214 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



IV. Melanitis Group. 

 A group of small extent, consisting of a few East Indian, 

 African, and American species, measuring three inches and 

 upwards across the wings, which are brown, usually more or 

 less marked with fulvous on the fore-wings at least, and with 

 the hind-margin of the hind-wings nearly rectangular, with 

 a strong projection at the outer angle. Melanitis leda (Linn.), 

 and the numerous closely-allied Indian and African forms, 

 usually have two more or less developed ocellated spots near 

 the tip of the fore-wings. Schatz and Rober consider the 

 Tropical American genera of this group somewhat aberrant. 

 The type of one of these, Tisiphone hercyna, Htibner, is a black 

 Butterfly, with large white spots on the apical region of the 

 fore-wings, and with the hind-wings but little angulated. 

 Another remarkable genus we have figured, viz., 



GENUS OEROIS. 



Cccrois, Htibner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 56 (1816); Schatz 



and Rober, Exot. Schmett, ii., p. 206 (1SS9). 

 Cterous, Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 366 (185 1). 



C/EROIS CHORIN/EUS. 



(Plate XXXVI.) 



Papi/io chorines, Fa.br., Syst. ILnL, p. 484, no. 182 (1775); 



Donov., Nat. Rep., iii., pi. 104 (1825). 

 Papilio ancsilaus, Sulz., Gesch. Ins., pi. 14, fig. 4 (1776); 



Cramer, Pap. Exot., iv., pi. 294, A.-D. (17S0); Stoll. 



Suppl. Cramer, pi. vi., figs 1, ia ( 1 7S7, transf.). 

 Satyrus chorincens, Godart, Enc. Meth., ix., p. 480, no. io 



(1823). 

 Ccerois chorinczus, Staud., Exot. Schmett., i., p. 221, pi. 77 



(1S87). 



Carols is a small South American genus, and is recognisable 



