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genus Terinos, which is East Indian, there is no other genus included 

 in the Nymphalince propei-, whicli presents a like phenomenon. On 

 the other hand the males of many genera included in the Satyrince 

 are furnished with patches and tufts of long hair-like scales. These 

 a])pendages are doubtless sexual. 



Liacliiioptera L.aoclice, Cram. pl. ix, fig. 2, Dimorphic 9 • 



Papilio Laodlce, Cram, (nee Pallas) Pap. Exot. II, t. 157, E. F. -^ (1779 j. 



Papilio lole, Fabr. Spec. Ins. II, p. 78, No. 348 (1781). 



Issoria Anticlia, Hiibn. Verz. Bek. Scbmett. p. .31 (1816). 



Argynnis lole, Godt. Enc. Meth. ix, p. 260 (1819). 



Lachnoptera lole, Doubl.-Hew. Gen. D. L. p. 161, t. xxii, fij;. 2 1 (1848). 



Lnchnoptera Laodice, Butl. Cat. Fabr. Diurn. Lep. p. 116 (1869). 



Lachnoptera lole, Staudinger, Exot. Scbmett. p. 89, PI. 35, % (1885). 



Fp:male. — Topical forrn.^ Wings somewhat broader, and less 

 acute at the apex, than in the male. A small caruncula or ridge 

 upon upper surface of posteriors at the end of the cell. This is 

 found in all females, never in males. The basal area of the upper 

 surface of both primaries and secondaries is dark fulvous, the outer 

 half of the wings light fulvous, the division between the darker and 

 lighter areas being marked by an irregularly waved and toothed 

 line of dark fuscous, heaviest upon the costal margin of the })rima- 

 ries. The end of the cell of the primaries is also indicated by a line 

 of fuscous. The purplish iridescence discernible in certain lights 

 upon the wings of the male is lacking in the female. A row of six 

 sagittate black spots, one for each intra-neural space extends across 

 the primaries about one-fourth of the distance from the margin. 

 This band of sagittate marks is continued on the secondaries parallel 



* Mr. Doubleday at the time of the publication of the " Genera of Diurnal 

 Lepidoptera" did not know the female, though acquainted with the male by nu- 

 merous examples. Mr. A. G. Butler tells us in his "Catalogue of the Fabrician 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera" that the types of both the male and the female of this 

 species " agreeing in the fulvous ground-color of the wings" are contained in the 

 British Museum as part of the Banksian Collection, and calls attention to a white 

 form of the female from Gaboon " which mimics Harma Althea." Mr. Trimen 

 in the "Transactions of the Ent. Soc. of London," vol. xxvii, p. 328, incidentally 

 alludes to " the butterfly which the late Mr. Hewitson referred (I believe rightly) 

 to the female sex of lole, which I noted as 'fuscous; all the outer area of the 

 wings dull white, with the spots and streaks strongly and blackly marked ; mark- 

 ings of the under surface agreeing with those of lole % '." These are the only 

 references I find to the female of this interesting species after an exhaustive 

 search of the entire literature of the subject, and I have been, therefore, embold- 

 ened to give a full description of the two forms of the female, of which several 

 examples have come into my possession. 



