44 LLOYD'S NATURAL HlSTORV. 



This is an inconspicuous little South American Butterfly, 

 measuring about an inch across the wmgs, which are brown, 

 with a broad fulvous bar running obliquely from the middle of 

 the costa of the fore-wings to the hind-margin, a little above the 

 hinder angle. On the under side of the wings a yellow band 

 runs just beyond the base, from the costa of the fore-wings to 

 the rounded-off anal angle of the hind-wings. 



/. hera, Godman and Salvin, from Guatemala, is purplish- 

 black above, with longer wings ; and the basal band on the 

 under surface is fulvous instead of yellow. 



SUB-FAMILY IV. STALACHTIN^. 

 The upper radial of the hind-wings branches beyond the 

 middle disco-cellular nervule, thus rising from a common stalk 

 with the sub-costal. The lower disco-cellular nervule runs 

 into the upper median nervule. The palpi project beyond 

 the head, and the antennce are not ringed with white. The 

 larva is cylindrical, and the pupa is suspended by the tail, but 

 otherwise much resembles that of Nemeobius. There is but 

 one genus, containing less than twenty species, all Tropical 

 American. 



GENUS STALACIITIS. 

 Stahiililis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. pp. 26, 27 (181 6); 



Wcstwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 466 (1851); Schatz & 



Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 258 (1892). 

 The species of this genus are rather large Butterflies for 

 Lenwftiidce, expanding from two to three inches. They have long 

 rounded wings, and are redJish-tawny or orange, with black 

 markings and white spots, or are black, sometimes flushed 

 wnth purple, and streaked or spotted with hyaline-white or 

 bluish-white, and with orange sub-marginal markings. Some 

 of the species resemble Itho/niince among the Butterflies, but 



