138 LEPIDOPTERA. 



includes small brown butterflies, often not exceeding an inch in 

 expanse, with a large black eye in a yellow ring at the tip of the 

 fore wings, with two white pupils. 



The larger and handsomer South American Satyrince belong to 

 the genera Taygetis, Hiibn., and Pronophifa, Westw., and their 

 allies. The latter are most numerous in Western South America. 

 They are brown insects, with more or less dentated hind wings, 

 and are generally adorned with tawny markings. 



Several of the most recent writers include the East Indian 

 genus Elymnias, Hiibn., with the Satyrince. The species of this 

 genus measure about three inches across the wings, and they have 

 all a superficial resemblance to different species of Danaince and 

 Satyrince, from which their more or less dentated wings, which are 

 generally irregularly mottled with brown or grey beneath, would 

 at once distinguish them. 



SUB-FAMILY III. Morphince. 



Hind wings with the discoidal cell open \ size large ; wings 

 broad, rounded, or very slightly scalloped ; hind wings sometimes 

 lobed at the anal angle, but never tailed ; wings generally adorned 

 beneath with a row of moderate-sized eyes ; flight diurnal ; larvae 

 with forked tails. 



The Morphince are nearly always of a blue, brown, white, or 

 tawny colour, and are exclusively confined to the East Indies and 

 tropical America. Several genera are met with in the former 

 region, but the typical genus Morpho, Fabr., is exclusively confined 

 to the latter. 



The species of Tenaris, Hiibn., are very singular-looking butter- 

 flies, brown or white, according to the species, with two large black 

 eyes with white pupils, and more or less surrounded with yellow, 

 on each hind wing, most distinct on the under surface. They are 

 confined to the Papuan Islands and the Moluccas. 



Amathusia Phidippus, Linn., is a brown butterfly with a large 

 lobe on the hind wings ; it is found in Java. 



The genus Thaumantis, Hiibn., which is met with in India, 

 China, and Malayana, is nearly allied to Morpho. The species are 

 of large size, with rounded wings ; and several, such as T. Diores, 

 Doubl., are brown, with a large suffused blue spot in the middle of 

 each wing. One of the finest North Indian species is T. Camudeva, 

 Westw., which is dark brown, dull red, and bluish white above, 

 and yellow beneath. 



