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forewing and anal angle of hindwing in the male are sharply angulate ; in the other 

 the body is comparatively slender, the apex of the forewing in the male is more or less falcate, 

 and the anal angle of the hindwing is rounded. In all the inner margin of the forewing is 

 long, and in many the anal angle of the hindwing is somewhat produced. 



Genus 74.— LIMENITIS, Fabricius, (Plate XXIV). 



Liinenitis, Fabricius, 111. Mag., vol. vi, p. 28r, n. lo (1807) ; id., Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 44 (1816) ; 

 id., Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., vol- ii, p. 274 (1850) ; id., Felder, Neues Lep., p. 29, n. 71 (1861) ; id.. Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay., p. 147 (1883) ; Callianira, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 38 (1816) ; Basilarchia, Scudder, 

 Syst. Rev., p. 8 (1872) ; Nytnphalis, Boisduval, (nee Latreille), Ind. Mdth., p. 14 (1829) ; idem, id.. Gen. 

 Ind. M^th., p. 16 (1840) ; id., Boisduval and Leconte, Lep. Amer. Sept., p. 197 (1833) ; Moduza, Moore, Lep. 

 Cey., vol. I, p. 47 (1881) ; Najas, Hubner, Tentamen, p. i (1806). 



♦' Body, moderate ; abdomen, rather short and small ; wings, long, trigonate. I/ead, 

 rather small, with a small tuft of hair at the base of each antenna, and a small, conical, 

 frontal tuft. Eyes, but slightly prominent, naked. Palpi, rather short, thick, directed 

 obliquely upwards, reaching rather above the middle of the eyes ; the tips convergent, thickly 

 clothed with short hairs, especially upon the underside of the basal joint, and the upperside 

 of the terminal half of the second joint ; the third joint short, oval, obtuse at the tip. 

 AntenncB, scarcely half the length of the costal margin of the forewing, straight ; terminated 

 by a very slender, gradually-formed club, which is nearly one-third of the length of the 

 whole antenna, rather obliquely truncate at the tip, with a very shallow double groove on 

 the underside. Haustellum, long and strong. Thorax, oval, hairy ; tippets and sides of 

 the metathorax more hirsute. Forewing, elongate-trigonate ; costal margin very little 

 arched ; apex rounded ; outer margin rather more than two-thirds of the length of the costa, 

 emarginate, and very slightly scalloped ; inner margin a very little longer than the outer 

 margin, nearly straight. Costal nervure strong, extending to three-fifths of the length of the 

 costa ; subcostal nervure with the first and second branches arising close together before the 

 extremity of the discoidal cell ; third branch arising just beyond the place of junction of the 

 costal nervure with the costa, and extending to the tip of the wing ; fourth branch arising at 

 about four-fifths of the length of the wing, reaching the outer margin a little below the 

 apex, the terminal portion of the subcostal nervure very slightly deflexed. Upper disco-cellular 

 nervule arising at four-ninths of the length of the wing, extremely short ; middle disco-cellular 

 short, curved outwards ; /(?7c^r disco-cellular slender, nearly straight,* uniting with the third 

 branch of the median nervure just beyond its origin, closing the discoidal cell, which is rather 

 narrow, and reaches nearly to half the length of the wing. Median neivure strong, its 

 branches wide apart, the third gradually arched. Hindwing, subtriangular ; costal margin 

 not much curved ; outer margin of the same length as the costal, somewhat truncate from 

 the extremity of the subcostal nervure to that of the first branch of the median, scalloped. 

 PrcBcostal nervure well-defined and curved outwardly ; costal nervure arched, extending to 

 the outer angle of the wing ; subcostal nervure arising just before the praecostal, its branches 

 arising at the same distance from its base as exists between the base of the wing and that 

 of the praecostal nervure. Upper disco-cellular nervule forming the base of the discoidal 

 nervule, and arising at a similar distance from the base of the subcostal nervule ; lower disco- 

 cellular [usually] wanting, so that the discoidal cell is open. Median nervure and its branches 

 moderately robust. Forelegs, of the male small, pectoral, clothed with rather short loose 

 hairs ; femur slightly thickened at the base ; tibia nearly straight, as long as the femur, 

 sli"-litly thickened at the tip ; tarsus two-thirds of the length of the tibia, gradually attenuated, 

 and, when denuded of scales and hairs, consisting of three distinct joints, the basal joint 

 more than half the length of the tarsus, the second and third of nearly equal length. Of 

 the fetnale longer than in the male, more scaly, and much less hairy ; the fe?nur and tibia of 

 nearly equal length, the tarsus two-thirds of the length of the tibia, and of equal thickness 

 with it to the tip, composed of five joints, the basal joint occupying half the length of the 



* See detailed description of the subgenus Moduza on page 163, in which the lower disco-cellular is 

 outwardly convex, meeting the median nervure far beyond the origin of the second median nervule ; in typical 

 Limenitii it is nearly straight, and is joined to the median nervure at the origin of the second ntedian nervule. 



