FAMILY II. LEMONIIDjE 
SUBFAMILY ERYCININ/E (THE METAL-MARKS) 
“ I wonder what it is that baby dreams. 
Do memories haunt him of some glad place 
Butterfly-haunted, halcyon with flowers, 
Where once, before he found this earth of ours, 
He walked with glory filling his sweet face?” 
Edgar Fawcett. 
butterfly.— Small, the males having four ambulatory feet, 
the females six, in which respect they resemble the Libytheinae, 
from which they may readily be distinguished by the small palpi. 
There is great variety in the shape and neuration of the wings. 
The genera of this subfamily have the precostal vein on the ex¬ 
treme inner margin of the wing; in some genera free at its end, 
and projecting so as to form a short frenulum, as in many gen¬ 
era of the moths. In addition the costal vein sends up a branch 
at the point from which the precostal is usually emitted. This 
apparent doubling of the precostal is found in no other group of 
butterflies, and is a strong diacritical mark by which they may 
be recognized. They are said to carry their 
wings expanded when at rest, and frequently 
alight on the under surface of leaves, in this 
respect somewhat approaching in their habit 
the pyralid moths. Many of the species are 
most gorgeously colored; but those which are 
found within our region are for the most part 
not gaily marked. They may be distinguished 
from the Lycaenidae not only by the peculiar neu¬ 
ration and manner of carrying the wings, but by 
the relatively longer and more slender antennae. 
Early Stages. — Comparatively little is known of these, though 
in certain respects the larvae and the chrysalis show a relationship 
228 
Fig. 125. — Neura¬ 
tion of base of hind 
wing of the genus L.c- 
monias: PC, precostal 
vein ; PC', second 
precostal vein. 
