no LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



and some few other genera in a heterogeneous family called 

 Eurytelidce, which is now abolished. The species are of 

 rather small size for Nymphalidce, measuring only about an 

 inch and a half, or two inches at most, across the wings, and 

 are confined to Africa and the East Indies. The genus 

 Eurytela (Boisduval) has rather short, broad, denticulated 

 wings, and the fore-wings have usually a slight projection on 

 the hind-margin a little below the tip, and a slighter one 

 above the hinder angle, and between these the middle of the 

 hind-margin is slightly and regularly concave. The hind-wings 

 are also emarginat^ in the black and white E. fiilgurata (Bd.), 

 from Madagascar. They vary considerably in colour; the 

 commonest African species are E. dryope (Cramer), and E. 

 hiarbas (Drury). These are brown Butterflies, with a con- 

 spicuous sub marginal band, orange-tawny in the former, and 

 white in the latter species, this band being broadest towards 

 the anal angle of the hind-wings, and tapering gradually towards 

 the costa of the fore-wings, which it does not reach. They are 

 described by Mr. Trimen as sporting around bushes. One of 

 the Eastern species,^, castelnaui, Felder, from Malacca, Borneo, 

 &c., is of a beautiful blue on the upper side of the wings. 



The genus Ergo/is, Boisduval, has broader and less dentated 

 hind-wings, though the hind-margin of the fore-wings is always 

 concave in the middle. The East Indian species are generally 

 brown above, with dark transverse zig-zag lines, and the under 

 side is brown or brownish-red, with dark transverse lines. The 

 dilated costal nervure will distinguish this genus from Pseud- 

 ergolis, which it much resembles. Except in colour, it also much 

 resembles Eurytela, and the larvae of both are spiny, with 

 bifid spines on the head. The species of Ergolis frequent open 

 bushy places. The African species are brown, often more or 

 less suffused and banded with blue. 



Hypanis, Boisduval, the third genus of this little group, is 

 found, like the two preceding genera, both in Africa and India, 



