Genus Timetes 
Early Stages. —Unknown. 
The Leopard-spot is found occasionally in Florida, but quite 
ommonly in the Antilles, Mexico, and Central America. 
Genus TIMETES, Boisduval 
(The Dagger-wings) 
Butterfly .—The palpi are moderately long, thickly clothed with 
scales, the last joint elongated and pointed. The antennae have a 
well-developed club. The fore wings and the hind wings have 
the cell open. In the fore wing the sub¬ 
costal vein, which has five branches, 
emits the first nervule well before the 
end of the cell, th$ second a little be¬ 
yond it, and the third and fourth near 
together, before the apex of the wing. 
The third median nervule of the hind 
wing is greatly produced and forms the 
support of the long tail which adorns 
this wing. Between the end of the sub¬ 
median vein and the first median nervule 
is another lobe-like prolongation of the 
outer margin of the wing. The butter¬ 
flies are characterized for the most part 
by dark upper surfaces, with light under 
surfaces marked with broad bands and 
lines of varying intensity of color. They 
are easily distinguished from the butter¬ 
flies of all other genera of the Nymphalidae by the remarkable 
tail-like appendage of the hind wing, giving them somewhat the 
appearance of miniature Papilionidse. 
Early Stages .—Nothing of note has been recorded of their 
early stages which may be accepted as reliable, and there is an 
opportunity here for study and research. 
There are about twenty-five species belonging to the genus, 
all found within the tropical regions of America. Four species 
are occasionally taken in the extreme southern portions of Florida 
and Texas. They are all, however, very common in the An¬ 
tilles, Mexico, and more southern lands. 
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Fig. 104. —Neuration of the 
genus Timetes. 
