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tarsus, the second, third, and fourth gradually shortening, each with a pair of short spines 
at the tip, on the lower side, the terminal joint very small, with two very short straight 
spines. 
" Four hind jnoderately long and robust, scaly ; femur hairy beneath ; tibia of equal length 
with the femur, with strong spines beneath (except at the basal one-third) and at the tip, 
tibial spurs strong ; tarsus equal to the tibia in length and thickness, with four rows of 
spines beneath ; claws rather large, but not so long as the terminal seta) of the tarsus, 
strongly curved, and very acute ; paronychia bifid, setose, nearly as long as the claws ; 
pulvillus short. 
" Abdojien rather small. 
" Laeva subcylindrical, narrowed behind, with setose tubercles on the sides of the body, and with 
several pairs of elongated, obtuse, hairy spines on the back, those towards the head being 
the longest. Papa suspended by the tail, head-case beaked or bifid, gibbose on the back 
of the thorax." {Wesiwood, I. c.) 
This genus is represented in North America, Europe, and throughout nearly 
the whole of Asia. 
Limenitis albomaculata. (Plate XVI. fig. 3, d .) 
Limeniiis albomaculata, Leech, Entomologist, xxiv., Suppl. Feb. p. 28 (1891) ; Oberthiir, 
Etud. d'Entom. xvi. p. 7, pL ii. fig. 15 (1892). 
MaJe. Velvety black ; an elongated oval white spot, edged externally with bluish, is placed 
obliquely on the central area of primaries, and a smaller white spot lies towards the apex of 
the wing ; a large white transverse oval spot occupies the central area of the secondaries, — 
this is edged outwardly with blue, but its lower end is not well defined. Fringes of the 
ground-colour chequered witli white. Under surface reddish bi'own : primaries have an 
abbreviated oblique central fascia bluish white ; the discal cell is nearly filled up with 
blackish, and crossed by two bluish-white bars ; there is a broad, blackish, longitudinal dash 
in each nervular interspace ; these are more or less interrupted towards outer margin ; towards 
apex there are two white spots, the lower of these is nearly round : secondaries have the basal 
half bluish white, except along the costal area, which is reddish brown ; central transverse 
fascia slightly curved and attenuated towards the anal angle ; the median portion of this band 
is white, the extremities bluish, and it is bordered on each side by a blackish lino ; on tlio 
outer marginal area is a double scries of black spots, both followed by an interrupted violet- 
grey transverse line. 
Expanse 04-70 millim. 
Moupin, at an elevation of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. 
Supoi-ficially resembles AfJiyma punctata, Lcccli (Entom. xxiii. p. 33), and 
also llypolimnas misippus. Linn. Tlic female has not yet been found. 
This is one of the very fine species cJ.iscovered in some numbers by 
Tlcrr KricheldorfF at Moupin in 1890. M. Oberthiir (/. c.) records tliis species 
from " tli(! region north of Ta-chien-lu." 
