lo Lloyd's natural history. 



closed; hind-wings with no basal nervure,* and with the 

 sub-costal nervure and upper discoidal nervule rising from a 

 common stalk (except in Simiskina). 



Range. — About a dozen genera are at present admitted as 

 belonging to this Sub-family, but they are not numerous in 

 species, nor have they a very wide range. Of these, Nemeo- 

 bius, Steph., contains the only European species of the Family, 

 the well-known "Duke of Burgundy Fritillary"; another genus, 

 the few species of which likewise have a superficial resemblance 

 to small species of Melitcea, Fabr., is PolyccBua, Stand., which 

 is confined to Thibet and Western China ; and all the other 

 genera are restricted to the Indo-Malayan and Austro-Malayan 

 regions, except that some of the former probably cross the 

 southern frontier of the Palaearctic region, and that the genera 

 allied to Abisara^ Feld., have one or two representatives in Africa 

 and Madagascar, as well as in the East Indies. 



Habits. — Woodland insects, of low flight, preferring to settle 

 on bushes rather than on flowers. Some of the Indian and 

 Chinese species are met with at an elevation of at least 10,000 

 feet in the mountains. 



GENUS NEMEOBIUS. 



Nemeobius^ Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. i. p. 28 (1827); 

 Westwood, Gen. D. Lepid. p. 419 (1851); Schatz & 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 230 (1892). 



Antennae distinctly clubbed ; eyes with short hairs ; palpi 

 slender, pointed ; fore-wings with the costa nearly straight, 

 hardly longer than the hind-wings; hind-margins gradually 

 curved and denticulated. 



There is only one species, which is common in Central and 

 Southern Europe, and is also found in England. 



♦ See Lemoniina. 



