G2 LEPIDOPTERA IXDICA. 



c? (1SG5). Semper, R. Pliil. Lep. p. 155, pi. 30, fig. "22, ? . Halnfat. Philippines.— 

 Liln/fhra Geoffroyi, Godart, Bnc. Meth. ix. p. 813 (1823) ; (W. Mem. Hoc. Liun. Paris, 

 ii. Lep. pi. 2 (1828). Wallace, Tr. Eut. Soc. 1869, p. 33^, ? . Habitat. Timor ; Floves 

 (Wallace) ; New Guinea (Fnihstorfer). — Libj/fhea Autijioita, Boisd. Bull. Soc. Ent. 

 France, 1859, p. 157. Habitat. New Caledonia. — Libijthea, Ceramcnsis, Wallace, 

 Trans. Ent. Soc. 1869, p. 366, S. Habitat. Ceram. — Libythea Batchiana, Wallace, 

 I.e. p. 336, c? (1869). Stand. Exot. Sclimett. pi. 87, fig. S (188S). Habitat. 

 Butcliian. — Libythea Celebensis, Staudinger. Habitat. Miuahassa. 



Family RIODINIDiE. 



Hrycinidce;-'- Swainson, Phil. Mag. ser. 2, i. p. 187 (1827). Westwood, Intr. Ent. ii. p. 357 (1840), 

 id. Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 415 (1851). Stephens, Catal. Brit. Lep. B.M, i. p. IG (1850). 

 Bates, Journ. Entom. ii. p. 176 (1864). Distant, Rhop. Malayana, p. 185 (1883). Doherty, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1886, pp. 110, 1.34. Staudinger and Schiitz, Exot. Schmelt. ii. p. 227 

 (1892). 



Ei-ycinides, Boisduval, Ind. Meth. Eur. Lep. p. 14 (1840). 



Erycinites, BlancLard, Hist. Nat. Ins. ii. p. 343 (1845). 



Eri/cinina, Plotz, Mitth. Nat. Ver. Neu-Vorp Rigen, xvii. p. 7 (ISSG). 



Lemoniades] (pirt), Hlibner, Verz. bek. Sshmett. p. 26 (1816). 



Lemoniidie, Kirby, Syu. Catal. D. Lep. p. 282 (1871) ; il Allen's Nat, Hist. Lep. ii. p. 6 (1896). 



LewonuVZrf (part), de Niceville, Butt, of India, ii. p. 299 (1S86). Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. \\ 67 

 (ISbl) ; id. Lep. Indica, i. p. 2 (1890). 



Lemoniinic, Scudder, Butt. U.S. p. 772 (1888-9). 

 Biodinidcr, Grote, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend. 1897, pp. 340-1. 



Chapactees of the RionrNiD.E. 



Imako. — Of small or medium size. Wings variable in form. Cell closed, 

 llindwing with a precostal vein. Forelegs of male more or less atropliied, brush- 

 like, clothed with long fine hairs, the tarsi consisting of a single unarmed joint. 

 Forelegs of female longer, slender, scaly ; tarsi perfect, with the joints longer and 

 more distinct than in the Nymphalidse. Palpi very small, short, horizontal. 



Lakva.^ — Subcjlindrical or sub-ouisciform, short; frequently covered with 

 dense pile and sometimes ranged hairs or fascicles of hairs, or with lateral Heshy 

 appendages. 



Pupa. — Short, either slightly or not angulated. Recumbently-suspended by 

 the tail, or, in addition, attached by a median girth. 



Egg. — " Not so high as wide, smooth, granulate or prickly, neither reticulate 

 nor radiate " (Doherty, I.e. 110). 



•■•■ Eryc na pieoceupied in Mollusea. 



I The type of genus Lemonias, Hiibn., is a Melitseid. See Lep. Ind. v. p. 2. 



