STJBPAMILY m.-ELYMNIlN^, Henich-ScliafTer, (PLATE XVII). 

 Elymiiima, Herricli-SchUfler, Prodr. Syst Lep., pt. i, p. 15 (1864) ; EjirytelidcF, in part, Westwood, 

 Gen D. L., vol. ii, p. 403 (1851). 



Body moderately robust. Head moderate-sized. Eyes naked, prominent. Anfentia: 

 slender, with a slender gradually-formed indistinct club. Palpi elongate, porrect, clothed 

 beneath with short appressed hairy scales and perceptibly tufted above, the tuft lying against 

 the face and following the contour of the eye. Wings large, weak, generally dentate, and 

 very seldom ocellated. Forewing with the costal nervure always greatly swollen at the base. 

 Discouial cell short and very broad ; upper disco-cellular nervule very short, just beyond the 

 second subcostal nervule ; the upper discoidal nervule originating close to the subcostal 

 nervure ; the middle disco-cellular much longer, inwardly oblique, the lower disco-cellular consi- 

 derably the longest, highly concave, and closing the cell by junction with the median nervure 

 at the origin of its second branch. Submediaii nervure undulate, extending to the hinder angle. 

 HiNDWiNG, male with a glandular patch in the upper half of the cell, overlaid by two tufts of 

 erectile hairs laid along the atrophied trunk of the discoidal nervure in the middle of the cell ; 

 discoidal cell short, broad ; upper disco-cellular originating generally at some distance beyond 

 the first subcostal nervule, moderately long ; lower disco-cellular considerably longer and unit- 

 ing with the median nervure at the origin of the second median nervule ; costal nervure divided 

 at the base, forming a false prcediscoidal cell ; abdominal margin slightly channelled to reoLiive 

 the abdomen. Forelegs small, those of the male more or less hairy, cylindrical, blunt 

 at tip ; those of the female also small, cylindrical, and blunt at the tip, but longer and not 

 perceptibly hairy. 



" Larva cylindrical, rather attenuated before and behind. Head armed with two erect 

 spines ; abdomen terminated by two more elongated divergent spines. PuPA suspended 

 by the tail, with small tubercles along the back and sides ; the middle of the dorsum of the 

 thorax-case elevated into an obtuse point ; head terminated by two conical points." (West' 

 wood, 1. c, p. 404.) 



The ElymtiiincE constitute a small group of Old World butterflies ranging from West 

 Africa to New Guinea, the head quarters of which are in tbe Malayan Archipelago. Westwood, 

 in the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, grouped them with Eurytela, Ergolis, Byblia { — Hypaiiis) 

 (NymphalincB), and a few American genera, in a separate family under the name of EuryielidcBy 

 at the same time remarking that he should prefer to rank it as a subfamily only. Mr. Kirby, in 

 his Synonymic Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera (1871), places it alone as a separate sub- 

 family between the Satyrince and the Morphince. Mr. Distant, in his Rhopalocera Malayana 

 (1882), includes it in the Satyrince with the following remark: "I have included this 

 genus in the SatyrincB, in which subfamily it possesses a somewhat unique position, 

 not only in general colouration and markings, but also by its neuration, the second 

 and third median nervules of the forewing having a common origin ;" and he adds that 

 Mr. Kirby has also recently included it among the Satyrimj;. In habits and weakness 

 of flight the Elymniina closely resemble the Satyriim. In the sexual patch and tuft of 

 the hindiving of the male they shew an affinity to some Morphines, and also to Mycalcsis. 

 In the dilation of the base of the costal nervure they also show affinity with the Satyrince, 

 with at least one genus of the Morphince {Clerome), and with the genera Eurytela, 



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