+--------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXI | | | | 1. _Timetes coresia_, Godart, ♂. | | 2. _Timetes coresia_, Godart, ♂, | | _under side_. | | 3. _Timetes petreus_, Cramer, ♂. | | 4. _Timetes chiron_, Fabricius, ♂. | | 5. _Callicore clymena_, Cramer, ♂. | | 6. _Callicore clymena_, Cramer, ♂, | | _under side_. | | 7. _Eunica monima_, Cramer, ♂. | | 8. _Eunica monima_, Cramer, ♀. | | 9. _Hypolimnas misippus_, Linnæus, ♂. | | 10. _Hypolimnas misippus_, Linnæus, ♀. | | | | [Illustration PLATE XXI.] | +--------------------------------------------------------------+ _Early Stages._--Unknown. The Leopard-spot is found occasionally in Florida, but quite commonly in the Antilles, Mexico, and Central America. Genus TIMETES, Boisduval (The Dagger-wings) _Butterfly._--The palpi are moderately long, thickly clothed with scales, the last joint elongated and pointed. The antennæ have a well-developed club. The fore wings and the hind wings have the cell open. In the fore wing the subcostal vein, which has five branches, emits the first nervule well before the end of the cell, the second a little beyond it, and the third and fourth near together, before the apex of the wing. The third median nervule of the hind wing is greatly produced and forms the support of the long tail which adorns this wing. Between the end of the submedian vein and the first median nervule is another lobe-like prolongation of the outer margin of the wing. The butterflies are characterized for the most part by dark upper surfaces, with light under surfaces marked with broad bands and lines of varying intensity of color. They are easily distinguished from the butterflies of all other genera of the Nymphalidæ by the remarkable tail-like appendage of the hind wing, giving them somewhat the appearance of miniature Papilionidæ. [Illustration FIG. 104.--Neuration of the genus _Timetes_.] _Early Stages._--Nothing of note has been recorded of their early stages which may be accepted as reliable, and there is an opportunity here for study and research.