NYMPHALIN^. 
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for a considerable distance from base, curved upward rather abruptly 
towards extremity, and terminating about middle of costa ; first and 
second subcostal nervules originating ratber close together, just before 
extremity of discoidal cell, — third at a considerable distance beyond 
cell, and terminating at apex ; discoidal cell very short ; upper disco- 
cellular nervule minute, almost obsolete, — middle one short or very 
short and curved inwardly, — lower one very long and attenuated, 
very slightly curved, ending at origin of third median nervule. Hind- 
wings : with costa prominently humped near base, but thence nearly 
straight ; apex rather pronounced ; hind-margin more dentate than 
in fore-wings, especially towards anal angle slightly prominent ; groove 
formed by inner margins shallow, incomplete, leaving much of lower 
side of abdomen exposed ; costal nervure running close along costa to 
apex ; radial nervure originating not far from base, just beyond the 
branching of subcostal nervules ; discoidal cell extremely short, nar- 
row, — the lower disco- cellular nervule exceedingly slender or obsolete 
altogether. Fore-legs of $ very small, slender, scaly, set rather 
scantily throughout with longish hairs ; of $ larger, smoother, with 
scarcely any hairs, the tarsus dilated and spinose beneath at ex- 
tremity. Middle and hind legs stout, rather short, scaly, — femora 
fringed with fine hairs beneath, — tibige finely spinulose beneath, with 
terminal spurs very short, — tarsi rather thickly armed with minute 
spines laterally and beneath. 
Abdomen slender, rather short. 
Larva. — Head with two long, erect, curved, spiny horns ; body 
with dorsal and lateral tubercular processes bearing at extremity radiat- 
ing bristles. 
Pupa. — Head acutely bifid ; wing-covers not only prominently angu- 
lated at bases, but sharply angulated and extended flatly outwardly ; 
back rather gibbous ; abdomen slightly curved, bifid at extremity. 
[The above characters of larva and pupa are taken from drawings 
of Natalian specimens of U. Hiarhcis reared by Captain Harford and 
Mr. Gooch. Except for the very long branched horns on the head, the 
larva recalls those of Limcnitis and NejMs ; and the pupa only exhibits 
in an exaggerated form the extended wing-covers of the chrysalis of 
the latter genus, — to judge from the figure of that of Neptis Varmona, 
Moore (Lej). Ceylon, i. pi. 28, f. 
The long and very porrect palpi, and the simple instead of swollen 
median nervure, at once distinguish Eurytela from Crenis, apart from 
the less apparent characters (especially the dilated fore-tarsi of the $ 
and the peculiar neuration of both wings) mentioned in the above 
diagnosis. The genus is mainly Ethiopian, five species being recorded 
from the African Continent and two others from Madagascar ; but two 
or three are known to inhabit the Indo-Malayan Sub-Kegion.-^ 
^ Mr. Wallace {Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1869, p. 331) states his belief that two of these 
latter, Boisduval's Ilorsjieldii and Stephensii, from Java, are i and ? of one species. 
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