BUTTERFLIES. 



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and, like some of the Tropical Satyriiue, thoy are twilight-fliers, although 

 true butterflies. The accompanying figure represents the under-surface of 

 the wings of Caligo teucer (Linn.), a common South American species belong- 

 ing to the sub-family Brassolinw. The expanded wings of this butterfly 

 measure five or six inches from tip to tip. 



The two remaining sub-families, the SatyriiKe and the NymphalincB, 

 contain many of our commonest and most familiar British butterflies. 

 The Satyrince are brown or tawny butterflies, such as the meadow 

 brown, of moderate or rather small size, and are nearly always adorned 

 with eye-spots, at least on the under-surface of the wings. The 

 wings are rounded, and there is usually at least 

 one eye-spot towards the tip of the fore-wings, Sub-Family 

 and two or three towards the borders of the hind- Satyrince. 

 wings. 



The typical Nymphalirue may be known from the foregoing sub-families, 

 except the Morphines, by the open wing-cells, and often by the more or less 

 dentated wings. This is a very large group of large or 

 moderate-sized butterflies, and includes the tortoise-shells, 

 peacock, red admiral, fritillaries, purple emperor, and white 

 admiral, among our British butterflies, which are described 

 in full in every book on the subject. 



We have figured Kallima inachis (Boisduval), a butterfly found in North 

 India, which is remarkable for its resemblance to a dead leaf. It measures 

 three inches across the wings, which are dull blue above, with a broad orange 



band with a transparent spot 



Sub-Family 



Nyjnphaliuce, 



in the middle, on the fore- 

 wings. The under-surface is 

 brown, with a dark line run- 

 ning from the tip of the fore- 

 win^s to the end of the lobe on 

 the hind-wings. This line re- 

 presents the midrib of the leaf, 

 and the butterfly is shaped and 

 lined and mottled in such a 

 manner as to increase the de- 

 ceptifjn. There is a case of 

 such butterflies mounted, with 

 leaves, in the hall of the 

 Natural History Museum at 

 South Kensington ; and the 

 butterflies and leavescan hardly 

 be distinguished from one 

 another. Our figure shows a. 

 butterfly on one side of a twig, 

 and a leaf on the other. 



The Lemoniidcp. are a large 

 family of small, brightly-col- 

 oured butter- 

 flies, which are Family 

 most numer- Lemoniidce. 



ous in South America, and least so in Europe and Africa. 



The females have perfect legs, but the fore-legs of the male are imperfectly 



Fig. 67.- 



-Dead-Leaf Butterfly (Kallima inachis). 

 Keduced. 



