LihtftltainaS or recuml>&iit on a leaf or other object, aucl secured by the tail and a girdle across the 

 middle, aa hi the Subfara. Xemeohiiim, 



It is not, however, in the Eastern, but in the Western Tropics that the Erijcinidie reach 

 their maximum in number anil beauty, and like the Morphittn may be said to bear witness in 

 the Oriental region to an earlier Neotropical relationship, the truth of which will be probably 

 demonstrated by future palaeontological discoveries. 



In the Neotropical region the Enjcviuhe exhibit, as truly remarked by Mr, Wallace, 

 "a variety and brilliancy of colouring unsurpassed in the whole order"; and the same author 

 and observer recorded that in that region 41 the great mass of the species of this family have 

 a very peculiar habit of invariably settling and reposing on the under surface of leaves with 

 the wings expanded, but there are some very striking exceptions to the rule/'t Mr* Bates 

 describes these exceptions when he records that in many genera, "on the contrary, the position 

 of the wings in repose is vertical ; and a few species settle on the upper surface of leaves 

 with the wings half elevated," f It will therefore he most interesting to learn whether these 

 peculiarities are observable in the Eastern representatives of the family* § 



Snbfani. NEMEOBIIN^E* 



Xtnnobibufi Bates, Journ, Lion. Hoc. Zool. vol. ix, p. 412 (1807-1868); Marsh. & de Nic. Butt- India, 

 Burm. k Ccyl. p t 18 (18B21. 



In this subfamily the palpi are very small and slender, a 

 character which will sufficiently separate the Nmeobnna from 

 the IJI'itthmTuZi which, as before remarked, is almost certainly 

 represented hi this fauna, though at present unrecorded. 



From the other divisions of the Erycinidce, the Nemeobtina may 



Fio. t».—v*v* "t.ikuara prutuua. be separated by a feature in the neuration uf the unterior wings, in 



, I rum Moun's U-y. Oil.! x 



which the subcostal nervure emits five nervules. [| 

 Although this subfamily contains all the old world species of Ertjcinidat, it also includes 

 :l large number belonging to the Neotropical region. 



* No example of Lliis subfamily, to uiy knowledge, has yet been received frotu the Malay Feiiinsula, though it almost 

 certainly must bo there represented. 



| Tram. Eut. Hot. 1853, p. 202. 



\ Jourii. Linn. Soc. t Zool. vol. ix. p. 5.W>1» (lHt>Sj. This variable method of bearing the wings in repose has induced 

 Mom Constant Bar (Ann. h>oc. Ent. Fr. Her. 5, t. viii, p. 17 i IN7K) t<> place the Ivrijcit'idf m b vsteuaatic juxtaposition with the 

 Hcsjierirfa, whose similar variability in the Home function has already been alluded to on tho tirat page of this work. 



§ The gradual, though recent, growth of our knowledge in exotic Ithopulocera is afforded by some statistics given by 

 '1 I i l in. Linn. Soc., SSoel. vol. ix. p. 366), "In ItilSJ, when God&rt treated of the group, aa one genuu, in tlie 

 • Encyclopedia Methodiquo,' only 184 epecien were described; and in 1851 Prof. Westwood could muster only •247." At the 

 date of reading his paper Mr. Hates stated that the number of described species was not fewer than (580, of which 



a large number were discovered by himself, whUst, at the end of 1S77, or ton yearn subsequently, I have computed (by tho aid 

 of Mr. Kirby's excellent Catalogue] that, excluding the Ltbyih/riiifr, some UO0 species wcro described. 



|| Mr. Bales gives these nervules or "branches 1 ' as four, thus evidently, in agreement with Home other entomologists, 

 preferring to consider what is here designated as the lifth nervulc as being actually the termination of the subcostal 

 nervure. 



