46 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY, 



GENUS NYMPHIDIUM. 

 Nymphidium^ Fabricius, in Iliiger, Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 286 



1807); Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 447 (1851); 



Godman and Salvin, Biol. Centrali-Americana, Lepid. 



Rhop. i. p. 470 (1886); Schatz & Rober, Lepid. Exot. 



ii. p. 254 (1892). 



This is a very large genus, comprising nearly 100 species, 

 which will, no doubt, be sub divided sooner or later. They 

 are stouter insects than Lemonias, with longer and more pointed 

 fore-wings, and the hind-wings sometimes produced, and oc- 

 casionally even lobate, at the anal angle. The colour, how- 

 ever, is very different and characteristic, usually consisting of a 

 broad white or yellow band, commencing on the inner-margin 

 of the hind- wings, and occupying more or less of the centre of 

 the wings, till, towards the middle or apex of the fore-wings it 

 tapers and ceases. The borders are brown, often spotted with 

 white and orange-tawny. Of course there are variations in the 

 arrangement of the colours, but this is a fair sketch of the 

 most characteristic pattern. One or two of the larger species 

 are remarkably like some species of the genus Adelpha in 

 the NymphalintB, the size, markings, and pattern being almost 

 identical. In other cases, chiefly among the smaller species, 

 the pale colour occupies almost the whole of the wings, except 

 a narrow border. 



The type of the genus is 



NYMPHIDIUM CARICjE. 



Papilio cariccz, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i. p. 484, no. 158 

 (1758), id. Mus. Ludov. Ulr. p. 324 (1764); Clerck, 

 Icones, pi. 20, fig. 2 (1764); Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 

 170, fig. E (1777); Sepp, Pap. Surinam, iii. p. 145, 

 pi in (1852). 



Limnas subtilis carictz, Hiibner, Sammlung Exot. Schmett. i. 

 pi. 30 (1805?). 



