214 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



IV. MELANITIS GROUP. 



A group of small extent, consisting of a few East Indian, 

 African, and American species, measuring three inches and 

 upwards across the wings, which are brown, usually more or 

 less marked with fulvous on the fore-wings at least, and with 

 the hind-margin of the hind-wings nearly rectangular, with 

 a strong projection at the outer angle. Melanitis leda (Linn.), 

 and the numerous closely-allied Indian and African forms, 

 usually have two more or less developed ocellated spots near 

 the tip of the fore-wings. Schatz and Rober consider the 

 Tropical American genera of this group somewhat aberrant. 

 The type of one of these, Tisiphone hercyna, Hiibner, is a black 

 Butterfly, with large white spots on the apical region of the 

 fore-wings, and with the hind-wings but little angulated. 

 Another remarkable genus we have figured, viz., 



GENUS (LEROIS. 



Carols, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 56 (1816); Schatz 



and Rober, Exot. Schmett, ii., p. 206 (1889). 

 CcerouS) Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 366 (1851). 



C^ROIS CHORIN^EUS. 



(Plate XXXVI.} 

 Papilio chorinaus, Fabr., Syst. Ent, p. 484, no. 182 (1775); 



Donov., Nat. Rep., iii., pi. 104 (1825). 



Papilio arcesilaus, Sulz., Gesch. Ins., pi. 14, fig. 4 (1776); 

 Cramer, Pap. Exot., iv., pi. 294, A.-D. (1780); Stoll. 

 Suppl. Cramer, pi. vi. ; figs i, la (1787, transf.). 

 Satyrus chorinceus, Godart, Enc, Meth., ix., p. 480, no. 10 



(1823). 

 Carols chorinauS) Staud., Exot. Schmett., i., p. 221, pi. 77 



(1887). 

 Carols is a small South American genus, and is recognisable 



