EURYTELID.E. 



PUPA. Suspended "by tall only : head pointed, bifid ; 

 several prominences on back. 



Includes but a few species comprised in four genera, one 

 of which (Biblis, Fab.) is represented in South America, 

 while the others are confined to Africa and Asia. 



This limited Family, in Doubleday and Westwood's 

 " Genera," is placed immediately after the SATYRID.E and 

 before the LIBYTHEID.E, and seems to form a very complete 

 link between these two groups, presenting the basal inflation 

 of the costal nervnre of fore-wings so characteristic of the 

 former, and an approach to the strikingly elongated palpi 

 and angulated wings of the latter group.* The EURYTELID.E 

 are rather dull-coloured butterflies, but our few species are 

 characterised by much elegance and delicacy of marking, 

 especially on the under-surface. Of the two South African 

 Genera, Hypanis is the more brightly-tinted. This Genus 

 would seem to affect open country ; Eurytela I have found 

 in woods. The flight of the latter is of moderate strength, 

 and usually confined to the neighbourhood of some particular 

 bush or tree in a sunny spot. 



Our two Genera, comprising but three species, may be 

 readily distinguished ; Eurytela having angulated fore-wings, 

 while in Hypanis the hind-margin of these wings has no 

 projection. 



Genus EURYTELA. 



Eurytela, Boisd. 

 Biblis (pars), Godt. 



IMAGO. Eyes hairy ; antennae with a gradually-formed, 

 slender, laterally flattened, obtuse-ending club. Wings 

 denticulated (rather acutely in hind-wing) : fore-wing angu- 

 lated on lower discoidal nervule, and more slightly so on 

 second median nervule ; groove formed by inner-margins of 

 hind-wings incomplete, but more developed than in Hypanis. 

 Abdomen rather short. 



The two known South African species are both butterflies 

 of a dark-brown or nearly black colour above, but may at 

 once be distinguished by the difference in hue of the pale 

 band which crosses the wings, which is orange-yellow in 

 E. Dry ope and pure-white in E. Hiarbas. 



* 1 am not aware that any species of Libythea has hitherto been found 

 in Southern Africa, but it is probable that L. fulgurata, Boisd., a native of 

 Madagascar, may inhabit the South-Eastern coast, nor is it unlikely that 

 other species may be discovered. 



