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pressed to the edge of tlie blade, the tip, which is clavate and ends in a 

 short hook not visible from the side, reajhing the base of the uncus. 

 This construction varies but little in all the genera aad species of the 

 group. A remarkable feature of the subfamily lies in the fore tarsi be- 

 ing in both sexes similar to the middle and hind ones, just as in Fapilio 

 or Hesperia. This also occurs, according to Mi-. Trimen, in certain 

 African genera, such as Arrugia, which from his account of them seem 

 to belong to this group. The legs of Gerydus are curiously flattened in 

 both sexes, those of Allotiniis and Paragerydus are long and slender, those 

 of typical Logania have the ends of the tibife swollen. One or two 

 species hitherto included in this last genus have the legs slightly flatten- 

 ed aud very short and stout, the tibise being thickest in the middle. 

 These fully deserve to form a separate genus, for which I propose the 

 name Malais It will include L. marmorata and L. sriwa (probably the 

 same species), and one or two rare kinds undescribod, ranging from Pegu 

 to Borneo. Since the preceding remarks wore written, I have taken a 

 true Logania in Upper Assam. 



The egg is usually very much flattened, but, in Logania and Malais, 

 it is scarcely more than twice as wide as high, as in many Lycainns. 

 Except in Paragerydus and a few Allotini, which have much flatter eggs, 

 there is usually a number of strong lateral horizontal cai'inaj, two, 

 three, four, or five according to the species, either simple or broken into 

 short teeth. These teeth are placed in vertical series, one above the 

 other, giving the outer margin of the egg, and indeed the egg itself it it 

 is much flattened, the appearance of a cogged wheel. Thus the usual 

 oblique reticulations of the Lyomnido} give place on the outer border to 

 vortical (the teeth) and horizontal (the cariuse) lines, a remarkable 

 feature. The upper sui^face is, however, obliquely reticulated with 

 delicate raised stria?. 



This vertical reticulation is more ])rouounced in the egg of Liphyra, 

 which, as might be expected from the strangeness of the insect itself, 

 is very unlike that of other Lyacenidm. It shows, however, an unexpected 

 resemblance to that of Logania and Taralm. The egg is of great size, 

 green, overlaid with white, shaped something like a section or " drum " 

 of a Doric column, but somewhat widest at the base, the height, breadth 

 at apex, aud breadth at base being to each other as 9, 13, and 151. The 

 top is marked with hexagonal reticulations, the lines turbinate in the 

 middle, the margin deeply channelled, and then strongly oarinate, the 

 carina pi-ojecting both upwards and outwards, white, its contour even. 

 The base is also obscurely carinate. The sides are crusted with white, 

 and minutely indented, with about forty-five vertical ribs, slightly 

 irregular and even (very rarely) anastomosing, extending also over the 

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