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cases sufficiently well-deQned, and tliere are some isolated 

 forms, such as Abisara gerontes (Fabricius), from West Africa (a 

 brown wliite-banded Butterfly, with tails, and with one or two 

 ocellated spots, a very unusual character in this Family), for 

 which new generic names are certainly required. But the domain 

 of entomology is very extensive, and it would be a great mistake 

 to imagine that it is anything like worked-out at present, even 

 in the case of insects so much studied and sought after as 

 Butterflies. The number of new and beautiful forms which 

 are discovered every year in almost all parts of the world 

 would alone dispel any such an idea. 



The genus Siniiskifia, Distant, which is distinguished from 

 all the other NemeobiiiKZ by the three-branched sub-costal 

 nervure, is placed by Schatz and Rober in the Eryci7iidce with 

 considerable hesitation. It includes only two brown and 

 tawny species from Malacca, measuring about an inch and a 

 half across the wings. The hind-margin of the hind-wings 

 projects at an angle considerably further from the anal angle 

 than in Abisara^ &c. ; the under side of iill the wings is brown 

 with darker lines, or yellowish-tawny with reddish lines. One 

 of the species was referred by Hewitson to the Lycoenid genus 

 Poritia^ Moore, and the other was regarded by Distant as the 

 type of a new genus of Eryciiiidce. 



SUB-FAMILY II. EUSELASIIN^. 

 Egg. — Undescribed. 



Larva. — Onisciform or cylindrical, clothed with a dense pile, 

 as well as with longer hairs. 



Pupa. — Long or short, pilose or hairy. 



Imago. — Wings broad, rather short; fore-wings with the 



