CHAPTER III


 FAMILY DANAIDIE
 SUB-FAMILY Danaidae
Genus :
I. DANAIS BERENICE (Cram).
 An extremely common butterfly frequenting
open sunny meadowlands where its food plant-
a milk weed with red flowers-grows abundantly.
It is a sun lover and may be met with in the
hottest sunshine flying around its food plant and
settling on the flowers.
 It flies in company with D. cleothera (Godart)
and is met with all the year round and throughout
the Colony.
 I have noticed great variation in the expanse of
the wings in this species, and although the females
are usually larger than the males, yet some of them
are smaller, while some of the males are veritable
dwarfs.
 The larvae is commonly found on milk weed.

2. DANAIS STRIGOSA (Bates).
 This is a sub-species of D. berenice, is found in
the same localities, and is equally common.
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