago 

 emerged in the following April. The transformations of this species 

 do not appear to have been previously observed. The butterfly is the 

 model for the mimicking Hestina nama, Doubleday, and Papilio 

 govindra, Moore. . 



