EUNICA. Ill 



but differs from them in the nearly entire margins of the wings, 

 which are fulvous, with black markings toward the base, costa, 

 and hind-margins ; the under surface of the hind-wings is buff, 

 with black spots or white lines. Mr. Trimen describes the 

 South African species as frequenting grassy and bushy places 

 on the borders of woods, flying low, and not rapidly, and often 

 settling on the ground or on the herbage. 



GENERA ALLIED TO EUNICA. 



The Butterflies of this section stand between the Vanessa 

 and CatagrammcE) and are of moderate size, and usually of 

 splendid colours. 



With the exception of the genus Crenis^ Boisduval, which is 

 African, they are all confined to Tropical America. Most of 

 them are black or brown Butterflies, measuring two or three 

 inches across the wings, and splendidly adorned with blue, 

 green, yellow, white, or orange. Red, so usual a colour in 

 Catagramma and its allies, is rather uncommon in the present 

 group, and, where it does occur, it is generally confined to the 

 base of the under side of the fore-wings. Sometimes the latter 

 are more or less produced at the tip, with the hind margin 

 slightly concave beneath, and the hind-wings are rounded and 

 often slightly denticulated, but never tailed. They are insects of 

 strong flight, the males frequenting sunny places, or the banks 

 of streams, while the females, which are often very dissimilar, 

 and frequently much duller in colouring, conceal themselves 

 in the forest, and are much more rarely seen. Some are so 

 unl-ke the males as to have been placed in different genera, 

 before their relationship was discovered. The larvoe have 

 long branching spines on the head, in addition to the shorter 

 spines on the body. 



The genus Etmica^ Hiibner, is the most extensive of this group, 

 and is numerously represented in all parts of Tropical America 



