I 'her (lie Palpen der Rhopalocere.n. 28^ 



werden sogar diese Familien als so eng mit einander verbunden betrachtet, 

 dass sie (meist als Sektionen oder Snbfamilien) in einer Familie vereinigt wer- 

 den. Vor allem hat ScroDEii die wahre Blutsverwandtschaft zwischen den 

 Lycaenidae und Erycinidae kräftig hervorgehoben und zugleich durch das Dar- 

 legen einer ganzen Summe übereinstimmender und von allen Lebenstadien 

 hergenommener Merkmale seiner Auffassung eine feste Begründung gegeben. 

 Weil seine Ausführungen in eingehender und überzeugender Weise die gegen- 

 seitigen Relationen der genannten Familien zu Tage treten lassen, erlaube ich 

 mir dieselben z. T. wörtlich anzuführen. Sci'dder sagt: „I have ventured to 

 départ from the ordinary customs of entomologists by considering the Lemo- 

 niinae and Lycaeniinae as subfamilies of one great group, instead of classing 



them as distinct familles". „In brief, it may be said that these two groups 



bear to each other almost identical relations to those borne to each other by 

 the Picrinae and Fapüioninae. Those who consider these two latter groups 

 as members of a single family should regard tiie Lycaenüdae as forraing a 

 family group of similar significance". 5jThe agreement of the two sub- 

 families, Lemoniinae and Lycaeninae, in the characteristics at this stage 

 [Eistadiura] of life are so complète that it is impossible with our slight know- 

 ledge of the former, to formulate any satisfactory diagnostic distinctions". 



„The Caterpillar as it leaves the egg is distinguished by the présence of 

 chitinous annuli or lenticular elevations, serially arranged on the dorsal side 

 of the body; these are not found at this stage, at least in the same region, 

 in any other group, and they are here found in both of the subfamilies. The 

 adult Caterpillar is remarkable for its generally onisciform shape, so that in 

 the Lycaeninae at least they are recognizable at a glance". - - - „In the 

 other subfam., the Lemoniinae, there is greator variability of form, but we 

 never find any with the great elongation of the body characteristic of all the 

 other familles". - - - 



„The chrysalids of the two groups agree with each other again and differ 

 from those of all others in their compactness and brevity, while at the same 

 time they offer one peculiarity, found in no other group and which holds here 

 throughout both; viz., the head cannot be seen from above, being bent over 

 and forming a part of the ventral surface only; sometimes the same is true 



of the last abdominal segment". „Add to this the character long known 



to be peculiar to them, the close girding of the chrysalis, with the flatness 

 and uniformity of the ventral surface, characters which with rare exceptions 

 they share together and in which they differ from all other butterflies, and it 



