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ERYCINID^. 



TAXILA. 



1. Tax. Duroa. 



Melitaea Durga A'o/far in Hugels Raise d. Kaschmtr, Ent. 



p. 44.. pi. 13. f. 3, 4. 

 Nemeobius? Demeter E. Doubt. List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. 2. p. 2. 

 Himalaya, Simla. B. M. 



2. Tax. Egeon. . 



Eraesis Egeon Boisduval MS. ; E. Douhledaji, List Lep. 

 Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 2. (Taxila Eg.) ; Doubl. Westw. Sf 

 Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 69- f- 2. 

 Nepaul. B. M. 



3. Tax. Echerius. 



Papilio Echerius S(off, Suppl. Cr. pi. 31. f. 1. 1 A. 1 B. ; 

 Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 5(56. n. 12. (Erycina E.). E. 

 Douhtcdaij, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 3. (TaxUa 

 Echerius). 

 Hesperia Coriolanus Fabricitis, Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 

 284. n. 91. ; Jones, Icones, vi. t. 48. f. 1. ; Godart, 

 Enc. 71/. IX. p. 828. n. 11—12 (Erycina Cor.). 

 Lycsena Xenodice Hiibner, Verz. bek Schrn. p. 23. n. 174. 

 China and East India. B- M- 



4. Tax. Gerontes. 



Papiho Gerontes Fabricius, Spec. Ine. ii. p. 117. n. 524. 



(1781). 



Papilio Baucis Drnri, III. iii. pt. 12. f. 3, 4. (1782). 

 Sierra Leone. 



5. Tax. Tepahi. 



Emesis Tepahi Boisduval, Lep. Madagascar, pi. 3. f. 4. 



Madagascar. 



6. Tax. Dbupadi. . . „ 



Emesis Drupadi Horsfield, Descr. Cat. Lep. E. Ind. Co. 

 t. 2. f. 3. 3 a — g. ; E. Doiibleduy, List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. 2. p. 2. (Taxila Dr.) ; Boisduval, Sp. gen. Lep. pi. 7- 

 f. 2. (Emesis Dr.). 

 Penang, Java. "■ *'• 



7. Tax. Obphna. , „, r ^ 



Emesis Orphna Boisduval, Sp. gen. Lep. pi. ^1. t. 4. ; 

 Doubleday, Westw. & Heii-its. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 69. f. 

 6. (f.), 7. (m.) ; E. Doubleduy, List Lep. Brit. Mus. 

 pt. 2. p. 2. (Taxila Or.). 

 Borneo, India. ^- ^^• 



8. Tax. Fvlla. „ „ , , j t- . t 



Emesis Fylla Boisduval, MS. ; E. Doubleday. List Lep. 

 Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 2. (Taxila Eg.) ; Doubl. Westw. &; 

 Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 69. f. 3. 

 Nepaul, Sylhet, Northern India. B. M. 



Genus VI. i\IETHONE. 



Metuone E. DoubleJay, List Lep. B. M. 

 Helicopis p. Hiibner, Verz. 

 Erycina p. God'. 



Body moderately robust : wings large ; hind wings produced on the outer margin into a series of short tails. Female 

 nearly similar to the male, but with paler and larger spots, and the hind wings with a submargmal row of pale 



round spots. , , . , ^, 



Head small, considerably wider in the males than in the females, hairy between the eyes. 



fSL'rp'?pTvery short, compressed, curved, tlie extremity not extending so far as the frontal hairs of the 

 face, cloUied beneath with a few moderately long hairs ; terminal joint very short and somewhat ^•o>';'-;'j\ . 



Antennce scarcely half the length of the fore wings, slender ; o.nts very indistinct, not annulated with ^^ n te 

 ternSiated by a long gradually formed but very slender club, not much thicker than the basal portion ut the 

 antenna3, obtuse at the tip. 

 TnrnjAT small ovate, hairy at the sides and behind. , , . . 1 • v, i- 



"^"XriF'^rialge, triangularly ovate. Costal margin well arched; apical angle rounded. Ap-a mai^n ab u 

 five sev-enths of the length of the costal, entire, very convex especial y in the females. Hmde "^ S "^J"; 

 in len<.th to the apical. Costal vein reaching to about the middle of the costa Pos costal vein witli is his 

 and scind branches arising before the ant °rior extremity of the discoida cell the third ^fl^T^l^ 

 three fourths of the lengtli of the wing, and the fourth very near the tip. The upper disco-cellu a ve n i s 

 obsolete ; the middle one arises about the middle of the length of the wmg, half way between the c^^J^ ;^"f 

 and the base of the upper discoidal vein, short, rather curved, and oblique; lower disco-cellular about twice as 

 St as the middle onl, carried obliquely in the same direction, and uniting with the tl^rd branch ol te 

 median vein at about the same distant from its origin as exists between the first '^d^^^^^l'l^J^;^]^ f^^^^^^ "^J 

 closing the discoidal cell in an acute point. The upper discoidal vein arises at a short .^^if '^^'^^^^g^ ^VJj 

 discoidal cell, and runs in the same direction as the basal part of the postcostal vein, ot which it might, indeea, 

 be considered as the continuation. 



