150 LEPIDOPTERA. 



With the exception of one or two South American Nymphalidce 

 allied to Eunica, no other butterflies resemble the genus Libythea, 

 Fabr., in the extraordinary development of the palpi. The species 

 are of small size, seldom measuring as much as two inches across 

 the wings. They are all very similar, being brown, with fulvous 

 markings, and, though not numerous in species, yet representatives 

 of the genus are met with in South Europe, the East Indies, West 

 Africa, Mauritius, North and South America, the West Indies, and 

 the Moluccan and Papuan Islands. Those found in the Papuan 

 Islands are larger than the others, with less strongly angulated 

 wings, and difter also in coloration, being brown or blue. 



Sub-Family II. — Nemeobiince. 



Palpi of moderate length ; subcostal nervure with four branches. 



Mr. H. W. Bates has divided the Erydnldce of authors into 

 three sub-families by the neuration. These butterflies are almost 

 entirely confined to tropical America, a few genera and species 

 only occurring in Africa and the East Indies, and only one in 

 Europe. Even in temperate North America very few species are 

 met with, and those chiefly in California and the adjacent Western 

 States. 



Nemeobius Lucina, Linn, (the Duke of Burgundy Fritillary), is 

 a somewhat local species in England, though not uncommon 

 throughout the greater part of Europe. It measures about an 

 inch in expanse, and is brown, with rows of dull orange spots, 

 which give the fore wings the appearance of being tessellated. It 

 derives its English name from its general resemblance to the 

 species of Melitcea. 



Zemeros Flegyas, Cram., is a common East Indian species, 

 measuring about an inch and a half across the wings, which are 

 slightly dentated. It is brown, covered with irregular black 

 spots, marked with white. 



In some species the hind wings are so strongly dentated as to 

 be slightly tailed. Abisara Tepahi, Boisd., may be taken as an 

 example. It is brown, with numerous white lines on the under 

 surface, and is a native of Madagascar. 



The largest of the Nemcohiinm belong to the genus Eurybia, 

 Hiibn. They expand about two inches, and are of a light browji, 

 sometimes glossed with violet, with a large blue eye surrounded 

 with tawny, near the middle of the fore wings, and a row of white, 



