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EUPLCEA PLEXIPPE. 
PLATE IX. Fig. 2. 
Danais Plexippe, Godart. — Pap. Plexippus, Linn., Fabr. — Pap. 
Genutia, Cramer , PI. 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 
