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cell, tlie other two at some distance beyond ; tlie inferior branclies are muct as in 

 the Nymphaliu^ ; discoidal cell usually at least half the length of the wing, closed 

 by distinct veins ; median vein often swollen at the base, the branches equidistant, 

 the first arising at the middle of the cell, the last at its tip, which curves towards 

 the subcostal veinlets ; submedian vein sometimes swollen at the base ; internal 

 veinlet absent. A very anomalous distribution of the veins of the forewing, both at 

 the costal and inner margins, is shown by Mr. Wood-Mason to occur in the genus 

 Pai'antirrhEea. Hindiuings not generally smaller than the forewings, broadly 

 rounded, generally without tails, angles, or more than slight crenulations ; inner 

 border forming a gutter for the reception of the abdomen ; costal vein terminating 

 at about the middle of the outer half of the anterior border ; subcostal vein 

 taking its rise apparently as a dependent of the costal vein, its lower branch 

 curving strongly at base toward the median; cell closed by a slender vein, con- 

 necting the lower subcostal veinlet just beyond its initial curve to the last branch 

 of the median at its curve, directed outward from the subcostal toward the 

 median veinlet ; the branches of the median vein arise further from the base of the 

 wing than the corresponding ones of the subcostal vein, the terminal one curving 

 to receive the [discocellulai^] vein closing the cell; submedian vein terminating at the 

 anal angle ; internal vein terminating at about the middle of the inner border. 

 Forelegs very small, variable in division and armature ; the male tarsi consist of a 

 single joint sometimes divided by sutures into from three to five unarmed articula- 

 tions ; in the female they are divided into four or five joints, sometimes unarmed, 

 sometimes with apical spurs, and sometimes witb scattered spines only. Male 

 abdominal ai^fendages : — Upper organ provided with a hook as long as or longer 

 than the centrum and generally as long as or longer than the clasps ; also, with a 

 pair of slender, tapering, backward-directed appendages on the sides ; clasps pretty 

 long and slender, at least four times as long as broad, tapering on the apical half, 

 and generally becoming very slender." (Scudder, Butt. E. U. S. i. 115, 1888.) 



Egg. — " Subspherical, flattened at the base, and rounded, though usually slightly 

 flattened at the summit ; the sides full and broadest below the middle, usually in the 

 middle of the lower half; covered either with very inconspicuous cells or with very 

 numerous, delicate, longitudinal ribs ; surface minutely granulose ; micropyle com- 

 posed of minute angular cells ; increasing a little in size outwardly and separated by 

 delicate raised lines" (Scudder). Mr. W. Doherty, who is the only entomologist 

 who has paid attention to the study of the eggs of Indian butterflies, characterizes 

 those of the Satyrince (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 1886, 109) as follows: — " ^gg 

 about as high as wide, a little more or a little less, rather small, hard, typically 

 translucent, and smooth or with obscure polygonal facets, sometimes subradiate, or 

 even (Aidocera) with distinct, broadly-scalloped, anastomosing ribs, somewhat as in 



