48 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



We may mention some of the characteristic genera of each 

 division : 



CURFTARIA : Poritia> Cure/is, Zephyrus, Gerydus, Neopithe- 

 cops; also Eumcztis and Trichonis in Tropical America, 

 Ogyris in Australia, and the Liptenintz in Africa. 



CASTALARIA : Castalius^ Catochrysops, Lampides, Ly canes- 

 thes. 



APHNARIA: Splndasis^ Sithon, Hypolycana> Ambly podia, 

 Deudorix, Loxura. 



But this division is only provisional, being founded on the 

 Butterflies of a small area, and it brings together forms more 

 unlike in some cases than those which it separates. 



I shall now proceed to enumerate the more interesting 

 genera of Lyc&nince, in some detail. 



A. Costal nervure three-branched.* 



GENUS THECLA. 



Thecla, Fabricius in Illiger, Mag. Insekt. vi. p. 286 (1807); 

 Leach, Edinburgh Encycl. ix. p. 129 (1815); Westwood, 

 Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 481 (1852); Schatz & Rober, 

 Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 264 (1892). 



The original types of Thecla were T. betulce, T. spini, and 

 T. quercus; and Dr. Scudder and other recent authors have 

 agreed with me in accepting Papilio spini, Denis and Schif- 

 fermiiller, as the type. 



This genus includes our smaller tailed Hair-streaks, of 

 which there are three species in Britain, and several others 

 on the Continent, and in Northern Asia. Most of these are 



* As this character, besides being subject to exceptions, would separat* 

 closely-allied genera, I do not regard it ar of Sub-family importance. 



