LIMBMTIS] NYMI'HALIDAE 



5. LlMENITlS, F. 



Eyes hairy. Club of antennae very elongate and gradual. 

 Forewings : 10 separate. Hindwings with transverse vein 

 absent between 4 and 5. 



Rather numerously represented in the Indo-Malayan region, 

 less common in other parts of the northern hemisphere, only 

 three species occurring in Europe. Larva with series of bristly 

 spines. Pupa angular, partly green, with golden-metallic 

 spots, head bifid. 



1. L. sibilla, L. 52-60 mm. Forewings dark fuscous; an 

 interrupted white postmedian fascia, cut by dark veins ; three 

 small whitish spots beyond this. Hindwings dark fuscous ; a 

 white median fascia, cut by dark veins. Wings beneath 

 brownish-orange, with black bars and series of spots; white 

 markings as above ; hindwings with base and dorsum bluish- 

 whitish. 



S. England to Worcester and Lincoln, in woods, local, scarcer 

 than formerly ; C. Europe ; 6, 7. Larva green, irroratcd with 

 yellow ; a double dorsal series of reddish bristly spines, largest 

 on 3, 4, and 6 ; spiracular line whitish, yellow-spotted, edged 

 with rows of very short spines ; subspiracular on 6-10 red- 

 brown ; head spinose, with two longer black spines on crown : 

 on Lonicera ; 9-5. An insect of especially graceful flight. 



6. Apatura, F. 



Eyes glabrous. Club of antennae elongate, gradual. Fore- 

 wings: 10 separate. Hindwings with transverse vein absent 

 between 4 and 5. 



A small genus, but very generally distributed over the 

 Northern hemisphere. Larva shaped much like a slug, with 

 two long tentacles on the head ; its colours are protective. 

 Pupa stout, obtusely angular, green, head bifid. 



1. A. iris, L. 64-84 mm. Forewings dark fuscous, disc in 

 <$ deep purple-blue in certain lights ; an irregular interrupted 

 central fascia and some posterior spots white. Hindwings with 

 colour as in forewings, but less blue in <$ ; a white median 

 fascia not reaching dorsum ; a black ferruginous-ringed some- 

 times whitish -centred spot towards tornus. Wings beneath 

 brownish, partly suffused with ferruginous-red ; white mark- 

 ings much as above ; forewings with a posterior orange blotch 

 containing a black bluish-centred spot. 



S. England to Merioneth and Lincoln, local ; C. Europe, 



