PLATE IX. Fig. 2.
Danais Plexippe, _Godart_.--Pap. Plexippus, _Linn., Fabr._--Pap.
Genutia, _Cramer_, Pl. 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 uniformity of design in the markings. The ground colour is
a rich chestnut-brown, varying considerably in the intensity of the
shade, the wings widely margined 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 appears 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 by
the confluence of five spots; between this and the middle of the costa
is a small group of white spots: all the nervures black and dilated.
The under side differs in having the space between the white patch at
the apex of the upper wings and the external margin ashy-brown; in
having the ground colour of the inferior-wings pale fulvous, and the
nervures of the same wings narrowly edged with white. The abdomen is
nearly of the same colour as the wings; the thorax, breast, and head
black, punctured with white; antennæ black, the extremity of the club
rust-red.