172 LEPIDOPTEEA INDICA. 



AMATHDSiiXiE — (ccntitmed). Mokpkinm! — (continued). 



Habits op Isuoo. — Crepuscular ; affecting shady Habits of Imago. — Diurnal, flying in the hottest 



undergrowth in forests. sunshine. 



Laeva. — Hairy ; head with or without two promi- Larva. — Hairy ; head and anal segment with or 



nent processes on vertex ; anal segment with without very short, obtuse, inconspicuous 



two elongate proceases. processes. 



Pupa. — Elongate, boat-shaped ; head-piece pro- Pupa. — Stout ; head-piece broad, and with widely 



longed into an acuminated bifid-point. separated short points. 



The characteristics of the Amathusiin^;, as above defined, we consider amply 

 distinctive for justifying tlieir entire separation from the true Morphis.e, with which 

 they have hitherto been mostly included, and have therefore adopted the oldest 

 generic name for their designation. 



In the BEASSOLTNiE, the American allied sub-family, the forewing, in all the 

 known genera, has both the first and second subcostals free, and the third subcostal 

 three-branched ; the hindwing also having a prediscoidal cell ; the antennae being 

 lono-, and in Opsiphanes with a stout club. In the genus Galigo, the males are 

 furnished with secondary sexual characters, the hindwing of the male of G. Amphi- 

 medon possessing a glandular-tufted pouch along the base of the submedian vein, and 

 it also has a large prominent glandular patch of scales near the end of this vein, 

 besides also having a glandular patch of scales on the side of the abdomen. In the 

 genus O'psiphanes, the hindwing of the male of 0. Xanthus and 0. Cassise possesses 

 a subcostal glandular tuft, and a tufted pouch along the submedian vein, in addition 

 to a glandular patch of scales on the side of the abdomen. The larvje of the Brasso- 

 linje are elongate, thickest about the middle, minutely hairy, or nearly nude, the head 

 being furnished with two lengthened spiny processes on the vertex, and two or three 

 shorter lateral processes, and the anal segment with two elongated fleshy processes. 

 The pupae are somewhat stout, the thorax broad and truncate in front, the head-piece 

 with two short widely separated points. 



Key to the Indian Geneea of Amathusiinj:. 



A. — Rindxcing with the diacoidal cell partially closed by a short lower discocellular 



veiulet. Foremng with the second subcostal veinlet four-hranched. 



a. — Forewing with the iipper median veinlet emitting a short spur beyond 



the cell. 



a. — Hindwing of male with a two subcostal glandular tufted patches, and 



a glandular tufted pouch along the iul/median vein . Zeuxidia. 



h. — Forewing without the upper submedian !<pur. 



a. — Hindwing of male with a glandular tufted pouch along the submedian 



vein Amathcxidu. 



B. — Uindicing u-iih the discoidal cell open, but apparently partialhj closed by a short 



