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ERYCINIDM. 
Genus 1. — NEMEOBIUS, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. liaust. i. p. 28 
(1827). 
Melit^a et Argynnis, Auctorum. 
Characters. — Eyes hairy. Antennae slender, with a flattened 
triangular club. Head small. Thorax stout, and larger than the 
head. Abdomen tolerably long, and usually not entirely concealed 
by the wings when these are closed. The apices of the anterior 
wings very sharp ; the hind wings indented along the hind margin. 
General character of the colour and pattern of the wings closely 
resembling that of the Genus Melitcea. 
Imagines frequenting woods in the spring and autumn ; larvae 
feeding on Primulce and Bumices. 
1. — N. Lucina, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 480; Faun. Suec. 280; 
Esp. 16, 2; Hiib. 21, 22; Fit. B. 43, 1. 
Expands from IGO to 1‘25 inch. Fore wings dark brown, 
with three irregular transverse bands of bright orange-brown spots, 
that parallel to the hind margin having the greatest number and 
enclosing black dots. Hind wings dark brown, with a hind-marginal 
row of orange-brown spots, enclosing a row of black ones ; on the 
area of the wing are one or two small orange-brown spots. Under 
side : — Fore wings brown, with three rows of orange spots as 
al)ove, but the colour, both of the ground and of the spots, is 
lighter. Hind wings reddish brown, with two rows of white spots, 
one row near the base and the other crossing the centre of the 
wing ; along the hind margin is a row of black dots, one on each 
cell, except at the anal angle. Fringes of all the wings white, 
chequered with dark brown. PI. XXXIII., 1. 
Times of Appearance. — May and June, and again in August. 
Habitat. — The greater part of Western and Central Europe, 
the South of Sweden, North Italy and the North of the Balcans. 
It is exclusively a European species, frequenting open places in 
woods. 
Larva. — Eeddish brown, with a dorsal row of black dots ; the 
sides are brownish white with dark lines. The intersegmental 
