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beyond, and two or three on the hind-wings ; in some species 

 the females are marked with white, instead of fulvous. In 

 colour and markings, though not in shape, they greatly resemble 

 Neptis, also an East Indian genus. The wings are very short 

 and broad, the fore-wings being scarcely longer than the hind- 

 wings, and the latter are obtusely angulated in the middle of 

 the hind-margin, where there is a projecting angle ; the ex- 

 tremity of the inner-margin is slightly sloped outwards, so as to 

 form almost a right angle at the anal angle of the wing. 



S. hyppoda (Cramer), the commonest Indian species, flies 

 very swiftly, but often settles ; its larva feeds on nettle. 



Hypanartia^ Hiibner, is a Tropical American genus, resem- 

 bling Symbrtnthia, but larger (measuring two or three inches 

 in expanse), and with longer fore-wings, which are generally 

 strongly concave in the middle ; the hind-wings are more rect- 

 angular, with a strong tooth or short tail at the outer angle. 

 They are usually tawny, with the apical region of the fore-wings 

 brown, and spotted with white or tawny. In H. lethe (Fabr.), 

 a tawny species, the fore-wings are not concave; while H. 

 dione (Latr.) is a brown insect with darker transverse bands, 

 and a rather longer tail, which might easily be mistaken for a 

 species of Megalura at first sight, but for the concavity on the 

 fore-wings. There are one or two species found in Africa, 

 Mauritius, &c., which have a shorter interval and an additional 

 tooth or tail, between the principal tail and the anal angle of 

 the hind-wings. One of these, H. delius (Drury), which in- 

 habits West Africa, is brown and tawny, having considerable 

 resemblance to the South American H. lethe; while other 

 species, f jund in Africa and in the island of Nossi-Be, near 

 Madagascar, Mauritius, Bourbon, &c., much resemble a rather 

 small pale-tailed Pyrameis atalanta. Mr. Trimen states that 

 their habits are very similar to those of Pyrameis. The larvae 

 feed on nettle. 



