22 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



SUB-FAMILY III. LEMONIIN^E. 



Egg. Deeply reticulated and filamentosed. 



Larva. More or less cylindrical, fasciculate. 



Pupa. Attached by the tail, and sometimes also by a girth 

 lound the middle of the body. 



Imago. Wings generally short and rounded; occasionally the 

 fore-wings are rather long or pointed, and the hind- wings are 

 sometimes dentated, or, if long, are frequently tailed. Wings 

 very various in colour (rarely vitreous), and with no characteristic 

 patterns except within generic limits. Fore-wings with the sub- 

 costal nervure four-branched, except in a few genera, most of 

 which used to be classed with the Nemeobiincz (Eurybta, Meso- 

 semia,) &c.), and in Isapsis, in which it is three-branched. 

 (This character, however, is not constant, for Mesosemia has 

 the sub-costal nervure four-branched in some species.) Disco- 

 cellular nervules generally more or less imperfectly developed. 

 Hind-wings with the basal nervure well developed. 



Kange. This extensive group is entirely confined to Tropical 

 America, with the exception of a very few species which are met 

 with in the United States, or which extend beyon-d the Tropical 

 portions of South America. 



NOTE. The species of this Sub-family have been divided in'.o sub- 

 ordinate groups by Schatz and Rober, according to the number and posi- 

 tion of the branches of the sub-costal nervure and other characters of minor 

 importance. But with the exception of Stalachtis, which seems to be suffi- 

 ciently distinct to be reinstated as a Sub-family, into which it was originally 

 formed by Bates, we are not inclined to regard these distinctions as of special 

 importance. Even the number of sub-costal branches is not always constant 

 in the larger genera. 



The Lemoniince are very numerous and dissimilar, and we 

 cannot attempt to do more than discuss a limited number of 

 the most important ancl characteristic genera. Some of the 



