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Genus CETHOSIA. 



This genus includes several pretty large and showy 

 insects, several of which have some resemblance, in 

 the wide expansion of their wings compared with 

 their limited breadth in the direction of the body, 

 to the genera immediately preceding, while others 

 shew a decided affinity to Argynnis. The greater 

 part of them are natives of America, but others occur 

 in the eastern countries of the old world. The palpi 

 are contiguous below, but diverge at the extremity, 

 and terminate in a slender acicular joint ; antennae 

 with an oblong club ; inferior wings embracing the 

 abdomen; claws simple. The caterpillars appear 

 to be generally spiny, and to resemble those of 

 Argynnis. 



