ST73FAMILY VI.— NTMPHALllTiE, Bates. (Frontispiece, Plates XVIII 



TO XXIV INCLUSIVE.) 



Nym/>halintE, Bates, Journ. Ent., voL ii, p. 176 (1864) ; id., Moore, Lep. Cey., vol. i, p. 26 (1880) ; 

 Nympkalina, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 83 (1882) ; Nymphalida (part) and Eurytelidie (part), Westwood, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lep., pp. 143, 403 (1852, 1851). 



" 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, d^c, in which the costal nervure only is dilated), the second sub- 

 costal nervule emitted before end of cell*; hindwing, channelled to receive abdomen, no 

 prsediscoidal cell." ( Marshall 2iX\.^ de Niceville, Butt, of India, vol. i, p. 17). 



" Body, more or less robust. Head, of moderate size. Eyes, large, generally naked. 

 Palpi, large, generally obliquely porrected, extending considerably in front of the bead, wide 

 apart, generally clothed with scales, with the front edge broadly dilated ; the basal joint 

 generally curved, and furnished beneath with a tuft of hairs ; the terminal joint small and 

 slender. Antenncs, generally rather long, and terminated by a broad or elongated club. 

 Thorax, large. Abdomen, moderate-sized or large. Wings, large, often greatly variegated 

 in the colours, and marked beneath with ocellated spots [in a few of the genera only, the wings 

 are also sometimes marked with ocelli on both sides]. Forewing, generally more or less trian- 

 gular, with the discoidal cell closed [usually, though frequently it is entirely open] by slender 

 disco-cellular nervules : veins, not dilated at the base [except in the first three genera] ; the sub- 

 costal nervure emitting four branches, exclusive of the terminal portion of the vein, which has 

 sometimes been regarded as a fifth branch ; the first and second branches generally arising 

 before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell [in a few genera the first subcostal nervule only 

 arises before the end of the cell], and the third and fourth at equal distances apart between 

 the extremity of the cell and the tip of the wing. Hindwing, generally broadly ovate, rarely 

 furnished in the males with tufts of hair ; the outer margin often more or less deeply scalloped 

 or dentated, the abdominal margin forming a deep groove for the reception of the abdomen ; 

 not furnished at the base with a prtediscoidal cell ; the prjecostal nervure short and arched ; 

 the discoidal cell of moderate length, generally closed by slender disco-cellular nervules. 

 Forelegs, short, and not fitted for walking ; the tibia and tarsus of the male often clothed 

 at the sides with a fringe of fine hairs, forming a flattened brush ; the tarsus consisting of a 

 single elongated joint, obtuse at the top, and destitute of claws ; those of the female 

 generally rather longer, with the tarsus rather dilated at the extremity, where it is more or 

 less distinctly obliquely articulated ; the articulations, as well as the tip of the tarsus, armed 

 beneath with short spines. Hindlegs, long, with the tibiae armed with two spurs at the tip, 

 and the underside of the tibia and tarsus armed with rows of short spines. Claws, simple, 

 acute, curved ; paronychia, large, bifid, setose, leathery ; the outer division largest ; pulvillus, 

 dilated." 



" Larva, long, generally cylindric, and more or less splned ; not or rarely attenuated 

 behind, and with the hinder extremity of the body generally obtuse. Pupa, elongate, 

 generally more or less armed with angulated prominences ; suspended by the tail only, hanging 

 by the extremity of the body, and not girt across the middle." (IVestioood, 1. c, p. 143 ) 



• The position of the second subcostal nervule of the forewing is very variable, beiiit; sometimes given off 

 after the end of the cell. 



