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EUPL05A. PLEXIPPE. 

 PLATE IX. Fig. 2. 



DanaisPlexippe, God-arf .-—Pap. Plexippus, Linn., Fair. — Pap. 

 Genutia, Cramer, P). 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 



