NYMPHALID^. 117 



PuP^ angulated, often brilliantly metallic ; suspended by 

 the tail. 



Genus 1. LIMENITIS. 



Antennee with a lon^ slender club. Wings rounded, slightly 

 emarginate, blackish or brown, with white markings. 



1. L. Sibylla, L. — Expanse 2 to 2i inches. Black- 

 brown, with a central white band crossed by black nervures. 

 Under side marbled with fulvous, grey, bluish, and white. 



Black-brown, with a broad white central band from the 

 costal margin of the fore wings almost to the dorsal margin 

 of the hind, but broken in the middle of the fore wings, 

 where is a small white spot, and also regularly divided by 

 the nervures, which are blackish. Beyond it, towards the 

 hind margin, all round, is a double row of very obscure 

 round black spots. The fore wings have, in addition, a 

 whitish spot in the discal cell, near the costa, two more near 

 the apex, and one before the middle of the hind margin. 

 Cilia of fore and hind wings scalloped with white. Female 

 slightly larger and browner. 



Under side most exquisitely beautiful. The white markings 

 of all the wings as on the upper side, but broader, and with 

 additional white dashes before the margins ; basal portions 

 pale silvery blue-grey ; the remainder banded and marbled 

 with grey-brown, rusty brown, and orange-red, and having 

 two rows of blackish spots beyond the white band. 



Generally constant in colour and markings, variation, 

 when it occurs, being usually in the direction of partial or 

 total suppression of the white band and spots, and in such 

 specimens there is occasionally suffusion or obscuration of the 

 markings of the under side. A specimen in the collection of 

 Mr. S. Stevens is devoid of white markings on the upper 

 side, the under being also much suffused with tawny, and 

 the white stripe nearly obliterated. Mr. Sydney Webb has 

 six specimens, all differing in degree of variation. One has 



