. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TUE MOIU' ITIIOMIA FLOKii. with a forked tail, and feed ou different kinds of grasses, Tlie Butterflies frequent marslies, meado^vs, and mountains, and many are among our commonest Butterflies, flying in every flekl. Many species of the genus Erehia are found in the Alps, the great majority of which are brown, with a row of more or less contiguous red spots towards the margins, marked with a series of black spots, which often, again, show a small white dot in the middle. The Scotch Argus Butterfly {Erebia, medea) is the best known r
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. TUE MOIU' ITIIOMIA FLOKii. with a forked tail, and feed ou different kinds of grasses, Tlie Butterflies frequent marslies, meado^vs, and mountains, and many are among our commonest Butterflies, flying in every flekl. Many species of the genus Erehia are found in the Alps, the great majority of which are brown, with a row of more or less contiguous red spots towards the margins, marked with a series of black spots, which often, again, show a small white dot in the middle. The Scotch Argus Butterfly {Erebia, medea) is the best known repre- sentative of this genus in Britain. Some foreign Satyrhue are of a brilliant blue, though this colour is rare in the sub-family ; but one of the most remarkable Butterflies known, as regards colour, is Argyrophorus argenteus, a Chilian insect, which is of a uniform pale silvery colour above. The small sub-family of the Ehjnmihve consists of the two genera Elymnias and Dyctis. We have already noticed the female of Elymnias undularis as one of the mimics of Danais chrysippus. All the species of Elymnian, except two, which are African, are East Indian or Malayan. They are generally dark- coloured insects, averaging about three inches in expanse; the fore wings are often spotted with blue and white, and the hind wings are bordered with orange. Most of the species are striated with brown on the under side, and the group has a strong family likeness, which renders it easy to recocnise it. Nearly all the Elymniince mimic other Butterflies in the arrangement of their colour.^, on the upper side of the wings, but their wings are always dentated, and often angulated, whereas all the Butterflies which they super- ficially resemble have rounded wings. The next sub-family, the Morphinw, though including some con- spicuous East Indian species, is best represented by the typical genus Morpho, which contains the magnificent blue Butterflies of South America. The most brilliant of all kno
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