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dentated, and with a short tooth rather below the middle of 

 the hind-margin. The wings are black, with a broad trans- 

 verse white or pale green band running across both pairs of 

 wings, and sometimes extending to the base and inner-margin 

 on the hind-wings. It does not reach the costa of the fore- 

 wings, but parallel to its upper end is an oblique stripe from 

 the costa, and towards the tip is another small spot. On the 

 under side the pale markings are more extended, and the dark 

 spaces around and between them are intersected by red stripes. 

 In shape and colouring these Butterflies resemble Victorina 

 and Adelpha. 



The species of Pyrrhogyra are common and widely distri- 

 buted in Tropical America. "They frequent narrow sunny 

 openings in the lofty and humid forests, and have a sailing and 

 wheeling flight, soaring rapidly to the tops of the trees, if rudely 

 disturbed whilst hovering nearer the ground. The larvae of 

 Pyrrhogyra tiphus and P. nearea (Linn.) resemble in shape and 

 armature those of Epicalia (Catonephele) and CaUithea, having 

 two long verticillate cephalic spines, and numerous shorter ab- 

 dominal spines with radiating smaller spines at their tip." (Bates) 



GENUS MARPESIA. 



Marpesia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 47 (1816). 

 Type, M. eleucha, Hiibner. 



There is a small American group of tailed Nymphalida 

 comprising the two genera Ti metes t Boisduval, and Marpesia, 

 Hiibner. They agree in the following characters : the long 

 slender antennae, with an oval club ; the long, thickly scaled 

 palpi ; the open wing-cells ; the short spur at the base of the 

 median nervure on the fore-wings ; and in the long tailed 

 hind-wings. They are generally brown, with pale bands, or 

 tawny, with brown bands ; but they differ considerably in shape. 

 Timetes has short triangular fore-wings, rarely pointed, at 



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