of the Amazon Valley. — Lf 
Subfam. 3. EHrycinine. Pupa recumbent on a leaf or other 
object, and secured by the tail and a girdle across the 
middle. 
Family 3. Lycenide. Six perfect legs in 2; four in ¢, the anterior 
tarsi wanting one or both of the tarsal claws, but densely 
spined beneath. Pupa secured by the tail and a girdle 
across the middle. 
Family 4. Papilionide. Six perfect legs in both sexes. Pupa 
secured by the tail and a girdle across the middle. (The 
true Papiliones have a leaf-like appendage to the fore 
tibiee—a character which approximates the family to the 
Hesperide and Moths.) 
Subfam. 1. Piertne. Abdominal margin of the hind wing not 
curved inwards. 
Subfam. 2. Papilionine. Abdominal margin of the hind wing 
curving inwards. 
Family 5. Hesperide. Six perfect legs in both sexes ; hind tibie, 
with few exceptions, having two pairs of spurs. Pupa 
secured by many threads, or enclosed in a slight cocoon. 
A few words on the reasons which have compelled me to incorporate 
the Morphide and Eurytelide with the true Nymphaline will be here 
necessary. As to the family Ageronide, it was founded on a mistaken 
observation regarding the position of the pupz, and has already been 
referred to its true place by Dr. Felder in an essay on the Nympha- 
lide which he has lately published*. The Morphide of West- 
wood was from the first a heterogeneous group, comprising genera 
having the hind wing-cell closed by perfect tubular nervules like the 
Satyridz, and distinguished besides from all other groups by the pos- 
session of a small prediscoidal cell in the same wings; together with 
genera having the hind wing-cell open, and a plan of neuration not 
differing essentially from the true Nymphaline. These latter genera 
(Morpho, Thaumantis, &c.) seem to have a near relationship to the 
Satyride, and a more distant one with the Brassolide, to which all 
the genera with prediscoidal cells must be referred according to the 
foregoing Table. But they exhibit no good character whereby they 
may be distinguished from the Nymphalinze—a fact which Mr. West- 
wood has admitted in his admirable treatise, since published, on the 
Oriental species of the Morpho groupt. The old-world genera are 
* Hin neues Lepidopteron, &c., Jena, 1861. 
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