2 LLoYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



at least in the female ; colour, except in the Austro-Malayan 

 species, brown, with markings varying from reddish fulvous to 

 pale buff; or blue in some of the Eastern species just men- 

 tioned. Palpi very long, about four times as long as the head. 

 Front legs in male very small, the tarsi reduced to a single 

 joint, without claws ; front legs of the female almost perfectly 

 developed, but considerably smaller than the others. 



Range. — " The twelve or fourteen species of this Sub-family, 

 which it hardly appears necessary to divide into genera, are 

 singularly scattered over all the warmer parts of the globe, 

 except, I believe, the continent of Australia, and Polynesia. 

 The type of the genus, L, celtis (Fuessly), inhabits Southern 

 Europe and Asia Minor ; the Ethiopian region has three 

 species; India and the Indo- Malayan Islands, three; the 

 Austro-Malayan and Australasian Islands, two or three ; two 

 are natives of the United States and the West Indies, and one 

 is found in Surinam and Brazil. It does not seem improb- 

 able that these few and widely-scattered congeners are but the 

 surviving members of what was at some former period a numer- 

 ous and generally prevalent group" {Trinien). The same 

 opinion is expressed by Dr. Scudder, who mentions the 

 discovery of two fossil species in Colorado. 



Habits. — -The species frequent open places ; road-sides, vine- 

 yards, forest- glades, hedge-sides, &c., especially near water, and 

 they have a rather rapid flight. 



We shall notice representatives of three different sections of 

 this small family. 



GENUS LIBYTHEA. 

 Libythea, Fabricius, in Illiger's Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 284 (1807); 

 Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. pp. 10, 170 (1819); Westwood, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 412 (1851); Schatz & Rober, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 226 (1892). 



Type, Papilio celtis^ Fuessly. 



