SYNOPSIS OF THE FAMILIES AND SUBFAMILIES. 



RHOPALOCERA, 



FAMILIES. 



1,— NYMPHALID^, with the Forelegs very feebly developed in both sexes, short, 

 imperfect, and unfitted for walking. FOREWING with the subcostal nervure emitting four 

 branches exclusive of terminal portion. 



I.— DANAINiE: Body, long, slender; ANTBNNiB, not half the length of forewing, gradually davate ; 

 PALPI, shorty divergent, erect, very slightly compressed, clothed with dense short porrect hairs ; wings, 

 entire, rather lengthened, never dentate or caudate ; cbll, closed in both wings ; forewing, nervures 

 never dilated at base, upper disco-cellular minute or wanting, internal nervure slender, running into the 

 submedian near its base ; hindwing, discoidal nervure appearing as a third subcostal nervule, no 

 prsdiscoidal cell. 



II,— SATYRINiE : Body, short, weak ; antennae, short, slender, club usually slender but variable in 

 shape ; palpi, moderately long, divergent, erect, very much compressed, and clothed in front -with long 

 /orr^ci /ia/yj; WINGS, broad, sometimes rounded, often dentate, occasionally falcate in forewing and 

 slightly caudate in hindwing; cell, closed in both wings ; forewing, with the nervures generally 

 dilated at base; hindwing, with no praediscoidal cell. 



HI.— ELYMNIINiE : Body, rather robust ; antenn/E, short, slender, with long, slender, gradually formed 

 club; VM-Fi, long, divergent, porrect, nearly straight, only slightly compressed, clothed luith short 

 oppressed hairs longer on the back edge ; wings, dentate, or angled ; cell, broad, generally closed in 

 both wings by long, slender, much curved nervules ; forkwing, with the costal nervure only slightly 

 dilated at base; Hiao-winG, furnished with a priediscoidal cell. 



IV. — MORPHINjB: Body, robust, seldom elongate; antenna, long, slender, with a slender club; 

 palpi, sinall, wide apart, erect (elongate and porrect in Am.athusia and Zeuxidia), front edgt 

 narrowed and sharp, clothed with scales or scaly appressed hairs, the back edge often hairy; wings 

 large, broad, ample, sometimes rounded, sometimes with a short broad tail ; cbll, in forewing broad, 

 closed— in hindwing open ; forewing, with the nervures not dilated at base (except in CletomeJ, the 

 costal nervure sometimes appearing as if branched ; hindwing, with no prjediscoidal cell. 



v.— ACR^IN^: Body, long, rather stout ; antenna, short, abruptly clavate, the club obtuse at tip; 

 palpi, long, divergent, erect, hairy, the second joint somewhat sivollen ; wings, long, narrow, entire, 

 never dentate or caudate; cell, closed in both wings; forewing, nervures not dilated at base; 

 HINDWING, with no praediscoidal cell, «<7^ tAa««fi//^^ to receive abdomen; nburation as in Danaince, 



VI.— NYMPHALIN^ : Body, robust ; antenna, long, with a broad elongate distinct club ; palpi, large, 

 protruding, wide apart, scaly, the front edge broadly dilated; wings, large, triangular, but varying 

 much in outline ; cell, sometimes closed in both wings, often open in hindwing, and sometimes open in 

 forewing also ; forewing, nervures not dilated at base, (except in a few genera, Ergolis, Eurytela, 

 &c., in which the costal nervure only is dilated), the second subcostal uervule emitted before end of 

 cell ; hindwing. channelled to receive abdomen, no praediscoidal cell. 



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