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nervures, generally coalescing into a band at the tip of the 

 fore-wings. Larva clothed with short hairs. 



Pupa. — *' Head with frontal process large and curved up- 

 wards ; a dorsal series of prominent tubercles (larger on 

 thorax) along middle line of back, and two laterally-project- 

 ing claw-shaped processes on each side of the basal half of 

 abdomen" {Tri;iien). 



The type of this genus is the West African M. rhodope 

 (Fabricius), m which the male has yellow fore-wings and white 

 hind-wings; and the female is white, with a reddish spot at the 

 base of th3 fore- wings. The hind-margins are spotted with 

 black on the nervures, and the tip of the fore-wing is narrowly 

 bordered with black. 



GENUS BELENOIS. 



Belenois^ Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 92 (1816); Butlerj 

 Cist. Ent. i. p. 50(1870) ; Schatz, Exot Schmett. ii. p. 61 

 (1886). 



Antennce with an oval flattened club; wings shorter, broader, 

 more scalloped, and more densely scaled than in the last genus; 

 costa straight, and very slightly serrated. Sub-costal nervure 

 of the fore-wings four-branched, the fourth branch well marked; 

 disco cellular nervules oblique, the lower one shorter on all the 

 wings than the middle one. 



The type is B. calypso, Drury, a common West African 

 Butterfly. It measures from 2 to 2^^ inches across the 

 wings, which are white, with a broad black border, spotted 

 with white on the under side of the fore-wings, and a black 

 bar runnmg from the base of the costa of the fore-wings, 

 which is produced into a transverse bar at the end of the 

 cell. The hind-wings are tinged with yellow bcneatli, and are 

 bordered with a row of connected yellow spots, edged on each 

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