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6. Median nervure of fore wings scarcely swollen at tlie base, or if swollen, 



decreasing uniformly in size from the base to the first divarication of 

 the nervure 10. 



7. Submedian vein greatly and abruptly swollen at the base. .Coeuouyiupha. 



7. Submedian vein not at all or but slightly swollen at the base 8. 



8. Hind wings without ocellate spots beneath Megisto. 



8. Hind wings furnished with ocellate spots beneath 9. 



9. Spots of under surface of hind wings in the lower subcostal and lower 



median interspaces equal and conspicuously larger than the rest 



(first two species of ) Cissia. 



9. Spots above mentioned neither equal, nor larger than the others 



Neonymplia. 



10. Eyes distinctly pilose 13. 



10. Eyes naked or very inconspicuously pilose .... 11. 



11. Club of antennae insensibly merging into the stalk 12. 



11. Club of antennae distinct Erebia. 



13. Basal half of hind wings marbled beneath Cercyonis. 



12. Basal half of hind wings not marbled beneath , . .(last species of )Cissia. 



13. Hind wings distinctly dentate or angulated at the upper median ner- 



vule Enodia. 



13. Hind wings entire Satyrodes. 



14. Eyes hairy Gyroclieilus.* 



14. Eyes naked 15. 



15. Middle tibiae scarcely more than half as long as the middle femora 



Neominois. 



15. Middle tibiae almost as long as the middle femora Oeneis. 



16. Antennae naked ; fore wings elongated (Heliconidae) 1 7. 



16. Antennae scaled ; fore wings seldom elongated 22. 



17. Wings almost wholly diaphanous Hyinenitis. 



17. Wings scaled throughout 18. 



18. Cell of fore wings longer than extreme breadth of the wing 19. 



18. Cell of fore wings rather shorter than the breadth of the wing 21. 



19. Upper surface of hind wings with a postmesial series of light spots on a 



dark ground Apostraphia. 



19. Upper surface of hind wings with a postmesial black band on a fulvous 



ground 20. 



20. The atrophied recurrent nervule at the tip of the cell in fore wings, orig- 



inating between the two lower subcostal nervules Dyiiotliea. 



20. The atrophied recurrent nervule at tip of the cell in fore wings arising 



between the lowest subcostal and upper median nervules. .Mecliailitis. 



21. Middle of the median inters^iaces of the fore wings furnished with white 



spots Anosia. 



* The characters here given may be insufficient to distinguish Gyrocheilup, which I liavo not 

 been able to examine wlicn prepaiiiig this table. 



