J42 Lloyd^s natural history. 



SUB-FAMILY THAIDIN^. 



Palpi long, projecting beyond the head ; antennae short ; 

 Kings dentated or tailed ; sub-costal nervure of the fore-wings 

 five-branched ; median and sub-median nervures of the fore- 

 ivings not connected by a short cross-nervure near the base, 

 except in Teinopalptis^ but the hind-wings with the costal and 

 sub-costal nervures thus connected. 



A very small, but interesting group, confined to the Mediter- 

 ranean Region, Bhutan, China, and Japan. They are so well 

 marked that it is hardly necessary to distinguish them here by 

 more than their outward characters. 



GENUS THAIS. 



Thais, Fabricius in Illiger's Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 283 (1807); 



Latreille, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 9 (1819); Boisduval, Spec. 



Gen. Lepid. i. p. 382 (1836); Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. 



Lepid. p. 30 (1847); Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 50 



(1886.) 

 Moderate-sized Butterflies, expanding about two inches 

 across the wings, which arc broad, and not very long. They 

 vary from yellowish-white to ochreous, and are ornamented 

 with festooned markings on the hind-margins, somewhat like 

 those on the under surface of the genus Cethosia in the 

 Nymphalidce{cf. vol. i. p. 48). The fore-wings are banded or 

 spotted with black, chiefly towards the costa, and are often 

 more or less spotted with red ; the hind-wings are more or less 

 clouded or spotted with black, chiefly towards the base and 

 inner-margin, and have always a sub-marginal row of red spots. 

 The hind-wings are always dentated, and sometimes sub- 

 caudate. 



The larvae are cylindrical, rather short, and covered with 

 fleshy spines and short hairs. They feed on difl"erent species 



