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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



Only five genera are included by Captain Watson in this 

 section, which, however, comprises many large and handsome 

 species, including the largest of all known HesperiidcBy Rhopa- 

 locampta iphis (Drury). 



GENUS ISMENE. 



Ismeiie, Swainson, Zool. 111. i. pi. i6 (1S21 ?) ; Westwood, Gen. 



Diurn. Lepid. p. 514 (1852); Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond. 1893, p. 125. 

 A well-known East Indian genus, the type of which is /. cedi- 

 podea, Swainson, from Java and Sumatra. It measures from 

 2 to 2^ inches across the wings, which are brown, with a sub- 

 costal tawny stripe on the Imsal half of the fore-wings, and the 

 hind-wings lobate at the anal angle; the fringes are tawny, espe- 

 cially towards the lobe. In the male, the base of the fore-wings 

 is tawny, followed by a large square black blotch. In the female 

 the hind-wings and the fore-wings also are greenish towards the 

 base. The larva is pale grey, with a lateral yellow stripe ; the 

 head is black and orange. It feeds on Hiptage. The pupa is 

 pale salmon-colour, covered with a thin pearly bloom. 



GENUS RIIOPALOCAMPTA. 



RJiopalocampfa, Wallengren, Lepid. Rhop. Caffr. p. 47 (1857); 

 Watson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 129. 

 The type of this genus (which Captain Watson employs to 

 , include a large number of East Indian and African species) is 

 the following : 



RHOPALOCAMPTA FORESTAN. 



Papilio forestan, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 391, figs. E, F 



(1782). 

 He.speria forest a7i, Trimen, S. African Butterflies, ni. p. 368 



(1889); i. pl.ii. figs. 6, da (transf.) (1887). 



