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coBcave, lower slender and convex ; middle median veinlet at a considerable distance 

 before lower end of the cell. Hindioing sliort, broad, triangulate; apex and exterior 

 margin very convex and oblique ; cell closed by a slender lower discocellular veinlet; 

 precostal vein abruptly incurved toward the tip. Body robust ; palpi stout, 

 flattened, densely clothed v ith short hairs, apical joint very sliort and obtuse ; 

 antennae very long, club stout; eyes naked. Type. — Chalinga Elwesi (Limenitis 

 Elwesi, Oberthur, Bull. Bnt. Soc. France, 1883, p. 128 ; id. Etud. Ent. 1884, p. 15, 

 pi. 2, fig. 4, S. Hahitat. E. Tibet; Yunan. 



Genus Litinga. — Male. Forewing triangular, exterior margin scalloped ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before end of the cell, second at nearly 

 one-fourth beyond the end of cell ; roiddle discocellular outwardly-oblique, 

 concave, lower discocellular recurved ; middle median emitted at some distance 

 before lower end of the cell. Hindiuing small, triangularly-ovate ; anterior margin 

 slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, slightly convex, scalloped, 

 anal angle rounded ; cell area rather narrow and long, open ; radial emitted from 

 lower subcostal at an equal distance from its base as the latter is from the costal. 

 Body moderate ; palpi densely but laxly hairy to tip, apex slender ; antennal club 

 elongated ; eyes naked. Type. Litinga Gottini (Limenitis Cottini, Oberthur, Etud. 

 Entom. 1884, p. 17, pL 2, fig. 5, S ; Leech, Butt, of China, etc., p. 180, S ?. 

 Hahitat. E. Tibet; W. China. — Litinga mimica (Limenitis miraica, Poujade, Bull. 

 Soc. Entom. France, 1886, p. 200, Hahitat. Moupin, W. China. 



Genus Limenitfs. Fabricius, lUiger's Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807). Limruiti.^ (part), 

 Ochsenheimer. Hubner. Boisduval. — Male. Wings short. Forewing subtriangular; 

 costa slightly arched at the base, and thence nearly straight to end, apex obtuse ; 

 exterior margin almost erect, uneven ; posterior margin straight ; first subcostal 

 emitted fully one-third, and second at one-ninth before end of cell ; middle disco- 

 cellular concave, lower undulated, slender; middle median emitted immediately 

 before lower end of cell. Hindioing broad, obtusely ovate ; costa broadly lobato at 

 base, thence straight to end, exterior margin convex and slightly scalloped, anal 

 angle rounded ; precostal vein long, incurved ; cell area broad and short, open. 

 Body somewhat slender, hairy ; palpi somewhat stout, laxly hairy, apex robust, 

 conical ; antennaa with a well-formed lengthened club ; eyes naked. Caterpillar. 

 Somewhat cylindrical. Head slightly cleft and spinous at vertex. Third, fourth, 

 sixth, eleventh, and twelfth segment with two subdorsally disposed elongated fleshy 

 tuberculate spiny processes ; other segments with minute similarly disposed spines. 

 Chrysalis. With broad, much elevated anterio-dorsal prominence and arched 

 thorax ; head-piece obtusely bifid. Type. L. Drusilla (Camilla, Fabr.). — Limenitis 

 Drusilla (Pap. Drusilla, Bergstrasser, Nomen. iii, pi. (ST, figs. 5, 6 (1779). Lim. 

 Drusilla, Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 146 (1895). Pap. Camilla, Wieu. 



