Genus Timetes 



Early Stages. Unknown. 



The Leopard-spot is found occasionally in Florida, but quite 

 ommonly in the Antilles, Mexico, and Central America. 



Genus TIMETES, Boisduval 

 (The Dagger-wings) 



Butterfly. The palpi are moderately long, thickly clothed with 

 scales, the last joint elongated and pointed. The antennae have a 

 well-developed club. The fore wings and the hind wings have 

 the cell open. In the fore wing the sub- 

 costal vein, which has five branches, 

 emits the first nervule well before the 

 end of the cell, the second a little be- 

 yond it, and the third and fourth near 

 together, before the apex of the wing. 

 The third median nervule of the hind 

 wing is greatly produced and forms the 

 support of the long tail which adorns 

 this wing. Between the end of the sub- 

 median vein and the first median nervule 

 is another lobe-like prolongation of the 

 outer margin of the wing. The butter- 

 flies are characterized for the most part 

 by dark upper surfaces, with light under 

 surfaces marked with broad bands and 

 lines of varying intensity of color. They 

 are easily distinguished from the butter- 

 flies of all other genera of the Nymphalidae by the remarkable 

 tail-like appendage of the hind wing, giving them somewhat the 

 appearance of miniature Papilionidae. 



Early Stages. Nothing of note has been recorded of their 

 early stages which may be accepted as reliable, and there is an 

 opportunity here for study and research. 



There are about twenty-five species belonging to the genus, 

 all found within the tropical regions of America. Four species 

 are occasionally taken in the extreme southern portions of Florida 

 and Texas. They are all, however, very common in the An- 

 tilles, Mexico, and more southern lands. 



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FIG. 104. Neuration of the 

 genus Timetes. 



