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severity of the winter of 1808. It is common in Persia, in 
Syria, and other places on the Asiatic border of the Mediter- 
ranean. It is spread over the whole of South Asia ; in fact 
it extends to every zoological region of the Old World, and is 
replaced by very closely allied species in the Nearctic and Neo- 
tropical Kegions. 
Larva. — Grey, with transverse black streaks, and lateral 
stripes of green and yellow. It is furnished with three pairs of 
elastic processes, one pair on the third segment being the longest, 
and the other two on the sixth and twelfth segments being of about 
equal length. Feeds on Asclepiadce. 
Pupa. — Flattened in the abdominal segments, bright green, 
with metallic golden markings (all stages figured on PI. LIV.). 
OTHER SPECIES OF DANAIDiE MENTIONED BY STAUDINGER. 
Danais Chrijsippus, var. Alcippus, Fah. Ent. Syst. p. 50. — 
Chrijsippuis, Or. Pap. Ex. 118, E, F; Boisd. Ic. 18, 4 . — A variety 
occurring in Asia Minor and Syria, in which the hind wings are 
white, excepting along the hind margins. 
Danais Dorippus, King. Symb. Phys. Ic. v. T. 48. — About the 
size of Chnjsippiis. All the wings are a light fulvous colour, with a 
narrow black border, on which are a few white spots; the fore 
wings are not tipped with black, and are without white spots. 
Habitat : Syria. 
NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF DANAID4]]. 
Only three species occur in North America. One of these, 
Danais Archippiis (Cramer, iii. pi. 206), is a large insect, measuring 
between three and four inches, with the wings brighter in colour 
and more strongly marked with black than D. Chrfisippus ; all the 
wings have a border of black, marked with white and yellow spots. 
Its range extends from Canada to Brazil, and from the Atlantic 
to the Pacific. This species occasionally migrates or gets 
imported into the Old World, and has several times been taken 
