BUTTERFLIES. 155 



Amhlypodia, Horsf., is a genus wliich includes a great number 

 of rather large LyccenidcB, which chiefly inhabit India and the 

 Eastern Islands. They are of different shades of blue, and the 

 under surface is brown, more or less divided into large spots by 

 white lines. There is frequently a green band towards the hind 

 margin of the hind wings beneath. A. Apiclanus, Cram., is a native 

 of Java. 



Eumcpus, Hiibn,, is a small genus of interesting butterflies found 

 in Mexico, Cuba, and Central America. E. Minyas, Hiibn., is black, 

 shaded with greenish blue, and the hind wings are bordered with 

 a row of large golden-green sjiots. The under surface is dark 

 brown, covered with golden-green spots. 



Family IV. — PapUionidce. 



Both sexes with six perfect legs ; larva long, cylindrical, not 

 spiny ; pupa attached by the tail, and a belt of silk round the 

 body. 



Stjb-Family I. — Pierince. 



Inner margin of the hind wings not concave ; larvae clothed 

 with short hair, but with no retractile fork on the second segment. 



The Pierince are insects of moderate size, and white and yellow 

 are the prevailing colours of the upper surface of the wings. 

 Their wings are rarely dentated, and are very rarely tailed, and 

 even then the tail is confined to a slight projection on the hind 

 margin of the hind wings, or a more or less pointed lobe at the 

 anal angle. 



Two or three South American genera at the beginning of this 

 sub-family are very dissimilar from any of the others. The species 

 of Pereute, Herr.-SchafiF., resemble Heliconius. P. Charops, Boisd., 

 from Mexico, is black, with an oblique red or bluish-white stripe 

 across the fore wing. Archonias, Hiibn., includes black species 

 with white or yellow markings, and dentated hind wings, which 

 somewhat resemble certain genera of South American Nymphalince; 

 while Bismorphia, Hiibn., is remarkable for the resemblance which 

 many of its long narrow-winged species bear to Ithomia, and other 

 genera of American Danaince, though others may be distinguished 

 from them at a glance by their broad hind wings. D. Eumelia, 

 Cram., is a black and yellow species, which is very similar indeed to 

 an Ithomia, while IJ. Thermesia, Godt., is a white, black-bordered 

 species that could hardly be mistaken for anything but a Pieride. 



