TIIK SUBFAMILY EUPLOKINAE. 



SUBFAMILY EUPLOEINAE. 



Danai festivi Linn.; Festivi Fabr.; Fostiva Danaides Hoi>itl.; Danaitfs Bl:)udi.-Brull6; 



Grav. Danaidac Dup.; Danainae Bates; Danaina 



Ti-ihuni ncr])st. Ilerr.-Schacfr. ; Daiiaideii + Ncotropiden 



Liiiinades lliibncr. Schaatz. 



Ilelicoiiidac (pars) Swains.; Helicoiiiidao P'liplooinae Moore. 



(pars) Westw. Idea Kocli. 



With soft 

 And aimless flutter, painted Initterflies 

 Hung drifting here and there like floating leaves, 

 Or rested on a weed to spread their wings. 



8T0KY. —Ginevra da Siena. 



Imago. Butterflies of large size. Head large; front swollen a little, protuberant 

 beneath. Antennae inserted on the summit, not in a pit, consisting of from forty to 

 forty-flve joints, moderately stout, naked, nearly as long as the abdomen, the club 

 pretty long and not very broad, drooping; palpi stout, tufted with hairs, mostly ar- 

 ranged in a vertical plane. 



Thorax stout, rather compressed, upper surface greatly and pretty uniformly 

 vaulted ; anterior sides of the mesoscutellum considerably hollowed, only their interior 

 inner halves projecting into the mesoscutum and forming thereby much less than 

 a right angle; posterior border of mesoscutellum strongly curved, forming almost a 

 rounded right angle. Metascutellum inconspicuous, formed of a triangular piece,, 

 mostly facing backward, not greatly broader than high, appearing above as crowded 

 between the metascuta and as broad only as one-quarter the width between the pos- 

 terior angles of the mesoscutum ; metascuta well developed, tumid. 



Fore wings greatly produced at the upper outer angle and generally more or less 

 excised along the middle of the outer border, the tip rounded and the outer border 

 never angulated, except, occasionally, in a very slight degree. Costal nervure termi- 

 nating a little beyond the middle of the front border ; subcostal nervules varying in 

 their origin ; usually at least one of the superior nervules is emitted before the tip of 

 the cell ; the inferior nervxiles arise much as in the previous sub-family ; cell at least 

 half, and usually more than half the length of the wing, closed completely ; first branch 

 of the median nervure sometimes arising at the middle, but usually at some distance 

 beyond the middle of the cell ; last branch curving at its base pretty strongly, often 

 abruptly, toward the subcostal nervules; internal nervure, when present, very slender 

 and running into the submedian nervure close to the base. 



Hind Avings rounded, much smaller than the fore wings, the disparity in length being 

 greater than in any other subfamily ; margin regular, tailless, the inner margin sometimes 

 guttered. Costal nervure terminating, generally, near the middle of the costal border 

 but sometimes reaching the outer angle ; lower subcostal nervule curving toward the 

 median; cell closed by a strong vein, which connects the curving portion of the last 

 subcostal nervule with a similar portion of the last median nervule, and has a variable 

 direction ; median nervules nearly equidistant ; the first one generally arising beyond 

 the middle of the cell; last branch curving strongly or bent to i-eceive the veinlet 

 closing the cell ; submedian nervure usually terminating at the outer border, some- 

 times at the anal angle ; internal nerAiire usually terminating at the anal angle. 



Fore legs greatly atrophied in the male, less so in the female ; in the former, the 

 tarsi consist of a nearly undivided joint, unarmed; in the female the tarsus ends abrupt- 

 ly but consists of several, though not the normal number of joints, each furnished 

 at tip beneath with a pair of short spurs ; claws wanting; on the other legs the claws 

 are very large and long, not falciform, and both paronychia and pulvilli are absent. 



The eighth abdominal segment of the male is prolonged at the sides so as to resem- 



