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would seem as if in tlie Ncincohiidi tlic eggs might be characterized by 

 being nearly smootli witli shglit reticulation ; the caterpillars as densely 

 clothed with pile, conspicuously so in certain definite regions, especially at 

 the two extremities of" the l)ody ; and the chrvsalids would appear to be 

 always girt round the middle ; while on the other hand in the Lemoniidi, 

 as far as we yet know, the eggs are deeply reticulate and filamentous, the 

 caterpillars are provided with fascicles of hairs definitely arranged in 

 longitudinal series along the body, giving them the appearance, as Bar 

 expresses it, of a Liparis ; while the chrysalis is usually not girt around 

 tiie mi<ldle, but supported stifHy by the tail alone, the only exception thus 

 far known being in the species of Chrysobia figured by Edwards. 



The food plants of several of the Nemeobiidi are known and they are 

 very various, belonging to all the main divisions of exogenous plants 

 excepting the gymnosperms. Nemeobius feeds on Eumex (Polygonia- 

 ceae) and perhaps Prinuila (Primulaceae) ; Abisara on Ardisia (jNIyrsi- 

 neaceae) ; Helicopis endymion on Passifiorae and H. cupido on Kutaceae. 

 Of the Lemoniidi we know the food plant of Lemoniasonly, which is Pro- 

 sopis (Leguminosae). The Ciamopetalac seem to be the favorites. 



CALEPHELIS GROTE AND ROBINSON. 



Calephelis Grote-Rob., Trans. Am. eiit. soc, ii : 310 (18C9). 



Type. — Papilio caeneus Linn. 



.Ja, ja, wir sind im Hinmiel, susses Lieb, 

 Siehst du die Bluiiieii, die dort unten spieleii, 

 Die Schmetterlinge, die dazwisohen flattern, 

 Und, neckeiid, biinteii Diamentenstaub 

 Den armeii Bliindein in die Augen werfen? 



Heine. — Almansor. 



. . . every thing that grows 

 Holds in perfection but a little moment. 



Shakespeare.— (SonjteJ. 



Imago (54:7). Heart quite small, densely tufted with a nearly uniform pile of 

 rather short, curving hairs. Front a little full, especially below, where it is slightly 

 protuberant and surpasses the front of the eyes, while in the other parts it only equals 

 them ; scarcely half as high again as broad, fully as broad as the eyes on a front \'lew, 

 the sides slightly approaching each other below ; upper border well curved in front of 

 the antennae, its edge a little rounded off, in the middle projecting strongly and nar- 

 rowly between the antennal pits, where it is not arched transversely ; lower border 

 broadly and fully rounded ; from the middle of a line drawn between the upper pos- 

 terior angles of the eyes, a moderately deep sulcation runs to each antenna, separat- 

 ing the otherwise scarcely elevated centre of the vertex from the slight tuberculous 

 swellings behind each antenna, which in their turn are separated by deeper sulcations 

 from the margin of the eye ; the central sulcations cross eacli other, passing a little 

 behind a line connecting the eyes, and, by their union, forming a sort of pit. Eyes 

 neither large nor full, naked. Antennae inserted with the posterior portion of their 

 base in the middle of the summit, in distinct pits, separated by a slight but perfectly 

 marked wall, not more than equalling the diameter of tlie stalk ; nearly half as long 



