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by the tail and a girdle across the middle. (The true Papiliones have a 
leaf-like appendage to the fore tibie—a character which approximates the 
family to the Hesperide and moths. 
Subfamily 1. Pierine. Abdominal margin of the hind wing not curved 
inwards. 
Subfamily 2. Papilionine. Abdominal margin of the hind wing curving 
inwards, 
Family 5. Hesperiwm. Six perfect legs in both sexes; hind tibie, with 
few exceptions, having two pairs of spurs. Pupa secured by many threads, 
or enclosed in a slight cocoon.’* 
Excepting that a few sub-families have been added, this arrangement 
remains in its entirety, and is the basis of the classification adopted by all 
the rising generation of European lepidopterists. 
The butterflies of New Zealand are at present restricted to three of the 
five families—Nymphalide, Lycenide, and Papiiionide. 
Family Nymphalide, Westwood. 
This group is represented in New Zealand by three subfamilies— 
Danaine, Satyrine, and Nymphaline. 
Subfamily Danainm, Bates. 
Danais, Latreille. 
1. Danais archippus. 
Papilio a Fabricius, Spec. Ins., p. 55, n. 243 (1781). 
“ Alis repandis fulvis venis margineque albo punetato nigris: anticis 
maeulis apicis peas habitat in Americá Meridionali.” }—Fabr. 
I have not thought it necessary to quote the full synonymy of this 
introduced species: if required, it will all be found in Kirby’s * Synonymio 
Catalogue.” 
Mr. Charles V. Riley, in his “ Third Annual Report of the noxious, 
beneficial, and other Insects of the State of Missouri,” gives the following 
interesting account of the habits and earlier stages of this beautiful butterfly 
(pp. 144-8). ** The species feeds upon most of the different kinds of milk- 
weed or silk-weed ( Asclepias j, and also upon dogbane / Apocynum), according 
io some authors. It shows a wonderful dislike, however, to the poke 
milk-weed ( Asclepias phytolaccoides), and I was surprised to find that larve 
furnished with this plant would wander about their breeding-cages day after 
day, and would eventually die rather than touch it, though they would 
eagerly commence devouring the leaves of either A. tuberosa, curassavica, 
cornuti, or purpurascens, as soon as offered to them. 
* Journal of Entomology, No. X., pp. 176—7 (1864). 
1 Whenever Fabricius was doubtful as to whether a species was obtained in North 
or South America, he seems to have put it down as South, 
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