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VICTORINA. 
Victorina, Blanchard, Hist. Nat. Ins. iu. p. 447 (1850) ; Westw. Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 264. 
Four or five species are usually associated in this genus ; but as the type (V. stelenes) 
has peculiar characters in the secondary male sexual organs which can hardly be over- 
looked, we have here removed V. superba and V. epaphus to the genus Amphirene, 
which has already been suggested for them, and with them V. trayja follows. Victorina 
stelenes thus remains the only species of the genus Victorina, the particulars of the 
range of which are given below. 
The subcostal nervure of the primaries emits two branches before the end of the cell, 
the second running close to the subcostal for some distance before diverging to the costa ; 
the upper discoceilular is short and directed outwards; the middle discocellular meets 
the lower radial at nearly a right angle, where a short spur is emitted, no doubt a 
rudiment of the lower discocellular. The front legs of the male have a stout coxa 
about =#% femur-+trochanter; tibia <femur; tarsus =} tibia; tarsus single-jointed 
(in one specimen dissected the sutures of three short additional joints are just visible) ; 
antennee with 43 joints, the terminal 10 forming a moderate club; palpi moderately 
hairy, of nearly equal thickness throughout, middle joint slightly swollen towards the 
distal end, terminal joint about =4 middle joint, blunt at the end with an apical cavity ; 
this joint is rather longer in the female than the male; eyes smooth. The male 
secondary sexual organs have a tegumen, with two swollen masses at its proximal end, 
each of which bears a long spike directed outwards straight along the dorsal edge ; but 
with a deep keel along the ventral surface. The harpagones have a simple rounded 
lobe at the end, and a pointed lobe directed downwards inside the surface of each 
harpago, and situated at about one third of its length from the end. From the outer 
edge of each side of the tegumen near its base a rod starts first in a downward direction 
and then turned outwards till it meets and apparently unites with the corresponding 
rod of the other side, and thus seems to act as a support to the penis. This organ is 
curved as in 7imetes, and, as in that genus, has a rod extending from the hinge of the 
harpagones to the middle of its curve. In the interior of the penis, where this rod 
meets it, are some erect papille starting from the lower edge. ‘These may be homo- 
logous with the external papille so prominent in the penis of Amphirene superba; but 
the point requires closer investigation. The under surface of the penis near the end is 
lacerated. On the whole these organs resemble those of Amphirene in having a tegumen 
with two spines, instead of a single one as in Timetes. ‘The harpagones, too, are much 
like those of Amphirene; the penis itself and the structural arrangements more 
immediately connected with it are more like those of Zimetes than those of any other 
genus we have hitherto investigated. 
