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C. Biuiaiia, /(/. I.e. vi. p. 11, pi. 8, fio-. 6, S (1881). Leech, Butt, of China, etc., i. 

 p. US (1894). Habitat. Moupin, W. China; Chang Yang, C. Cliina.— CV/Z/Hr/r/^^ 

 Salm (C. Biuldlia, Leech, I.e. p. 118 (part), pi. 20, fig. 1, S (189i). IlahHat. 

 Wassu-kow; Chou-pin-Sa, W. China. — Galiuwjn Lhatso, Oberthiir, Etudes Ent. xviii. 

 p. 13, pi. 7, fig. 81. Leech, I.e. ii. p. 652 (1894). Hahltat. Tsa-kou, E. Tibet. 

 — Galinnr/a Cercijon, de Niceville, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1897, p. 550, pi. 2, fig. 9, S . 

 Ilahitaf. Ta-Tsien-Lou, W. Ciiina. 



Sub-family LIBYTHEINiE. 



Lihijihddes, Bjisduval, Ind. Meth. Eur. Lep. p. 23 (1840). 



Libytlieid'v, Duponchel, Cital. Mu'ih. Lep. Eur. p. 8 (ISt-i). Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 412 



(1S51). Kirby, Man. Eur. Butt. p. 82 (ISG:;)). Wallace, Tr.ms. Eat. Soc. Lonl. 18G9, p. 334. 



Lang, Eur. Butt. i. p. l.')l (1834). Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bjngal, 1S8S, p. Hi). Kii'oy, 



Allen's N"at. Hist. Butt. ii. p. 1 (1896). Cxi-ote, Tr. Eat. Soo. Lond. I8y7, p. 310. 

 Z/ftvC/^f-mtT!, Bites, Journ. of Entom. i. p. 220 (18GI); id. ii. p. 176 (1864). Kirby, Syst. Catal. D. 



Lep. p. 282 (1S71). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 67 (1881). de 2ficcville, Eutt. of India, ii. 



p. 299 (1886). 

 Z%/A?i«re, Scudder, Butt. TJ. S. p. 749 (1839). Moore, Lep. Indioa, i. p. 2 (1890). Jordan, Xov. 



Zool. V. p. 386 (1898). 

 Ili/pati, Hlibner (Soudder, Syst. Kev. Amer. Butt. p. 28 (1872). 



Ch.\EACTEI5S of the LdiTTHEINiE. 



Ijiago. — Male and female of moderate size. Forew'ing subtriangular ; costa 

 arched; exterior margin strongly angulated outward below the apex, obliquely 

 concave below the angle and slightly scalloped ; cell closed. Hindvnng short, broad, 

 somewhat quadrate or irregularly ovate, exterior margin scalloped ; cell closed. 

 Body robust; palpi much elongated, porrected horizontally, and forming a long 

 conical beak, not compressed, densely clothed with short hairs; antenna3 short, 

 gradually incrassafced to the tip ; eyes naked ; forelegs short, small, tarsus of the 

 yiiale brush-like, exarticnlate, of the female clothed with short spiny scales, 

 articulated, spined beneath, last joint furnished with two minute curved claws, 

 paronychia, and pulvillus. 



L.\RVA. — Subcylindrical, rather slender, pubescent, unarmed. 



Pupa. — Suspended by tlie tail. Short, not angulated ; head broad. 



Egg. — " AmpuUiform ; shaped like a soda-water bottle ; twice as high as wide, 

 forming a short neck or stalk close to the apex ; radiate, with strong and 

 anastomosing ribs" (Doherty). 



Distribution and Habits. — "The history of the transformations of these butterflies 

 are imperfectly known. In temperate regions it would appear that there is moro 

 than one brood annually. Mr. Wallace (I.e.) says they are of world-wide distribution, 



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