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and dark ringed, with dark clnb, n-liich is not abruptly but still distinctly thickened, and light tip. Palpi 

 long and thin, densely haired anteriorly. Eyes hairy. Forelegs in both sexes much aborted. The genus 

 consists of two North American species, one of which was for a long time regarded as a variety of the 

 other, until SKI:^^^~EE described it as a separate species. The other, the well-known portlandia, was referred 

 by TTestwood to the genus Debis (= Lethe Hbn.), by Kieby with ? to the genus Ewptychia. Dyar in his 

 catalogue introduces HtTBXER's name Enodia for it. The neuration of the butterflies agrees with the Indian 

 genus Lethe, but the shape of the larva differs in that the head in Lethe bears one horn, in Enodia two. 



E. portlandia F. {= andromacha Hbn.) (44 b). Expanse 48 — 51 mm. The black .spots of the upper portlandia, 

 surface, which are here non-papilled, with brownish yellow borders, have beneath mostly white pupils and 

 a dark brown second ring as border; also their number is increased by one, a small double eye-spot being 

 present at the anal angle. In the basal area on both wings a somewhat curved brown line, a second strongly 

 dentate brosMi line through the middle of the wings, a narrow broAvn submarginal band and two fine brown 

 marginal lines, between which the margin is filled up with ochre-yellow. — The larva is slender, nar- 

 rowing to a point from the middle to the anus, green, with a red dorsal and a dark green lateral line. The 

 head is bipartite, each part bears a short conical horn ; the last abdominal segment with two posteriorly direct- 

 ed points. On grasses. The pupa concave on the dorsum, convex on the ventral side, with an obtuse ele- 

 vation on the thorax, hght green. The butterfly is distributed in the United States from, the east coast to the 

 Rocky Mountains and from Maine in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south. 



E. creola Skinner. Similar to the preceding, but larger, ^ and $57 mm. expanse. Forewing in the ,^ creola. 

 more elongated, at the costal margin more convex, at the distal margin more concave. Ground-colour darker 

 grey-brown, the black spots on the forewing not margined with brown-yellow, at both, sides of the veins 

 on the forewing are placed long cottony dark brown spots, which are proximally connected, distally pointed. 

 On the hindwing the black spots are all of the same size. In the $ the brown-yellow bordering of the black 

 spots is broader than in portlandia. Occurs along the Gulf of Florida to Mexico. Rare. As I do not know 

 creola in nature, I leave the question undecided whether it is a good species or only a local form of portlandia. 



9. Genus: Taygetis Hbn.. 



This genus consists of large and medium-sized butterflies, and also some below medium size. The 

 largest species measiire 95 — 100 mm, the smallest 48 — 50 mm. The ocelli are naked; the palpi with strong, 

 bristly hairs. Antennae thin with feebly thickened club. The costal and median veins of the forewing are 

 swollen at the base. Two subcostal veins on the forewing arise before the end of the cell and two beyond it. 

 The upper discocellular is rather short, much shorter than the m.iddle discocellular, this and the lower one are 

 of equal length. In the hindwing the upper discocellular is almost as long as the m.iddle, the loAver on the con- 

 trary mostly somewhat longer. The forewing is either smooth -margined, with the apex either rounded 

 or produced, or the apex appears truncate, an obtuse angle being formed at the upper radial. The hindwing 

 is more or less strongly dentate, in many species the dentition extends over the whole distal margin, in others 

 only on the posterior part. Mostly the most strongly projecting tooth is placed on median 2, but in single 

 species on median 3. With but few exceptions the upper surface is unicolorous brown. The few known larvae 

 live on species of bamboo. The range of distribution extends over the whole of tropical America, northwards 

 to Mexico and southwards to South Brazil. 



T. mermeria Cr. (44 c). The largest species of the genus and very variable in the shape of the mermcria. 

 wings and the pattern of the rmder surface. The name-typical form has the apex of the forewing rectangular, 

 sometimes somewhat rounded. The distal margin of the forewing is smooth, that of the hindwing undulate 

 ■with blunt angles. Upper surface unicolorous olive-brown. Fringes sometimes olive-brown, sometimes 

 brownish white. The under surface is very variable, mostly it is grey-brown with a narrow, straight, whit- 

 ish median band through both wings. Beyond this a row of 5 — 6 dark ocelli on each wing, of which, how- 

 ever, often only the white pupils are visible. Som.etimes also the lighter band is wanting, especially on the fore- 

 wing, or it is only indicated by a lighter shading, before which a broad dark brown median band runs through 

 both wings. The species has a wide distribution and is locally not rare. Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, 

 Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Amazons, Bolivia, British Guiana, Surinam, Brazil. The butter- 

 fly flies in the lowlands in the shadow of the woods near the ground and is difficult to distinguish from the 

 dry, fallen leaves on which it is fond of resting. — crameri [Stgr. i. I.) form. nov. (44 c) is a form of mermeria crameri. 

 in which the underside of both wings is for the most part reddish ochre-yellow and some of the eye-spots 

 on the forewing are much larger and likewise ochre-yellow; sometimes they are so on the hindwing also. From 

 Mexico and South Brazil. — tenebrosus Blanch. (44 c), likewise a form of mermeria, in which the forewing is tenehrosus. 

 produced at the costa.l margin into a fine point several millimeters in length and the eye-spots on the under 

 surface of the forewing are mostly only small. The hindwing has beneath before the middle a light brownish 



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