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such as 7. peleus, have a very broken external margin; in others the curves are quite 
simple, as in the type, 7. merops. 
In Timetes merops the subcostal nervure of the primaries emits the first branch before 
the end of the cell, the second some way beyond it. There is no upper discocellular, 
and the middle discocellular is short and curves into the lower radial; of the lower 
discocellular there is no trace. In 7. harmonia and T. peleus there is a short upper 
discocellular in a line with the lower radial, the middle and lower discocellulars being 
absent. The front legs of 7. merops have a rather slender coxa, >4 femur-+trochanter ; 
tibia nearly=femur ; tarsus (single-jointed)=+ tibia; eyes smooth; antenne with 33 
joints, whereof 11 form a moderate club. The terminal joint of the palpi >4% the 
middle joint, which is slightly swollen towards the distal end. The male secondary 
sexual organs vary considerably in different species; but all have a common character 
in that the penis is much curved, and a short chitinous piece meets it in the middle of 
the curve, the other end of which rests at or near the hinge of the harpagones. In 
the majority of the species this is a simple rod; but in 7. berania and T. harmonia it 
has a long projection directed forwards, which runs parallel to the penis itself. In 
T. corinna the lower end expands into a flat triangular piece. The harpagones have a 
common character in being more or less rounded at the end, without hooks or pro- 
jections : the inner surface presents great diversity ; the simplest form is in 7. harmonia 
and 7’. berania, in which there is a patch of closely-set scales near the middle. In all 
the other species (except 7. coresia) there appears to be a transverse fold on which, in 
the majority of species, is a patch of papille. In 7. merops and T. chiron the lower 
edge of the harpagones is turned inwards, and in the former the edge itself is serrated. 
The tegumen in most species of Timetes is a simple elongated spine; but in 7. merops 
there is a short lateral projection on each side. 
The variation that exists in these organs, so far as we have been able to examine 
them, is very considerable ; but with our present knowledge of them it is unadvisable 
to employ them in our classification. How far they will influence any future system 
remains to be seen. 
a. Primaries elongated and strongly but bluntly falcate ; anal lobe of the secondaries 
very prominent. 
1. Timetes peleus. 
Papilio peleus, Sulz. Gesch. Ins. t. 13. f. 4°; Cr. Pap. Ex. t. 87. f. D, E’. 
Timetes petreus, Bates, Journ. Ent. p. 327°. 
Megalura peleus, Butl. & Druce, P. Z. 8S. 1874, p. 345%. 
Alis anticis elongatis valde hamatis, vena radiali superiore producta, margine externo valde sinuoso, posticis 
vena mediana elongata angulo anali quoque producta; supra fulvis lineis duabus transversis aliisque 
cellulam anticarum transeuntibus nigro-fuscis, posticis cauda elongata et angulo anali fuscis, hoc ocellos 
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