BELENOIS. l6 1 



nervures, generally coalescing into a band at the tip of the 

 fore-wings. Larva clothed with short hairs. 



Pupa. "Head with frontal process large and curved up- 

 wards ; a dorsal series of prominent tubercles (larger on 

 thorax) along middle line of back, and two laterally-project- 

 ing claw-shaped processes on each side of the basal half of 

 abdomen" (Trimen). 



The type of this genus is the West African M. rhodope 

 (Fabricius), in which the male has yellow fore- wings and white 

 hind-wings; and the female is white, with a reddish spot at the 

 base of th? fore-wings. The hind-margins are spotted with 

 black on the nervures, and the tip of the fore-wing is narrowly 

 bordered with black. 



GENUS BELENOIS. 



Beknois, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 92 (1816); Butler, 

 Cist. Ent. i. p. 50(1870) ; Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 61 

 (1886). 



Antennae with an oval flattened club; wings shorter, broader, 

 more scalloped, and more densely scaled than in the last genus; 

 costa straight, and very slightly serrated. Sub-costal nervure 

 of the fore-wings four-branched, the fourth branch well marked; 

 disco-cellular nervules oblique, the lower one shorter on all the 

 wings than the middle one. 



The type is B. calypso, Drury, a common West African 

 Butterfly. It measures from 2 to 2^ inches across the 

 wings, which are white, with a broad black border, spotted 

 with white on the under side of the fore-wings, and a black 

 bar running from the base of the costa of the fore-wings, 

 which is produced into a transverse bar at the end of the 

 ceil. The hind-wings are tinged with yellow beneath, and are 

 bordered with a row of connected yellow spots, edged on each 

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