PLATE IX. Fig. 1.
Danais Limniace, _Godart_.--Pap. Limniace, _Cramer_, Pl. 59, fig. D,
E.--Pap. Similis, _Fabr._
Expands nearly four inches; surface of the wings deep black, entirely
covered with stripes and spots of shining light green, more or less
mixed with white: towards the base of the wings the green colour is
arranged in longitudinal stripes, externally in rounded spots, becoming
smaller at the hinder margin where they form a regular row. The design
on the under side is similar, but the ground colour of the under wings
and a large space at the apex of the upper are pale brown, and the
green marks are usually pale; the sinuosities fringed with white, the
projections on the margin of the hinder wings forming a pretty acute
angle; thorax and breast black, with numerous white points; abdomen
yellowish beneath.
Rather extensively distributed over the eastern countries of Asia, and
the adjacent islands.