170 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



Sub-famUy AMATHUSIINJE. 



MorphidcB (part) Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 332 (1851). 



Morpldnce (part) Butler, Cistula Ent. i. p. 3 (1869). Kirby, Syn. Catal. D. Lep. p. 115 (1871), 



Marshall and de Xice'ville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 281 (1883). 

 Nymphalince (part) Bates, Journ. Ent. 1864, p. 176. Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 26 (1881). 

 Nymphalince (group Morphlna), Distant, Ehop. Malajana, p. 67 (1882). 

 MorphidcE (sect. B.), Staudinger and Schatz, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 182 (1889). 



Imago. — Wings broad, ample, varying in outline ; generally ocellated on the 

 underside. Forewing with, the costal vein generally slightly and gradually dilated 

 at the base ; first subcostal veinlet long, emitted before end of the cell ; second sub- 

 costal four-branched ; cell short and very broad, completely closed ; median and 

 submedian both with a basal more or less slightly-projected approximating tumid 

 angle, that of the submedian in typical Zeuxidia (Luxerii) being developed into a 

 short spur. Hindwing with the cell area rather narrow, partly closed, or entirely 

 open, the discocellular veinlet appearing as a third subcostal branch ; no prediscoidal 

 cell; the inner margin of the wing broadly channelled, and enclosing the entire 

 abdomen ; the male furnished with a glandular patch or patches of scales, and tufts 

 of overlapping hairs on various positions of the upperside of this wing, or with 

 a glandular tufted pouch along the submedian or internal vein. Body robust, seldom 

 elongate ; thorax woolly ; the abdomen sometimes furnished with subanal lateral 

 glandular tufts of hairs, or with basal glandular patches of scales ; head usually 

 small, tufted ; eyes large, prominent, naked ; palpi slender, somewhat elongate, 

 erect, or sometimes porrect, the front edge not dilated, clothed in front with dense 

 appressed hairs, above with longer hairs ; antennae long, slender, with a lengthened, 

 very gradually slender club ; forelegs of male small, brush-like ; those of the female 

 larger, longer, and less hairy ; anal claspers elongate, narrow. 



Caterpillar. — Cylindrical, of nearly equal thickness throughout ; hairy ; head 

 (in Amathusia) furnished with two palmated processes, and anal segment (in Ama- 

 thusia and Discophora) with two fleshy setose points. In Xanthotasnia (according 

 to Mr. W. Doherty, P. Boston N. H. S. 1890, 60) the larva is not hairy. 



Chrysalis. — Elongate, boat-shaped, head-piece prolonged into aji acuminated 

 bifid point. 



Egg. — " Globular, translucent, hard, not so high as wide, smooth (Discophora, 

 Thaumantis), or obscurely facetted (Clerome) " (Doherty, J. A. S. Bengal, 1886, 

 109). 



Habits op Imago. — According to the observations made by Mr. W. Doherty, 

 " they are all crepuscular. Except Clerome and Xanthotaenia, they have the curious 

 habit of flying up and down a given space for an hour about sunset and sunrise, as 

 if taking a ' constitutional,' never varying a hair's breadth from their given ' beat,' 



