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Piychandra, Gnophodes, and Melanitis, are Indian or 

 African. They are insects measuring two to three and a half 

 inches in expanse, and the hind wings are generally strongly 

 dentated, and often prolonged into a short tail. Zophoessa 

 contains brown species, with a submarginal row of black 

 spots on the hind wings, ocellated beneath. The species of 

 Lethe are also brown, and have usually a more or less well- 

 marked white stripe across the apex of the fore wings. 

 Blanaida resembles Satyrus (Lasiommata) in colour, being 

 brown, spotted or marked with tawny, but may be distin- 

 guished by its larger size and more dentated hind wings. 

 Ptychandra is of a rich purplish blue, a colour not common 

 in the Satyrince, but is marked beneath with submarginal 

 eyes in an unmistakably Satyrine manner. Gnophodes 

 contains a few brown insects, with a transverse yellow stripe 

 across the fore wings near the tip, and is confined to Africa. 

 In both Gnophodes and Melanitis the fore wings are hooked, 

 and the hind wings strongly dentated. Melanitis Leda is an 

 abundant insect in Asia and Africa; it is brown, with a very 

 large black spot near the tip of the fore wings, with a white 

 pupil, and another white spot above it. The hind wings 

 have one or two minute spots near the anal angle. The 

 apical markings of the fore wings are often partly surrounded 

 with fulvous, or the fore wings may be considerably suffused 

 with this colour. The under side varies excessively, scarcely 

 two specimens being alike ; it is generally mottled or striped 

 with brown, sometimes with large and distinct submarginal 

 ocelli, and sometimes with these reduced to while dots. 

 This insect shuns the direct rays of the sun, and is generally 

 found flying in shady places, or at dusk. 



Several of the succeeding genera are among the most 

 remarkable in the subfamily. Orinoma Damaris, a Hima- 

 layan butterfly, about two and a half to three inches across, 

 resembles the genus Danaus in pattern. It is brown, with 

 yellowish spots and stripes, and has a triangular orange spot 

 at the base of the fore wings, upon which are two or three 

 black dots. The East Indian genera Zethera and Neorina 

 contain large species, from three to four and a half inches in 

 diameter. Zethera Pimplea hardly resembles the SatyriniB, 

 being brown, with a broad transverse white band across all 

 the wings, and the edges spotted with white. Z. Musn is 



