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coBcave, lower slender and convex ; middle median veinlefc at a considerable distance 

 before lower end of the cell. Ilindwing sliort, broad, triangulate; apex and exterior 

 margin very convex and oblique ; cell closed by a slender lower discocellularveinlet; 

 precostal vein abruptly incurved toward the tip. Body robust ; palpi stout, 

 flattened, densely clothed w ith short hairs, apical joint very short and obtuse ; 

 antennse very long, club stout; eyes naked. Type. — Ghalinga Elwesi (Limenitis 

 Elwesi, Oberthur, Bull. Ent. Soc. France, 1883, p. 128 ; id. Etud. Ent. 1884, p. 15, 

 .pi. 2, fig. 4, c?. Habitat. E. Tibet; Yunan. 



Genus LiTiNGA. — Male. Foreiuing triangular, exterior margin scalloped ; first 

 subcostal branch emitted at one-fourth before end of tlie cell, second at nearly 

 one-fourth beyond the end of cell ; raiddle discocellular outwardly-oblique, 

 concave, lower discocellular recurved; middle median emitted at some distance 

 before lower end of the cell. Hindwing small, triangularly-ovate ; anterior margin 

 slightly arched, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique, slightly convex, scalloped, 

 anal angle rounded ; cell area rather narrow and long, open ; radial emitted from 

 lower subcostal at an equal distance from its base as the latter is from the costal. 

 Bodij moderate ; palpi densely but laxly hairy to tip, apex slender ; antennal club 

 elongated ; eyes naked. Type. Litinga Cottini (Limenitis Cottini, Oberthur, Etud. 

 Entom. 1884, p. 17, pi. 2, fig. 5, S ; Leech, Butt, of China, etc., p. 180, c? ? . 

 Habitat. E.Tibet; W.China. — Litinga mimwa (Limenitis mimica, Poujade, Bull. 

 Soc. Entom. France, 1886, p. 200. Habitat. Moupin, W. China. 



Genus Limenitis. Fabricius, Ilhger's Mag. vi. p. 281 (1807). Limenitis (part), 

 Ochsenheimer. Hubner. Boisduval.— Male. Wings short. Foreiving subtriangular; 

 costa slightly arched at the base, and thence nearly straight to end, apex obtuse ; 

 exterior margin almost erect, uneven ; posterior margin straight ; first subcostal 

 emitted fully one-third, and second at one-ninth before end of cell ; middle disco- 

 cellular concave, lower undulated, slender; middle median emitted immediately 

 before lower end of cell. Hindwing broad, obtusely ovate ; costa broadly lobate at 

 base, thence straight to end, exterior margin convex and slightly scalloped, anal 

 angle rounded ; precostal vein long, incurved ; cell area broad and short, open. 

 Body somewhat slender, hairy; palpi somewhat stout, laxly hairy, apex robust, 

 conical ; antennae with a well-formed lengthened club ; eyes naked. Catebpillae. 

 Somewhat cylindrical. Head slightly cleft and spinous at vertex. Third, fourth, 

 sixth, eleventh, and twelfth segment with two subdorsally disposed elongated fleshy 

 tuberculate spiny processes ; other segments with minute similarly disposed spines. 

 Chrysalis. With broad, much elevated anterio-dorsal prominence and arched 

 thorax; head-piece obtusely bifid. Type. L. Drusilla (Camilla, Fabr.). — Limenitis 

 Drusilla (Pap. Drusilla, Bergstrasser, Nomen. iii. pi. 67, figs. 5, 6 (1779). Lim. 

 Drusilla, Kirby, Allen's Nat. Hist. Butt. i. p. 146 (1895). Pap. Camilla, Wien. 



