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p. 120, pi. 4, f. 11, 12 (18IG). Zinkcn-Sommer, Nova Acta Akad. Nat. Cur. xv. p. 173 



(1831). 

 Danais chrysipptig, Grodart, Enc. ML-th. ix. p. 187 (1819) ; vl. Lep. France, p. lOG, [jI. 27, fig. 1, 2. 



LatreUle, Diet. d'Hist. Nat. 2nd Ed. p. 118, pi. 9. Trimen, Ehop. Atr. Austr. p. 88 (1862). 



Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 5 (1869). Distant, Ehop. Malayana, p. 20, pi. 1, fig. 10 



(1882). 

 Salatura clmjsippus, Moore, Lepidoptera of Ceylon, i. p. 7, pi. 3, fig. 1 (1880). 

 Danaida chi-ysijjjjus, Aurivilliiis, Korigl. Vet. Akad. Handl. 1882, p. 70. 

 Danais (Salatura) clirysippvs, Marshall and De Niccvillc, Butt, of India, &c., I. p. 50, pi. 6, fig. 10, 



i ? (1882). 

 Anosia Chnjsipims, Semper, Eeisen Archipel. Philippen, Lep. p. 16, pi. A. f. 2, 2a, larva ^ pupa. 

 Papilio JEgyjMug, Schreher, Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 9, fig. 11, 12 (1759). 

 Papilio ascJepiadis, Gagliardi, Atti Instit. Napol. i. p. 155, pi. 1 (1811). 



Imago. — Male and female. TTpperside: foreicing with the costal margin and 

 apical area curving to posterior angle brownish-black ; the basal area including the 

 veins bright ferruginous, darkest anteriorly ; two very small white spots on middle 

 of the costa, one — and sometimes two — immediately beyond end of the cell, one 

 above the disc, two on middle of the submargin, an incomplete marginal row of 

 dots, two or three before the apex, and an oblique subapical series of larger spots. 

 Hindiving bright ferruginous, with a narrow sinuous marginal black band containing 

 a row of white dots, which are obsolescent anteriorly ; the small black spots at end 

 of the cell, and in the male, a black quadrate spot encompassing a scent-pouch 

 situated close to the lower median vein between it and the submedian. Cilia 

 alternated with white. Head, thorax, antenna, legs and palpi, black, spotted with 

 white ; thorax above and femora beneath white streaked ; abdomen ferruginous 

 above, white beneath. 



Underside of the wings, as above, the ferruginous colour being paler and 

 brighter, the white spots more prominent, those at end of the cell and the marginal 

 band on the hindwing, white bordered, and the pouch of the male white centred. 



Expanse, 2^ to 3 inches. 



" Egg. — Sugar-loaf shaped ; cream colour. Deposited singly on under surface 

 of the leaf. 



"Young Caterpillar. — When hatched the tentacula are barely visible. After 

 first moult, I inch long; ground colour bluish-lilac; dorsal line faint; sides bright 

 yellow ; abdomen greenish, ventral line darkish green ; prolegs greenish-yellow or 

 brown, streaked with black, thoracic legs the same; anal segment with a broad black 

 dash and a large square patch below it. Head the same colour as body, with two 

 semicircular black bands, one within the other ; sjjiracles black. On each segment 

 are five narrow bands of black, and between the second and third band is a broad 

 yellow dash, divided by the dorsal line ; at the exterior margin of these spots, on 



