﻿NYMPHALIN^. (Gronp limenitina.) 161 



Genus MODUZA. 



Limenitis (part), Fekler, Neues Lep. p. 30 (1861). Distant, Rhop, Malay, p. 147 (1883). Semper, 



Raise Philip, Lep. p. 140 (1889). Westwood. de Niceville. 

 Proerig, Herr. Schseffer, Prod. Syst. Lep. i. p. 23 (1864) — {pre-ocmtpied) . 

 Moduza, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 47 (1881). 



Imago. — Male. "Wings moderately broad. Forewing triangular ; costa regularly 

 arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique and deeply scalloped ; cell long, 

 lower end extending to fully half the wing, closed ; first subcostal branch emitted 

 at nearly one-half before en d of the cell, second at one-fifth before the end ; upper 

 and middle discocellulars disposed very obliquely outwards, middle and lower dis- 

 cocellular nearly of the same length, upper discocellular very short, middle, long, 

 concave at base, lower slender erect and slightly convex ; middle median veinlet 

 emitted at a considerable distance before lower end of the cell and opposite to its 

 upper end ; submedian vein straight. Eindiving short and broad ; costa arched 

 from the base ; exterior margin obliquely convex and deeply scalloped ; precostal 

 vein stout, incurved, emitted opposite the subcostal ; cell area broad, open ; radial 

 and base of subcostal branch at equal distances from the costal vein ; lower median 

 veinlet emitted from opposite base of the radial ; two upper medians at some 

 distance beyond. Body stout, densely clothed with short hairy scales ; palpi porrect, 

 compactly clothed beneath and at the sides, second joint densely hairy above, third 

 joint short, stout, pointed ; antenna) with a lengthened very slender club; eyes 

 naked. Sexes alike. 



Cateepillar. — Cylindrical. Head large, closely set with short stout spines. 

 Segments with a double row of strong spines, or sharp tubercles, clustered at the 

 ends of short stems ; on the third segment are two pairs more laterally situated, but 

 much longer; on the fourth segment one pair still longer. 



Chrysalis. — Suspended vertically ; abdominal end slender, with small dorsal 

 tubercles ; thorax stout ; wing cases dilated laterally ; head-piece produced into 

 two foliaceous hammer-shaped processes. 



Type. — M. Procris. 



MODUZA PR0CEI3 (Plate 253, fig. 1, larva and pupa, la, b, e, d, <^ ? ). 



Papilio Procris, Cram;r, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 106, fig. E. F. ? (1777). Fabricius, Ent. Syst. III. i. 



p. 138 (1793). 

 Nymphalis Procris, Godart, Enc. Meth. ii. p. 404 (1819). 

 Limenitis Procris, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. p. 176 (1850). Butler, Cital. Fabr. Lep. 



B. M. p. 59 (1809). de Xiccville, Butt, of India, etc., ii. p. 163 (1886). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. 



pi. 50. Davidson and Aitken, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Sac. 1890, p. 274. 

 Limenitis diluta, Oljerthur, Etud. Ent. 1896, pi. 10, fig. 176 {Aberration). 

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