LYC^NID.E. 
flattened laterally, with a dense clothing of long stiff scales laterally 
and inferiorly, — the terminal joint long, slender, smooth, sharply 
pointed ; antennae quite slender, white-ringed, not gradually incrassated, 
but with a distinct elongated club. 
Fore-wings rather variable in shape, — in the typical (Erylus) group 
more elongate and pointed apically, — in the Faunus group more trun- 
cate and with a more convex costa : subcostal nervure with only three 
nervules, of which the first and second are emitted at some distance 
apart towards the end of discoidal cell, and the third from the end 
itself of the cell, and ending at the apex ; first radial nervule originat- 
ing from same point as third subcostal, second from junction of curved 
middle and lower disco-cellular nervules. Hind-ivings more or less 
produced in the anal-angular portion, bearing a lobe at anal angle 
itself, and a more or less developed tail at extremity of submedian 
nervure ; almost always a second sublinear tail on first median ner- 
vule, and sometimes a third on second median ; costa more or less 
convex ; costal nervure terminating at apex (except in H. Cmculus, 
Hopfier, where it ends about middle of costa) ; discoidal cell short, 
truncate ; radial nervule originating at meeting-point of disco-cellular 
nervules, the lower of which joins median nervure at origin of third 
median nervule. Fore-legs of $ rather long and slender, — the femur 
hairy beneath, — the tibia scaly, with a few fine hairs, — the tarsus very 
indistinctly articulated, finely spiny beneath, and terminating in a 
single curved claw ; — of ^ somewhat stouter and shorter, with tarsus 
longer and thicker, more spiny beneath, distinctly articulate, and 
terminating in two claws. Middle and hind legs rather short, — the 
tibia considerably shorter than the femur, and its terminal spurs long 
and stout, — the tarsus, owing to the length of the first joint (which is 
swollen in the hind-legs of the ^), considerably longer than the tibia. 
Larva. — Yery broad and thick, slightly narrower and thinner 
posteriorly ; head very small. 
Pupa. — Kobust, rounded, rather tapering posteriorly ; head and 
back of thorax but slightly prominent. 
(The characters of larva and pupa are from drawings by Mrs. 
Barber of those of H. Lara (Linn.) ) 
There is considerable diversity among the butterflies of this genus, 
as shown by the characters above given, but their slender structure 
and only three-branched subcostal nervure of the fore-wings are 
features which readily distinguish them from their allies the Myrinm 
and lolai. The upper surface of the males, though less metallic than 
in the genera just named, is usually of some deep rich purplish or 
violaceous-blue, while that of the females is dull grey or brown with 
more or less discal white. The under surface resembles that of the 
genus lolaus, being white or greyish with neatly-defined discal trans- 
verse stripes, sometimes more or less broken up into separate spots. 
In the typical group [H. Erylus^ Godt., Philipims^ Fab., and allies) 
