SYNOPSIS OP THE GENERA. XIX 



Fam. V. Nymphalidae. 



Palpi nearly comrivent, porrect, scaly, their anterior face as wide 

 as the sides, discoidal cell nearly always open, nails of tarsi strongly 

 bifid. 



A. Antenna with a flattened club, primaries sinuous. Agraulis. 



primaries not sinuous. Argynnis. 

 Under side of wings without nacred spots. Melitaea. 



B. Club of antennae not flattened ; 



a. Primaries excised, angular, secondaries with a pale, silvery 



or golden mark like the letter L or C. Grapta. 



6. Primaries subtriangular, less excised, apex truncate, palpi 



very hairy. Vanessa. 



c. Primaries less angular, palpi less hairy. Pyrameis. 



d. Eyes naked, anterior legs less hairy. Junonia. 



e. Primaries rounded at the summit, proboscis very long. Anartia. 



f. Primaries dentate, sometimes prolonged to a tail. Nymphalis. 



g. Primaries, fore margin arcuate, angle acute, tail prominent, 



color coppery. Paphia. 



h. Primaries slightly dentate, secondaries with ocelli. Apatura. 

 t. Primaries not dentate, subfalciform no ocelli. Aganisthos. 



Fam. VI. Libytheidae. 



Larva without spines ; palpi very long, contiguous, in the form of 

 a beak, parallel to the axis of the body; wings angular, rather ro- 

 bust ; discoidal cellule of secondaries open. Libythea. 



Fam. VII. Satyridae. 



Wings robust, abdominal edge of the secondaries forming a groove ; 

 discoidal cellule closed ; nervures of the primaries often dilated at 

 their origin. 



Costal nervure feebly inflated at base ; color pale, dull, livid. 



[Extreme north.] Chionobas. 



Veins delicate, color uniform. Neonympha. 



Costal nervure much inflated, color dark brown ; wings ocellate or 



with black spots. Erebia. 



One or two veins of primaries inflated ; limb of secondaries dentate ; 



secondaries marbled beneath ; primaries ocellate. Satyrus. 



Eyes hairy ; base of costal and median nerves of primaries dilated ; 



secondaries lobed. Calisto. 



Costal nervure inflated ; secondaries emarginate, slightly caudate. 



Debis. 

 The three principal nerves inflated, no ocelli. Coenympha. 



