40 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



GENUS NYMPHIDIUM. 

 Nymphidium^ Fabricius, in Iliiger, Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 286 



1807); Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 447 (1851); 



Godman and Salvin, Biol. Centrali-Americana, Lepid. 



Rhop. i. p. 470 (1886); Schatz & Rober, Lepid„ Exot. 



ii. p. 254 (1892). 

 This is a very large genus, comprising nearly 100 species, 

 which will, no doubt, be sub divided sooner or later. They 

 are stouter insects than Lemo?nas, with longer and more pointed 

 fore-wings, and the hind-wings sometimes produced, and oc- 

 casionally even lobate, at the anal angle. The colour, how- 

 ever, is very different and characteristic, usually consisting of a 

 broad white or yellow band, commencing on the inner-margin 

 of the hind- wings, and occupying more or less of the centre of 

 the wings, till, towards the middle or apex of the fore-wings it 

 tapers and ceases. The borders are brown, often spotted with 

 white and orange-tawny. Of course there are variations in the 

 arrangement of the colours, but this is a fair sketch of the 

 most characteristic pattern. One or two of the larger species 

 are remarkably like some species of the genus Adelpha in 

 the Nyinphaliiioi^ the size, markings, and pattern being almost 

 identical. In other cases, chiefly among the smaller species, 

 the pale colour occupies almost the whole of the wings, except 

 a narrow border. 



The type of the genus is 



NYMPHIDIUM CARIC/E. 



Papilio cariccB, Linnceus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 484, no. 158 

 (1758), id. Mus. Ludov. Ulr. p. 324 (1764); Clerck, 

 Icones, pi. 20, fig. 2 (1764); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 

 170, fig. E (1777); Sepp, Pap. Surinam, iii. p. 145, 

 pi III (1852). 



Limnas suhtilis cariccE, Hiibner, Sammlung Exot. Schmett. i. 

 pi. 30 (1805?). 



