ANTEROS. 



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tant is Lymnas, Blanchard, which includes about thirty species 

 of moderate-sized Butterflies, not generally expanding more 

 than an inch and a half across the wings, which are brown, 

 generally with large red spots on the under side, and with an 

 orange or yellow border to the hind-wings, and an oblique bar 

 across the fore-wings. Sometimes the oblique bar is replaced 

 by an orange tip to the fore-wings ; or there are no yellow 

 markings, but only large red spots towards the base, or perhaps 

 a red bar on the costa of the hind-wings. 



The next sub-section only differs from the last in having the 

 antennae ringed or spotted with white. It includes a variety of 

 small and moderate-sized Butterflies. As an illustration of this 

 group we have figured a representative of the following genus. 



GENUS ANTEROS. 

 Anteros, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816); Westwood, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 427 (1851); Schatz & Rober, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 349 (1892). 

 In this genus there is a conspicuous tuft of hair on the first 

 joint of the tarsi of the four hinder legs, more strongly developed 

 in the male than in the female. The hind-wings are generally 

 produced into a short obtuse tooth, and have also a short broad 

 tuft of hair at the anal angle. In some species the hind-wings 

 are produced into several tails, somewhat as in Helicopis (with 

 which genus they were formerly classed by some authors), but 

 shorter. The hind-wings are frequently adorned with metallic 

 silvery or golden spots and stripes. 

 The type is 



ANTEROS FORMOSUS. 



Papilioformosus^ Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 118, fig. G (1777). 

 Papilio cnesus^ Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 117, no. 122 (1781). 



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