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but the miaaie disco cellular nervule is obsolete. The Butter- 

 flies which belong to it are generally smaller, and much less 

 brightly coloured than the majority of the preceding genera, 

 and many of them are black, with radiating white or bluish- 

 white markings, not unlike those which we meet with in 

 many South American Moths, and also in certain genera of 

 Hespe7Hidie found in the same countries. One genus, Chamce- 

 iinuias, Felder, exhibits a still more remarkable resemblance 

 to the South American Moths of the genus Cyllopoda, Dal- 

 man, having long fore-wings, which are black, with a bright 

 yellow transverse band, and often a yellow basal stripe also, and 

 bright yellow hind-wings, with broad black borders. 



The genus Ithomeis^ Bates {Ithomiopsis^ Felder), includes 

 larger species, measuring about two inches across the wings, 

 which have derived their name from their resemblance to 

 various species of the genus Itkojiiia, Hiibner (see vol. i. 

 p. 30). They are black, with orange-tawny and whitish sub- 

 hyaline markings, and some of the species much resemble those 

 of Stalachtis, Hiibner, {j>ostea, p. 44), which itself much re- 

 sembles the Ithomiince. 



The next section includes the great bulk of tropical Ameri- 

 can Lemoniidce^ and is characterised by having two branches of 

 the sub-costal nervure of the fore-wings thrown off before the 

 end of the cell, and the middle disco-cellular nervule of the 

 hind-wings not emitted before the upper radial. 



In the first sub-section, the palpi do not extend beyond the 

 head, and the antennoe are not ringed or spotted with white. 

 Here again we meet with some tailed species, the handsomest 

 being Eiierycina calphurnia (Saunders) which expands two 

 inches and upwards, and is not unlike some of the species of 

 the genus Tiinetes^ Boisd., among the Nyinphalijue., in general 

 appearance. It is brown, with a white band, edged with light 

 blue in the male, running from the costa of the fore-wings to the 



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