LEMONIAS I. 



Libythea, forming a separate group allied to the Erycinidoe/ by the anterior pair 

 of legs in the males being aborted, without tarsal joints or trace of claws and 

 spines, the same legs in the females being of normal structure." Also: "The 

 metamorphoses are variable, some genera resembling the Nymphalid«, in the 

 chrysalis being suspended by the tail, and others the Lyccenidaj, in being recum- 

 bent and girt with silken threads. Too little is known of the caterpillai-s to en- 

 able us to say whether they oft'er any peculiarity." Nearly all the species are 

 found in America. Again quoting Mr. Bates : "■ The family appears to be most 

 numerous and flourishing in the equatorial zone, diminishing in the number of 

 its representatives as one approaches either tropic, and with very few exceptions 

 the species are confined to the shades of the great forest which covers the lower 

 levels of nearly the whole of this vast I'egion. I collected myself 370 species on 

 the banks of the Amazon." " A large number of genera have the habit of set- 

 tling on the under side of leaves near the ground, extending their wings flat on 

 the leaf. In many genera, on the contrary, the position of the wings in repose 

 is vertical, and a few species settle on the upper surface of leaves with the wings 

 half elevated." " Very few species frequent flowers." 



In my Catalogue, 1877, are enumerated eight species of Erycinidse, to which 

 JVals should have been added. And recently two other species, Ar'es Edw. 

 and Cleis Edw., have been described as of our fauna from the Morrison collections 

 of 1882. 



' By some authors, Libythea is regarded as an aberrant group of the Nymphalida;. 



