DODONA. 479 



stalked, precostal nervure always present. Antennae generally 

 long, over half length o£ fore wing ; club broad, abrupt, spatulate, 

 or long and gradual, but always distinct and grooved or hollow on 

 the ventral surface in the Indian forms ; palpi short, generally 

 porrect, with the third joint comparatively long in one genus, short 

 or even minute in others ; eyes hairy or naked. Fore legs of $ 

 imperfect, brush -like, tarsus one- jointed, without claws ; fore legs 

 of 2 functionally perfect but smaller than the intermediate and 

 posterior pair. 



The best known name Erycinidce, Swainson, 1827, for this 

 family cannot be used as Lamarck employed the same term in 

 1804, for a family of the Mollusca ; nor is Lemoniidce, Kirby 1871, 

 admissible, as the type of Hiibner's genus Lemonias is closely allied 

 to Melitcea. Moore adopts Grote's name Riodinidce for the 

 family, but JRiodina is American ; and as the whole of the Indian 

 forms are classed under the subfamily Nemeobince, Bates, and 

 Grote in his paper separates the forms in this subfamily as 

 Nemeobidce from the Riodinidce, I have adopted the former name 

 for the family. 



Key to the Genera of the Nemeobidse. 



A. Eyes hairy. 



a. Hind wing: tornus produced and lobed Dodona, p. 479. 



b. Hind wing : tornus not produced or lobed. 



a'. Hind wing : termen annulate or produced 



at apex of vein 4 Abisaka, p. 489. 



V . Hind wing : termen not angulate or pro- 

 duced, rounded Stiboges, p. oOO. 



B. Eyes naked. 



a. Hind wing : vein 3 from before lower apex of 



cell, 4 from apex Taxila, p. 49o. 



b. Hind wing : veins 3 and 4 from lower apex of 



cell Zemeros, p. 498. 



Genus DODONA. 



Dodona, Hewitson, JSxot. Butt, ii, 1861, Erycinidce, Sospita-Dodona ; 



de N. Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 309; Moore, Lep. bid. v, 1901-1903, 



p. 63. 

 Balonca, Moore, Lep. Ind. v, 1901-1903, p. 73. 



Type, D. durga, Kollar, from the Western Himalayas. 



Range. The hills of the Indo-Malayan Region. 

 J 2 • Fore wing broad, short, triangular ; costa very slightly 

 arched ; apex subacute ; termen slightly convex ; tornus angulate ; 

 dorsum straight ; cell comparatively broad, about half length of 

 wing ; veins 6 and 7 from upper apex of cell, therefore upper 

 discocellular obsolete, middle and lower subequal, concave ; vein 3 

 from a little before lower apex of cell, 4 from apex, 8 and 9 out of 

 7, 10 from upper apex of cell, 11 free, 12 very short, terminating 

 opposite origin of 11. Hind wing: costa arched; apex broadly 

 rounded ; termen below apex straight to vein 4, then slightly 



