g Lloyd's natural history, 



falcate, but never with a distinct tail or tooth at the sub- 

 median ; vein 5 never fully developed. . . . AH the 

 species of this group of which there is any record (with the 

 exception of some species of Hesperid) rest with their wings 

 extended flat when in a state of repose, frequently settling on 

 the under side of a leaf. 



This section occurs throughout both the New and the Old 

 Worlds, some of the genera having a very wide range. Most 

 of the New-World forms and a few of the Old-World ones are 

 provided, in the male, with a costal fold on the fore-wing, and 

 never with a discal stigma. A very large number of the genera 

 are also provided in the male with a tuft of long hairs attached 

 to the hind tibi« or to the fore coxae. There are invariably 

 two pairs of spurs on the hind tibi^, and the epiphysis of the 

 fore tibiae is invariably present, with the doubtful exception of 

 some individuals of Abaiitis feitensls, Hopffer, an East African 

 species. ( Watson) 



GENUS PYTIIONIDES. 

 Pythonides, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. pp. no, m (1816). 

 An extensive genus of Tropical American Butterflies, most 

 of the species being of small size, and black, with grey and 

 blue markings. 



PYTHONIDES CRONION. 

 {Plate LX IX, Fig.S-) 

 Ltucochitonea cronion, Felder, Reise d. Novara, Lepid. ili. p. 

 525, no. 924, pi. 74, figs. 23, 24 (1867). 

 This Butterfly measures about i }< inches across the fore- 

 wings, which are brown, dusted with grey. The hind-wings 

 are black, with a broad blue transverse band. It is found in 



Brazil. 



Some of the species of this group are of extremely dull 



