NYMPHALID.E. 1 1 



spines ; sometimes smooth, with horns on the head, and a 

 forked tail. 



Pupa. Generally suspended by the tail, often more or less 

 metallic ; very rarely found on the surface of the ground. 



Imago. Of large or moderate size, rarely small ; if slenderly 

 formed, generally with rather long wings ; colours very varied ; 

 wings often marked with ocellated spots, especially on the under 

 surface. Front legs in both sexes much smaller and weaker 

 than the others, those in the male with only one or two tarsal 

 joints, occasionally obsolete ; those of the female usually with 

 four or five joints. 



SUB-FAMILY I. DANAIN^E. 



E.?g. Much higher than wide, leathery, radiate, with nu- 

 merous broad flattened ribs and distinct cross-lines, reticulate 

 over a small area at the apex. 



Larva. Smooth, with long fleshy appendages, feeding chiefly 

 on AristolochicR. 



Pupa. Short, stout, often metallic. 



Imago. Of large size ; basal joint of palpi short ; wings always 

 ample, generally long, sometimes very broad and rounded, the 

 wing-cells closed ; sub-median nervure of the fore-wings forked 

 at the base; wings generally entire, sometimes slightly scal- 

 loped, but never tailed. Male with conspicuous patches of 

 raised scales on various parts of the wings, and in many species 

 with conspicuous anal tufts of hair; female with flattened, club- 

 shaped tarsi. 



NOTE. This group was divided by Mr. Moore, in the " Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London " for 1883, into a great number of genera, 

 of which we have only space to mention a few of the most representative. 



Range, The Danain& are most numerously represented 



