2 LEPIDOFTEEA INBICA. 



Adult Caterpillae. — Generally cylindrical, tlie head usually held in a vertical 

 position, larger than the segments behind it, free and posteriorly contracted. Body, 

 furnished with continuous rows of spines or smooth lenticles, or with discontinuous 

 rows of fleshy tubercles, or with short pile ; in the last case either the head is tuber- 

 culate, or the last abdominal segment is furcate, or both, or tlie segments have but 

 four transverse and nearly equal divisions. 



Chrtsalis. — Generally angulate, often strongly angulate, or if rounded, with 

 shouldered prominences. It always hangs in a reversed position by its tail alone, 

 except in the rare case of a few Satyridge, which are rounded, without special promi- 

 nences, have no cremastral hooks, and undergo their changes in a crevice iipon, or a 

 cell in, the ground ; the head as high as or higher than the hinder end. (Scudder.) 



Family IL— LEMONIID^. 



Imago. — Of small or medium size. Front legs of male atrophied, those of the female 

 perfect; front tarsi of male consisting of a single unarmed joint. Antennce ^h.0Y\,, 

 with gradually thickening club. Palpi very small and short, or long and moderately 

 stout. Wi7igs variable in form, cell closed by a very slender vein. Hindivlags vari- 

 able, in some rounded, angulated, or with one or more tails. Anal segment of male 

 produced (Libythenias) into a median beak-like hook, upper organ slender, acicular 

 processes directed downwards, clasps simple, forming broad plates ; or (Lemoniinte) 

 ujDper organ forming a hood-like plate, bearing slender arms, clasps variable in 

 form, not differing much from those of Lycfeninse, but accompanied by a long basal 

 finger. 



Egg. — Elliptic (Libythea), the extreme apex truncate, sides with elevated ribs, 

 traversed, like the surface, by horizontal raised lines ; echinoid or tiarate (Lemo- 

 niin^) domed, the summit with a central depression, the surface delicately reticulated. 



Adult Caterpillar. — Cylindrical, unarmed (Libythea), slightly pubescent ; sub- 

 cylindrical or sub-onisciform (Lemoniinje), short, frequently covered with dense 

 pile and sometimes ranged hairs or fascicles of hairs ; or with lateral fleshy 

 appendages. 



Chrysalis. — Short, either slightly or not angulated; suspended by the tail; or 

 in addition, attached by a median girth. 



Family III.— LYC^NIDJE. 



Imago. — Of small size and delicate structure. The front legs sexually lietero- 

 morphous, the tarsi of the male being more or less atrophied, used for walldng. 

 Antennce including the club, straight. Foreicings with subcostal vein either three, 

 four, or five branched, the discoidal cell closed by a weak vein. Hindwings with the 

 median vein three branched, the inner margin never plaited. Anal segment of male 



