Ochsenheimer's Genera of the Lepidoptera of Europe. 283 



Wings, dentated, the anterior somewhat repand * ; upper sur- 

 face black, or blueish-green ; under surface reddish- 

 brown, or cinnamon colour ; body griseous. 



Antenna clavate. 



Larva variegated ; head with two elevated points ; body with 

 two longitudinal rows of ramose spines. 



Pupa variously suspended ; head with two small elevations ; 

 the dorsal larger, securiform. 



Species. Icon. 



1. L. Aceris, Fab Ernst, I. PI. II. Suppl. III. f. 



12. a—d. bis. 



2. — Lucilla, Fab Ernst, I. PI. X. f. 12. a. b. 



3. — Sibylla, Linn Ernst, I. PI. XI. f. 13. a— f. 



4. — Camilla, Fab Ernst, I. PI. XL f. 14. a. b. 



5. — Populi, Linn Ernst, I. PI. IX. f. 10. a—d. 



Genus 6. CHARAXES, Ochs. 



Paphia, Fab. Nymphalis, Latr. 



Legs, first pair imperfect. 



Wings, anterior elongated, angular; posterior dentate, the 



external margin bicaudate near the apex. 

 Antenna? clavate. 

 Larva smooth ; head with four horns ; body bicuspidate at 



the anal extremity. 

 Pupa, nearly oval. 



Species. Icon. 



1. C. Jasius, Linn. Drury, Illustr. of Nat Hist. I. 



PL I. f. 1. 

 f Only one European species. 



Genus 7. APATURA, Fab. 



Nymphalis, Latr. Maniola, Schrank. 



Argus, Scop. Potamides, Hiibn. 



Legs, first pair imperfect. 



Wings, somewhat repand, and dentate; colour changeable 



according to the direction of the light, between brown and 



purple ; posterior wings ocellated at the interior angle. 

 Antennae clavate, knob sub-cylindrical, and rather slender. 

 Larva similar to that of Char axes; but with faint yellow 



transverse bands : head smooth anteriorly, with two long, 



straight, obtuse, or bipartite horns. 



* Ausgeschweift, repandus, repand: cut into very slight sinuations, so 

 as to run in a serpentine direction. — Kirby and Spence, iv. 297. 



2 O 2 Pupa 



