on South American Butterflies. 5 



The Lemonias, as figured on a plate by Mr. Hewitson, are a 

 strange mixture :* there are a few species (Z,. Pylhia is one) which, 

 in style of colours, shape of liind wings, and mode of holding the 

 wings in repose, are sufficiently distinct from the typical Nymphi- 

 dia to be separated from them. They are found only in the 

 virgin forest, Hy low and by rapid jerks, and, settling on under- 

 surfaces of leaves near the ground, hold their wings perpendicu- 

 larly. The females differ much from the males. 



7'hrtrops, Doubl. — The metallic-coloured Nymphidice, I think, 

 are a distinct group, and may be kept separate; their flight is 

 extremely rapid, they are found only at tlie borders of the forest, 

 and sometimes settle on flowers. Their wings are always held 

 horizontally. 



^nalole, Doubl., I also consider a distinct group, a genus of 

 charming little creatures ; they are found more rn the centre of 

 the forest, their flight rapid, wings horizontal in repose. Lemo- 

 nias Irene, L. Rhodope, and two others, figured by Mr. Hewitson 

 as Lemonice, I should consider Anatoles. Irene and another large 

 species of sin)ilar colours I took at Ega, in the very centre of the 

 forest, in a moist dell by the banks of a rivulet; they are very 

 rare. Their flight and mode of repose is exactly that of Anatole. 

 The female o^ Irene I have also found: it differs more from the 

 male in colours than the female of white Nijmphidice differ from 

 their males. 



Emesis. — The three or four species I have found are more 

 rapid and jerky in their flight than the preceding, and are chiefly 

 found at the borders of the forest and at flowers. Their mode of 

 holding the wings in repose is the same as Tharops, &c. Although 

 the neuration of the wings is identical with the preceding genera, 

 their palpi distinguishes them quite sufficiently. 



The Symmachice are very similar to the Emesis in their habits, 

 as they are in structure. The two gilded green species found at 

 Ega are very abundant at certain seasons ; the females are found 

 only at flowers on the borders of the forest, in company with the 



* The mixture is from good authority. The genus is Mr. Westwood's, who 

 could find no characters by which to separate the species composing the genera 

 Tharops and Anatole from the other species of Lemonias. It would be a mistake 

 to separate Lemonias Irene and L, Pithia of that plate from each other. — 



vv. c. n. 



