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DANAINjE. 
Fig. 7 > PI. i is from a £ taken in August. The $ is similar, but the neuration of the 
wings is broadly bordered with black, and the scent-sac is wanting in the hindwing. 
The larva, according to Scudders Butterflies of New England , seems to resemble that 
of D. chrysippus , and its foodplant is the same. 
Danais (Limnas) chrysippus, Linn. 
Very common and on the wing throughout the year. It has rather a weak flight, gener¬ 
ally keeping not far from the ground, and is very fond of flowers. An exceptionally interesting 
butterfly because it is mimicked to perfection by the $ of Hypolimnas misippus and also, in South 
Africa, by sp. of Acrceince. This Danais is a very widely distributed insect. It varies very much 
in size in both sexes, in the wet as well as the dry season. The $ is like the $ but has no scent-sac 
on the hindwing. 
Fig. 6, PI. I is from a $ taken in March. 
The egg is nearly white, about twice as long as broad, slightly striated longitudinally. It 
is laid singly on either side of the leaves or on the flower-stems of the foodplant, Asclepias 
curassavica , L., a plant native to Trop. America, now naturalised here and over most of Kwang- 
tung. 
The larva is figured on PI. ia, Fig. 5, pupa Fig. 6. The spots on the pupa are gilt, 
represented in the figure by yellow. The larvae rest indifferently on either side of the leaves. 
Occasionally a larva is extremely pale in colouring, the black transverse bars being replaced by very 
pale brown or ochreous; or sometimes a specimen will be of a uniform dull green, though retaining 
the yellow markings, but the resulting imago is the usual form. The larvae are most voracious, 
and rapidly attain their full growth. 
It may be here noted that the sp. of Danais in this district seem to exhibit little, if 
any, seasonal change of form or colour. 
The natives generally misunderstand the purpose of the net, and one constantly hears 
« Tseuk-tsaif “ tseuk-tsai ”—small birds—he’s catching small birds. Wu tip or Oo tip is the word 
commonly used for “butterfly” by the country people, though Mr. Dyer Ball informs me that $$$§, 
Wu tsity is the most correct form, whilst ij$] gig, Wu tip is that most generally in use. Yet another 
term is Pang shd, for which there are no characters. Moths are differentiated as Tang ngo , jgg 
