Lepidoptera. 59 



94. Five veins extending from the cell to the costa in fore wing ............. 95 



Four veins from cell to costa in fore wing, the fifth radial ending decidedly 



below wing-tip ................................................... 96 



95. Second branch of media in hind wing arising decidedly nearer to the first 



than the third medial. (Ethmia.) ........................ ETHMIOXE 



Second medial vein in hind wing arising nearer the third medial, or rarely mid- 

 way between the first and third. (Agnepteryx, Depressaria, Epicallima.) 



CECOPHORUXE, part 



96. Fourth and fifth radial veins stalked; ocelli absent or vestigial (see couplet 



95) ........................................... CECOPHORID./E, part 



All veins in fore wing arising separately, if the fourth and fifth radials are 

 rarely stalked, the ocelli are large (see couplet 90) .YPONOMEUTID^E, part 



97. Radius in fore wing five-branched, all arising from the discal cell; eyes strongly 



lashed in front; antennae separated at base by a distance greater than half 

 the width of eyes, usually hooked at tip; small, rarely rather large, stout- 

 bodied butterflies of rapid, erratic flight. Skippers (Pamphila, Nisoniades, 

 Eftdamus, Megathymus.) (PI. 10, figs. 213, 219, 237) ..... HESPERIED^ 

 Fore wings with some of the radials stalked or absent; eyes rarely lashed; 

 antennae closer together, the antennal club never pointed and recurved 

 at tip ........................................................... 98 



S8. Front pair of legs, at least in the male, more or less strikingly different from 

 the other pairs; usually not used for walking; the claws of their tarsi, when 

 present, never toothed nor split .................................... 99 



Front legs like the other pairs, or if slightly reduced in size and structure, with 

 the claws toothed or bifid ........................................ 108 



39. Front tarsus without claws in either sex (PI. 10, figs. 217, 218); front legs 

 much reduced in size in both sexes, their tarsi in the male with only one 

 joint; in the female usually with five joints ......................... 100 



Front tarsus of female with claws, that of the male sometimes with a single 

 claw; front legs never much reduced in size. (PL 10, figs 214, 215.) . . . .106 



100. Discal cell of hind wings closed ...................................... 101 



Discal cell of hind wings open ..................................... 105 



101. Front foot of female ending in a corrugated knob; subcostal vein in fore 



wing forked at the extreme base; antennae not scaled above; generally large 

 butterflies with rather bold contrasting coloration; mainly tropical. ( Anosia 

 (=Danais) [A. archippus, Milkweed-butterfly]) (PL 10, fig. 235). 



(EUPLCEID&) LYMNADIDJE 



Front tarsus of female present, though more or less abbreviated. (PL 10, 

 fig. 218.) ....................................................... 102 



102. Fore wings twice as long as broad .................................... 103 



Fore wings much less than twice as long as broad ...................... 104 



103. Antenna? clothed with scales, at least above; front tarsus of female four- 



jointed; wings opaque; medium-sized, brightly colored butterflies with 

 elongate oval wings; mainly tropical. (Apostraphia, Heliconius.) 



Antennas naked, wings often in great part translucent and destitute of scales; 

 wings elongate, oval; mainly tropical. (Dircenna, Ithomia.) 



