EURYTELIDiE. 211 



Pupa. — Suspended by tail only : head pointed, bifid ; 

 several prominences on back. 



Includes but a few species comprised in four genera, one 

 of which {Biblis, Fab.) is represented in South America, — 

 wliile the others are confined to Africa and xVsia. 



This limited Family, in Doubleday and Westwood's 

 *' Genera," is placed immediately after the Satyrid^ and 

 before the LiBYXHEiDyE, and seems to form a very complete 

 link between these two groups, presenting the basal inflation 

 of the costal nervure of fore- wings so characteristic of the 

 former, and an approach to the strikingly elongated palpi 

 and angulated wings of the latter group.*' The Eurytelid^ 

 are rather dull-coloured butterflies, but our few species are 

 characterised by much elegance and delicacy of marking, 

 especially on the under-surface. Of the two South African 

 Genera, Hypanis is the more brightly-tinted. This Genus 

 would seem to affect open country ; Eurytela I have found 

 in woods. The flight of the latter is of moderate strength, 

 and usually confined to the neighbourhood of some particular 

 bush or tree in a sunny spot. 



Our two Genera, comprising but three species, may be 

 readily distinguished ; Eurytela having angulated fore-wings, 

 while in Hypanis the hind-margin of these wings has no 

 projection. 



Genus EURYTELA. 



Eurytela, Boisd. 

 Biblis (pars), Godt. 



Imago. — Eyes hairy ; antennce with a gradually-formed, 

 slender, laterally flattened, obtuse-ending club. Wings 

 denticulated (rather acutely in hind-wing) : fore-iving angu- 

 lated on lower discoidal nervule, and more slightly so on 

 second median nervule ; groove formed by inner-margins of 

 hind-ivings incomplete, but more developed than in Hypanis. 

 Abdomen rather short. 



The two known South African species are both butterflies 

 of a dark-brown or nearly black colour above, but may at 

 once be distinguished by the diflerence in hue of the pale 

 band which crosses the wings, which is orange-yellow in 

 E. Dryope and pure-white in E. Hiarbas. 



* 1 am not aware that any species of Libythea has hitherto been found 

 in Southern Africa, but it is probable that L, fulgnrata, Boisd., a native of 

 Madagascar, may inhabit the South-Eastern coast, nor is it unlikely that 

 other species may be discovered. 



