14 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTOPY. 



In D. decorata (Hewitson), found in the Aru Islands, the male 

 is reddish-tawny, with a tawny oblique band on the fore-wings, 

 beyond which the apex is black, and the female is uniform 

 yellowish-tawny, except the broad black tip of the fore-wings, 

 and the sub-marginal black spots of the hind-wings. Both 

 species are elegantly marked beneath with pale lines and spots 

 on a tawny or reddish-brown ground. 



The genus Tavi/a, Westwood, has the hind-wings rounded 

 or slightly dentated, but hardly lobate. The species inhabit 

 India and the Indo-Malayan region generally, and measure 

 about an inch and a half across the wings. They are brown, 

 red or banded, with unicolorous hind-wings, and many of them 

 are of a beautiful purplish-red colour, with spots and streaks 

 on the under-surface of a dull metallic blue. In some of the 

 species there is a large and conspicuous white or pale blue 

 spot on the inner-margin of the fore-wings above. 



Abisara, Felder, contains rather large brown species, often 

 with broad white or pale bands on the fore-wings at least. On 

 the hind-wings some of these have a long tail, and are not 

 unlike species of the Satyrid genus Lethe, Hiibner. They are 

 found in the East Indies and Africa. Allied to these is a 

 rather isolated species, Saribia tepahi (Boisduval), the only 

 Butterfly belonging to the I.emoniida, which is found in Mada- 

 gascar, while it is remarkable for being the only Old World 

 species with three tails, or rather, two, in addition to the lobe at 

 the anal angle. It is a brown Butterfly, expanding from i ^ 

 to \y inches, and its diverging tails, though not its colour, 

 give it something of the appearance of the Tropical American 

 genus, Helicopis. 



The Erydnida of the Old World are a small but interesting 

 group, and are one of the sections of Butterflies that require a 

 thorough revision of the genera and species. The various 

 existing genera, most of which we have noticed, are not in all 



