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group, but wliich we cxihule, the Leiiioiiiiuiie were ilixided by Bates into 

 three divisions, one of tiiem, liowever, ineluding but a single genus or two. 

 In their recent study of the Central American forms, Messrs. Godman and 

 Salvia have shown excellent reasons for modifying this division of Bates 

 by grouping all the Old \\'orld forms and a few of the New into one 

 division, which they term Nemeobiinae, regarding it as a sid)fami]y, and 

 all the others into another under the name of Erycininae. Tiiis latter 

 di\ision we shall follow in the statements we have now to make. 



In the first of these groups, which we should prefer to call a tribe, Ne- 

 meobiidi, we have some notices of the transformations of at least four genera, 

 the Eiiropeaji and Asiatic species mentioned being two of them, while with 

 one exception the sj)ecies figured by Stoll' are referable to the other two. 

 To take these up in serial order, we have first the European species of the 

 genus Nemeobius, N. lucina. Of this, all that we are told of the egg is 

 that it is almost globular, smooth, shining and pale green. Of the eai'ly 

 stages of the caterpillar absolutely nothing has been published : but the 

 mature larva has very nuich the form ordinarily familiar to us in the L_y- 

 caeninae, excepting that it is more elongated and has a larger head ; so 

 far as can be judged from blown specimens, there is no such substigmatal 

 fold as is seen conspicuously in most of the Lycaeninae, nor any dorsal 

 crest, but a cross section of the body would seem to be best described as a 

 flattened cylinder. The head, indeed, is clothed with long and rather 

 coarse hairs nearly to the summit, and the membrane connecting tlie skull 

 witii tlie harder part of the first thoracic segment is considerably shorter 

 than the head, showing that it can be withdrawn within the first thoracic 

 segment or covered by its integument to but a very slight degree ; the 

 skull has, however, no downward deriection at its posterior edge, which is 

 strongly emarginate in the middle, as in the head of the Lycaeninae. The 

 body is clothed with very fine, short and downy hairs, and also with some 

 coarse, spiculiferous bristles supported l)y small papillae, which are slightly 

 clustered in transverse rows across the middle of the segments, and are 

 accompanied by irregularly scattered, ehitinous annuli of the same size as 

 the papillae in their immediate vicinity ; the first thoracic segment hag a 

 dorsal shield of distinct but not very pronounced character ; the spiracles 

 are very small, those on the seventh and eighth abdominal segments on a 

 line with the rest ; the legs and prolegs are moderately short . The 

 caterpillar is said to live "tres cachee." The chrysalis has a form which 

 diflfers from the type of the Lycaeninae in scarcely anything, excepting the 

 posterior termination of the abdomen. The prothorax is very large ; the 

 head is completelj^ ventral ; the general form of the body is a little more 

 elongated than in most Lycaeninae ; the metanotum is pretty large, but 

 the abdomen tapers posteriorly with considerable regularity to a point, this 

 point being the cremaster, which is triangular, its sides continuing the 



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