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sonesia, Distant. The few species of Chersonesia known are 

 found in India, Malacca, Java, &c., and hardly measure an 

 inch and a half in expanse. They vary in colour from pale 

 ochraceous to fulvous, with transverse brown bands, and the 

 projecting tooth or tail of the hind-margin of the hind-wings is 

 nearly obsolete, and the lobe at the anal angle wholly so. 



GENUS LIMENITIS. 



LimenitiS) Fabricius in Illiger, Mag. Insekt, vi., p. 281 (1807) ; 

 Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 274(1850); Schatz, Exot. 

 Schmett., ii., p. 157 (1888). 



Type, L. Camilla (Linn). 



Eyes hairy ; antennae long, thickening gradually from near 

 the middle almost to the apex, the club being slender and 

 elongated; palpi not approximating at the tip, bristly, the 

 basal joint shortest and nearly oval, the second very long, and 

 the terminal joint elongate-ovate, ending suddenly in a point ; 

 fore-wings rather longer than broad, the hind-margin slightly 

 oblique, about as long as the inner-margin; hind-wings rounded, 

 the hind-margins slightly denticulated ; abdominal groove 

 well marked ; legs alike in both sexes, the front pair short and 

 slender, the tarsus consisting of a single joint ending in a small 

 claw, the other tarsi with two claws, and a small pulvillus 

 between them. 



The larva has a bifid head, obtuse fleshy projections on the 

 back and numerous shorter spines, fringed with hair (Plate iii., 

 fig. 7). The pupa has also a bifid head. 



Limenitis is at present a very ill-defined genus, and is used 

 to include a number of species from Europe, Asia, the 

 Eastern Archipelago and North America, which differ greatly in 

 structure and neuration. Of the three European species which 

 are generally referred to it, L. Camilla is the only one which 

 has hairy eyes, and the little group represented by L. Camilla 



