ERYCINIDAE. 



Butterflies of this family, (Lemoniidae Kirby, Riodinidae, Grote, Nemeo- 

 bidae, Bingham) with one exception, are rare in Java, and as they do not 

 occur in the districts where I have lived, I have only been able to study their 

 habits in a few cases, and this only in the more common species. 



On the authority of Bates it is generally accepted as a fact that the 

 pupae of the Erycinidae belong partly to the suspcnsae of Boisduval, partly to 

 the sticcindae. In particular those of the American genera Emenis and Stalachtis 

 are supposed to hang by the end, free, without any girdle-thread. I doubt 

 the accuracy of this as regards the pupa of a Surinam Stalachtis species, 

 described by Sepp, 200 years ago, in his work on " S^irinaamsche insecteii" 

 {HI, table 183). He states distinctly that it is attached by means of a girdle- 

 thread ; unfortunately this cannot be seen in his illustration, although in the 

 original drawing, which I was enabled to consult, it is actually represented. 

 The first time that I saw the pupa of Zemeros Flegyas Cram. I also thought 

 that there was no girdle-thread ; subsequently I discovered that there is a thread, 

 but that it is so extremely delicate, that it may easily be overlooked. This 

 may be the case with other pupae of Erycinidae, so that the girdle-threads of 

 the species referred to above, may have escaped Bates. 



Genus DODONA HEW. 



I . Aponata Semp. (Plate XIX, i a, b). 



Semper, Schmett, d. Phil. I, p. i^ta. Jig. (9) (1886 — 92) Dodona Aponata. 

 Fruhstorfer, Eni. Nachrichten, 20, 5". 22 (1894). . . „ Windu. 



„ Berl. Eni. Zeiisch. 39, 5. 241, Taf. 22 (1894) „ „ 



„ (SErrz, Groszschm. d. Erde), S. 777, plate 



139 ? (1914) 



„ (Seitz, Groszschm. d. Erde), S. 776, //. 



140 c? (1914) „ Chrysapha. 



