14:6 LEPIDOPTERA. 



expand two inches, or ovei, and are remai'kable for having a long- 

 tail on the hind wings, similar to that found in many species of 

 Tapilio. 



Victorina Steneles, Linn., is a common South American butterfly, 

 much resembling Cokenis Dido at first sight, but with shorter and 

 broader wings. It is brown, with a broad greenish band, entire 

 on the hind wings, and broken into spots on the fore wings. There 

 is an outer row of green sj)ots, and the anal angle of the hind 

 wings is marked with a red or orange spot. 



On quitting South American insects, we arrive first at the 

 genus Cyrestis, Boisd. The species are allied to Megalura, but are 

 smaller, much more delicately formed, and with shorter tails; they are 

 generally white or tawny, and, except two African species, they are 

 all East Indian. C. Thyodamas, Boisd., is a native of North India. 



The genera Hypolimnas, Hiibn., Fseudacrcea, Westw., and some 

 of their allies, are remarkable for the singular resemblance of many 

 of the species included in them to sjiecies of Danaus, Euplcea, and 

 Acrcea. The most remarkable of these is Hypolimnas Misippus, 

 Linn., a common species in Africa and the East Indies, as well as 

 on the north coast of South America, where it has doubtless been 

 introduced, as no other species of the group is known to occur in 

 America. It measures about three inches in expanse, and the 

 male is black, with slightly dentated wings. On each wing is a 

 large bluish-white spot, and there is a smaller white spot near the 

 tip of the fore wings. But the female is a tawny insect, marked 

 almost exactly like Danaus Chrysippus, except that the hind wings 

 are rather more dentated, and that there is only one black spot in 

 the middle, instead of three or four. 



The African species oi Hypolimnas oxe very handsome; H. Sal- 

 mans, Drury, not an uncommon species, is black, blue, and white, 

 and considerably larger than II. Misippus. 



Adelpha, Hiibn., is a genus Avhich replaces Limenitis in tropical 

 America, extending as far north as California. They are middle- 

 sized dark-brown butterflies, with a white or pale-greenish band 

 running from the middle of the fore wings to the inner margin of 

 the hind wings, and there is an orange mark, varying in size and 

 shape in different species, towaixls the tip of the fore wings. This 

 is the general coloration, but there are exceptions. Some species 

 have a large round or oval Avhite spot in the middle of the hind 

 wings, instead of a band ; and others are brown, with the greater 

 part of the fore wings filled up with red or tawny. 



