CHAP. XXI.] 
INSECTS. 
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Family 6. — ACRiEIDJE. (1 Genus, 90 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Ne ARCTIC 
S UB-REGIONS. 
Pal.-earctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
SUB-REGIONa 
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The genus Acrma is especially abunclant in the Ethiopian 
region, which contains two-thirds of all the known species ; 3 or 
4 species only, range over the whole Oriental, and most of the 
Australian regions ; while all the rest inhabit the same districts 
of the Neotropical region as the Bras soli das. 
Family 7.- HELICONIILE. (2 Genera, 114 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
Pal.earctic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions, 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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3 — 
The true Ileliconidae are very characteristic of the Neotropical 
region ; one species only extending into the Southern States of 
North America as far as Florida. The genus Heliconms (83 
sp.), has the range of the family ; while Eueides (19 sp.), is con- 
fined to the Brazilian and Central American sub-regions. 
Family 8.— NYMPHALID^. (113 Genera, 1490 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
Nearctic 
Sub-regions. 
PaLjEARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions, 
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1 . 2 . 3. 4 
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1 . 2 . 3 . 4 
1 . 2 . 3 . 4 
This is the largest and most universally distributed family of 
butterflies, and is well illustrated by our common Fritillaries, 
