Abstract
THIS is a very elaborate monograph of a comparatively small group of butterflies found only in Tropical America. They form a subfamily of the great family Nymphalidæ, and are most nearly allied to the great blue Morphidæ, but differ from them by their stouter bodies, darker colours, and the closed cell of the hind wings, which are generally ornamented with three large eye-spots on the undersurface. Their flight is crepuscular, while that of the Morphidæ (which are represented in the East Indies as well as in Tropical America), is diurnal.
Brassolidae.
By Dr. H. Stichel. (Das Tierreich, 25 Lieferung.) Pp. xiv + 244. (Berlin: R. Friedländer und Sohn, 1909.) Price 15 marks.
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K., W. Brassolidae . Nature 81, 245–246 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081245c0
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