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straight; costal, median, and submedian vein slightly swollen; cell broad across the 
middle; discocellulars bent close to upper end and at one-third, lower excurved, 
radials from the angles; median veinlets equidistant and wide apart. Hindwing 
short; costa convex, exterior margin sinuous and bluntly tailed at end of upper 
median, abdominal margin long; cell rather short and broad ; discocellulars oblique, 
rounded in the middle; two upper medians from end of the cell. Body rather stout; 
eyes densely clothed with short very fine hairs ; antenna with an elongated slender 
club. 
Adult Caterpillar. —Fusiform ; head conical, the vertex pointed and projected 
forward, anal segment acutely pointed and projected hindward. 
Chrysalis. —Suspended by the tail; broad, and truncated anteriorly, abdominal 
segments dorsally convex, head and vertex both pointed. 
Type. —L. Europa. 
LETHE EUROPA (Plate 82, figs. 1, la,$ ? ). 
Papilio Europa, FaUricius, Syst. Ent. p. 500, (1775); Ent. Syst. iii. i. p. 76 (1793). 
Oreas Marmorea Europa , Htibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. Band i. pi. 90, fig. 1-4 (1805). 
Lethe Europa, Hiibner, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 56 (1816). Butler, Catal. Satyr. Brit. Mus. p. 114 
(1868); Catal. Eabr. Lep. B. M. p. 29 (1869). Distant, Bhop. Malay, p. 43, pi. 5, fig. 5, 6, $ $ 
(1882). Marshall and de FTiceville, Butt, of India, etc. i. p. 149 (1883). Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. 
p. 221, pi. 78, $ (1887). 
Satyrus Europa, Godart, Eney. Metli. ix. p. 478 (1819). 
Delis Europa , Westwood, Gen. D. Lep. p. 359 (1851). 
Papilio Beroe , Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 79, fig. C. D. (1779), $ . 
Imago. —Male. Upperside olivescent ochreous-brown; marginal line slender, 
blackish, and narrowly bordered with pale ochreous broadly interrupted with dusky- 
black ; cilia alternated with pale ochreous. Forewing with the transverse subbasal 
line, the oblique discal band, and the ocelli of the underside more or less apparent; 
two more clearly defined superposed apical whitish spots. Hindwing with a series 
of more or less obsolescent dusky-black submarginal spots, the subapical spot 
coalescing with the dusky margin. Underside much darker olivescent ochreous- 
brown ; crossed by a prominent violet-white subbasal narrow band on both wings. 
Forewing with a broad short oblique discal band, which is violet-white anteriorly and 
ochreous posteriorly, and terminates at the middle of the incurved series of six pale 
violet blind ocelli, each of which has a small irregular-shaped pale-bordered blackish 
centre, and all encompassed within a violet-white outer bordering line; apex of wing 
with a small violet patch; marginal line ochreous bordered. Hindwing with an 
acutely sinuous angulated discal line, contiguous to which are six large longitudin¬ 
ally-narrow, confluent, dark ochreous ocelli, the lowest being duplex, each having a 
