nymphalim;. 



Larva. So far as known subcylindrical, with two or three pairs 

 of non-retractile tentacula. 



Pupa. Comparatively broad, ovate, contracted medially, green, 

 waxy white, or yellow, spotted and banded with black, golden 

 yellow and silver ; sometimes entirely of a shining golden yellow. 



Key to the forms of Danais. 



A. Fore wing tawny, with black margins and 

 white spots ; larva with three pairs of 

 fleshy tentacula. 



a. Middle discocellular in hind wing slightly 



curved inwards ; veins in both wings 

 conspicuously bordered with black. 

 a'. Discoidal cell and disc of hind wing 

 entirely tawny. 

 a 2 . Hind wing with a row of white spots 



on black terminal margin D. plexippus, p. 10. 



b 2 . Hind whig without any white spots 



on black terminal margin Var. nipalensis, p. 11. 



b'. Discoidal cell and disc of hind wing I D.liegesippus, p. 11, with 

 more or less streaked with white . . j var. nestppus, p. 11. 



b. Middle discocellular in hind wing bent 



inwards at almost a right angle in 

 the middle ; veins in wings not con- 

 spicuously bordered with black. 

 a. Apical third of fore wing black above, 

 with a preapical obliquely-placed row 

 of elongate white spots. 

 a 2 . Discoidal cell and disc of hind wing 



entirely tawny D. chrysippus, p. 1 1. 



b 2 . Discoidal cell and disc of hind wing I Var. alcippus, p. 12, and 

 more or less marked with white . . ) var. ahippoides, p. 1 2. 

 b'. Apex of fore wing with narrow even 

 margin only, of black spotted with 

 white ; preapical row of white spots j Dimorphic form 



quite obsolete ) dorippus, p. 12. 



B. Fore wing fuliginous black, with subhyaline 

 streaks and spots of bluish white ; larva, 

 so far as known, with two pairs of fleshy 

 tentacula. 



a. Ground-colour of hind wing bright 



chestnut-red above and below D. tytia, p. 13. 



b. Ground-colour of hind wing purplish 



black above, beneath more or less 



chestnut B. melanea. p. 14. 



c. Ground-colour of hind wing fuliginous 



black above and below. 

 a'. Lower discocellular of hind wing not 

 bent inwards at an angle with middle 

 discocellular. 

 a 2 . Vein 11 in fore wing anastomosed 

 with vein 12. <$ without sex-marks 

 on winjars. 



