LYC/ENID.^. 



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are rather stouter and broader-winged insects, while others re- 

 semble large Dioptidce, among the Moths. The type is S. phlegia 

 (Cramer), a black Butterfly, with numerous white spots; it is 

 broadly reddish towards the base, and there is also a reddish 

 and incomplete sub-marginal band. The body is dotted with 

 white. The wings are shorter in this species than in others of 

 the genus. 



FAMILY IV, LYC^NID^. 



Egg.— Thick-shelled, echinoid or semi-echinoid, studded 

 with connected elevations, or punctuated, occasionally almost 

 smooth. 



Larvae. — Onisciform, thickest in the middle, sometimes 

 downy, or with short fascicles of hairs ; head small, retractile ; 

 legs also small ; habits sluggish ; sometimes carnivorous or 

 cannibal. 



Pupa.— Short, thick, rounded, very rarely slightly angulated, 

 the head and usually the terminal segment on the under sur- 

 face of the body. Usually attached by the tail, and by a belt 

 round the body ; rarely free, and found on or under the surf.ice 

 of the ground. 



Imago. — Of small or moderate size, and often of delicate 

 structure; wings densely scaled, always opaque; fore-winn-s 

 nearly always short and broad, sub-triangular, with three, four, 

 or five sub-costal branches; hind-wings rounded, frequently 

 produced into a long tail, or with one or more slender filiform 

 tails, but very rarely dentated ; frequently with pale lines or 

 with ocellated spots beneath, those nearest the anal ano-le 

 often more or less metallic. Prevailing colours, red, blue 

 brown, or white, very rarely green or yellow. Front legs in 

 both sexes usually smaller than the others, but of Cfjual length 

 in both sexes, the front tarsi of the males usually unjointed, 



