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BOLBONEURA. 
Bolboneura, Godman & Salvin, P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 62. 
‘A single species at present constitutes this genus, which is restricted in its range to 
Southern Mexico and Guatemala. 
The position of Bolboneura is somewhat intermediate between Hunica, Temenis, and 
Epiphile, having the swollen costal and median nervures of some members of Eunica ; 
but this character is much more developed in Bolboneura. The palpi are elongated as 
in Epiphile &c.; but the eyes are smooth, and the anal angle of the secondaries rounded 
and not produced. 
As in Epiphile, the subcostal nervure emits two branches before the end of the cell, 
the upper discocellular is short, the chords of the middle and lower discocellulars stand 
at less than two right angles to one another, the former making an obtuse angle with 
a tangent to the subcostal; the lower discocellular meets the median just beyond the 
origin of the second branch ; the costal and median nervures are much swollen at their 
bases. The front legs of the male are very slightly hairy; coxa> 4 femur-+ trochanter ; 
tibiaxtarsus; tarsus (single-jointed)>% tibia. Middle and posterior legs hairy but 
not spiny beneath; claws short, strongly curved. Eyes smooth. Palpi hairy; terminal 
joint elongated (more so in the female than in the male), ovate; middle joint stout and 
swollen. Antenne 33-jointed, terminal 12 forming a moderate club. The secondary 
male sexual organs are very much like those of Epiphile; the tegumen has a central 
spine elongated and depressed into a hook; the harpagones are feeble, hairy at the 
end, but without spines. 
1. Bolboneura sylphis. (Tab. XXIV. figg. 11, 12.) 
Temenis sylphis, Bates, Ent. Monthl. Mag. i. p. 113°. 
Bolboneura sylphis, Godm. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 62%. 
Alis anticis extus dentem ferentibus, posticis margine externo omnino dentato, anticis dimidio apicali fasciis 
duabus ochraceis transvittato, dimidio basali et area posticarum interna rosaceo-ceruleis, a margine fusco 
rufo separatis linea submarginali chalybeo-ceruleo: subtus anticis fuscis, apice flavido variegato, basi et 
fascia obliqua transversa flavis, ad cellule finem linea transversa chalybeo-cerulea ; posticis griseis rufo- 
fusco variegatis, maculis magnis hujus coloris apud cost medium et ad angulum analem, macula triangulari 
costali flava sicut in genere Hpiphile. 
Femina mari similis sed paulo major. 
Hab. Mexico (Deppe); Guatema.a, valleys of the interior (FD. G. & O. S.*), Polochic 
valley (Hague), San Gerénimo (Champion). 
Though the specimens we obtained in Guatemala in 1862 were the first that were 
described of this pretty species, Deppe, as has so frequently been the case, had sent 
specimens to the Berlin Museum from Mexico some fifty years previously. In Guate- 
mala B. syiphis is by no means common; but we have recently received from our 
excellent collector Mr. Champion several examples all taken in the neighbourhood of 
San Gerdénimo. 
