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fulvous, with few or no white markings, as in L. Lycone from 

 Celebes, and in the remarkable North American L. Archippus, 

 which closel}^ resembles Daiiaus Ei'ippus in colour, though it is a 

 considerably smaller butterfly. This insect is said to extend its 

 range to Venezuela, and is thus the only species of true Limenitis 

 recorded from South America. L. Artemis is another well-known 

 North American species : it is brown, with bluish suffused mark- 

 ings on the upper side, especially towards the hind margin of the 

 hind wings, and with submarginal orange spots on the under 

 surface, in addition to several other orange spots nearer the base. 

 L. Zayla is one of the largest of the East Indian species : there 

 is a white band on the hind wings only, the pale band on the fore 

 wings being broadly fulvous. L Darasa, another Indian species, 

 rather larger than our L. Sibylla, has a narrow green band, 

 which is broken into spots towards the tip of the fore wings. 



The species of Neptis are very numerous in the East Indies. 

 The}^ are generally black or brown, with white or yellow markings, 

 arranged nearly as in the European species. The species of 

 Athyma and Ahrota, which are also East Indian, are very similar, 

 but are larger and more robust insects, with a broad interrupted 

 white or tawny band on the fore wings, and one or two continuous 

 ones on the hind wings ; there is generally a long basal streak of 

 the same colour on the fore wings. In many cases the males are 

 marked with white, and the females with tawny. 



EuphcBclra is a beautiful African genus, including species 

 which measure about three inches across the wings, most of 

 "which are of a deep velvety black, suffused with bronzy green on 

 the hind wings and on the adjacent portion of the fore wings, and 

 generally with a white or yellow bar across the tips of the latter. 

 One species, however {E. Eleus, Drury), is red, with a broad 

 black white-barred tip to the fore wings, and black borders to the 

 hind wings. 



Euryplienc is another African genus. Many of the species 

 much resemble those of Euphadra, while in others the males are 

 brown and tawny, and tlie females are tawny brown, with the tips 

 of the fore wings broadly brown, and spotted or barred with 

 white. In one curious species {E. Arcadvus) the fore wings are 

 green, with several rows of whitish spots, and their base and the 

 hind wings are of a purplish brown. 



Hamanumida Daedalus is a common African butterflj', 



