LEPIDOPTERA. — NYMPHALIDA. 353 
inhabitant of New Holland, where it abounds to such an extent, that 
it is employed as an article of food by the natives, who call them 
Bugong, and collect them by bushels, and then bake them by placing 
them upon heated ground. (Bennett’s Wanderings, vol.i. p. 265. ; 
Kirby, Bridg. Treat. vol. ii. p. 350.) 
The third family, NymMpHaLipe® Swainson (fig. 98. 1. Vanessa C. 
album), comprising the greater portion of Dr. Horsfield’s Chilopodi- 
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form, and the whole of his Thysanuriform stirps, as well as Bois- 
duval’s families Nymphalides, Brassolides, Morphides, Satyrides, and 
Biblides, and probably also his Peridromides * (Per. Arethusa Bdv. 
Hist. Nat. Ins. Lep. p\.’7. c. 5.; P. Amphinome Zinn., Cramer, 54. E. 
F., South America), and Libythides+, is distinguished by the rudi- 
mental structure of the fore legs in both sexes} (jig. 98. 4, 5, 6, 7.), 
* Although agreeing in the general characters of the imago with the Nympha- 
lide, this genus has the chrysalis girt across the middle, like that of Papilio, 
according to Lacordaire. (Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1833, p. 392.) 
+ The angulated outline of the wings and the structure of the tarsal ungues in 
the interesting genus Libythea correspond with those of the typical Nymphalide. 
The caterpillar, however, resembles that of Pieris, but the pupa is simply suspended 
by the tail; the females, also, according to Boisduval, have six feet, whilst the males 
have only four. The discoidal cell of the hind wings is described as open by Bois- 
duval, but it is figured as closed in the new edition of the Régne Animal. (Ins. 
pl.136. f.1. e.) The great length of the palpi is not sufficient to raise it to the 
rank of a distinct family or tribe. This genus is therefore intermediate between 
the Nymphalide and Eucheira socialis Westw., which, although having a simply 
suspended chrysalis, is furnished with six feet. It is, therefore, as an aberrant 
group of Nymphalide that this latter genus ought probably to be ranged. 
¢ In the Argynnes, the fore legs of the female, althotigh small, have the tarsi 
composed of five distinct joints, each armed with a pair of minute spines ( fig.98. 4. 
and 5. fore leg §; 6 and 7. fore leg 2 of Argynnis Paphia), 
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