FAMILY II. LEMONIID^ 

 SUBFAMILY ERYCININ/E (THE METAL-MARKS) 



" 1 wonder what it is that baby dreams. 



Do memories haunt him of some glad place 

 Butterfly-haunted, halcyon with flowers, 

 Where once, before he found this earth of ours, 

 He walked with glory filling his sweet face ? " 



Edgar Fawcett. 



/^hifterJfj'.—Sm-ciW, the males having four ambulatory feet, 

 tl.c females six, in which respect they resemble the Libytheinae, 

 from which they may readily be distinguished by the small palpi. 

 There is great variety in the shape and neuration of the wings. 

 The genera of this subfamily have the precostal vein on the ex- 

 treme inner margin of the wing; in some genera free at its end, 

 and projecting so as to form a short frenulum, as in many gen- 

 era of the moths. In addition the costal vein sends up a branch 

 at the point from which the precostal is usually emitted. This 

 apparent doubling of the precostal is found in no other group of 

 butterflies, and is a strong diacritical mark by which they may 

 be recognized. They are said to carry their 

 wings expanded when at rest, and frequently 

 alight on the under surface of leaves, in this 

 respect somewhat approaching in their habit 

 the pyralid moths. Many of the species are 

 most gorgeously colored; but those which are 

 Fig. 125.— Neura- found within our region are for the most part 

 tion of base of hind not gaily marked. They may be distinguished 



wing of the genus I c- ' ' ' 



moiiias: PC precostal fi"om the Lycaenidse not only by the peculiar neu- 

 vein ; PC, second ration and manner of carrviuG,- the wings, but by 

 precostal vein. , , • , , ,''11' 



the relatively longer and more slender antenUcX. 



Early S/^^^5. — Comparatively little is known of these, though 

 in certain respects the larvae and the chrysalis show a relationship 



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