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and dark ringed, witli dark club, which is not abriiptly but still distinctly thickened, and light tip. Palpi 

 long and thin, densely haired anteriorly. Eyes hairy. Forelegs in hfith sexes ninch aborted. The genus 

 consists of two North American species, one of which was for a long tinie regarded as a variety of the 

 other, until SKl^■NEE described it as a separate species. The other, the well-known portlandia, was referred 

 by Westwood to the genus Dehis (= Lethe Hbn.), by Kirby with? to the genus Euptijchid. Dyar in his 

 catalogue introduces Hubner's name Enodia for it. The neuration of the butterflies agrees with the Indian 

 genus Lethe, but the shape of the larva differs in that the head in Lethe bears one horn, in Enodia t w o. 



E. portlandia F. {= andromacha Hbn.) (44 b). Expanse 48 — 51 mm. Tlie black s^Jots of the upper pwllnndla. 

 surface, which are here non-pupiikd, with brownish yellow borders, have beneath mostly white pupils and 

 a dark brown second ring as bolder; also their number is increased by one, a small double eye-spot being 

 present at the anal angle. In the basal area on both wings a somewhat curved brown line, a second strongly 

 dentate brown line through the middle of the wings, a narrow brown submarginal band and two fine brown 

 marginal lines, between which the margin is filled up with ochre-yellow. — The larva is slender, nar- 

 rowing to a point from the middle to the anus, green, with a red dorsal and a dark green lateral line. The 

 head is bipartite, each part bears a short conical horn; the last abdommal segment with two posteriorly direct- 

 ed points. On grasses. The pui^a concave on the dorsum, convex on the ventral side, with an obtuse ele- 

 vation on the thorax, light green. The butterfly is distributed in the United States from, the east coast to the 

 Rocky Mountains and from Maine in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. 



E. creola Skinner. Similar to the preceding, but larger, o <^nd ? 57 nim. expanse. Forewing in the ,^ a-cola. 

 more elongated, at the costal margin more convex, at the distal niargin more concave. Ground-colour darker 

 grey-brown, th.e black spots on the forewing not margined ^vith lirown-yellow, at l)oth sides of the veins 

 on the forewing are placed long cottony dark brown spots, which are proximally connected, distally pointed. 

 On the hindwing the black spots are all of the same size. In th.e $ the brown-yellow bordering of the black 

 spots is bioader than in porilandla. Occurs along the Gulf of Florida to Mexico. Rare. As I do not know 

 creola in nature, I leave the question midecided whether it is a good species or only a local form of portlandia. 



9. Gemis: Taj'g'etis HJm. 



This genus consists of large and medium-sized butterflies, and also some below m.ediuni size. The 

 largest species measure 95 — 100 mm, the smallest 48 — 50 mm. The ocelli are naked; the palpi with strong, 

 bristly hairs. Antennae thin with feebly tliickened club. The costal and ni.edian veins of the forewing are 

 swoUeii at the base. Two subcostal veins on the forewing arise before the end of the cell and. two beyond it. 

 The upper discocellular is rather short, much shorter than the middle discocellular, this and the lower one are 

 of equal length. In the hindwing the upper discocellular is almost as long as the middle, th.e lower on the con- 

 trary m.ostly somewhat longer. The forewing is either sro.ootb-margined, with the apex either rounded 

 or produced, or the apex appears truncate, an obtuse angle being formed at the upper radial. The hindwing 

 is more or less strongly dentate, in many species the dentition extends over the whole distal margin, in others 

 only on the posterior part. Mostly the most strongly projecting tooth is placed on median 2, but in single 

 species on median 3. With but few exceptions the upper surface is unicolorous brown. The few known larvae 

 live on species of bamboo. The range of distribution extends over the whole of tropical America, northwards 

 to Mexico and southwards to South Brazil. 



mcrincria. 



T. mermeria Cr. (44 c). The largest species of the genus and very variable in the shape of the 

 wings and the pattern of the under surface. The name-typical form has the apex of the forewing rectangular, 

 sometimes somewhat rounded. The distal margin of the forewing is sm.ooth, that of the hindwing undulate 

 with blunt angles. Upper surface unicolorous olive-brown. Fringes sometimes olive-brown, sonietimes 

 brownish white. The under surface is very variable, mostly it is grey-brown with a narrow, straight, whit- 

 ish median band through both wings. Beyond this a row of 5 — 6 dark ocelli on each wing, of which, how- 

 ever, often only the white pupils are visible. Som.etimes also the lighter band is wanting, esijecially on the fore- 

 wing, or it is only indicated by a lighter shading, before which a broad dark brown median band runs through 

 both wings. The species has a wide distribution and is locally not rare. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Amazons, Bolivia, British Guiana, Surinam, Brazil. The butter- 

 fly flies in the lowlands in the shadow of the woods near the ground and is difficult to distinguish from the 

 dry, fallen leaves on which it is fond of resting. — crameri {Stgr. i. I.) form. yiov. (44 c) is a form of mermeria crameri. 

 in which the underside of both wings is for the most part reddish ochre-yeilow and some of the eye-spots 

 on the forewing are much larger and likewise ochre-yeilow; sometimes they are so on the hindwing also. From 

 Mexico and South Brazil. — tenebrosus Blanch. (44 c), likewise a form of mermeria, in which the forewing is tcnehrosw<. 

 produced at the costal margin into a fine point several millimeters in length and the eye-spots on the uncler 

 surface of the forewing are mostly only sm.all. The hindwing has beneath before the middle a light brownish 



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