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palpi densely clothed in front with long, straight, bristly hairs. 

 Thorax oval, very finely hairy. Primaries large, entire, fringed 

 with fine hairs ; costal margin slightly arched, veins delicate. 

 Secondaries sub-triangular, costal margin arched, outer angle 

 rounded, anal angle rather obtuse, outer margin entirely fringed 

 with long hairs. Fore legs of the males small and feathery ; fore 

 legs of the females very small, slightly feathery. Four hind legs 

 short, scaly. Femurs slightly clothed with hairs, tibial spurs dis- 

 tinct, claws much curved, entire, slender. 



Larvce elongate, thickest in the middle, longitudinally strigose, 

 tail bifid. Chrysalis short and thick, with the head case rather 

 incurved and obtuse. 



1. N. eurythris Fab. Ent. Syst. Ill, 1, 137. N. cymela Cram. Figured 



iii Herbst, pi. 196. Cram. pi. 132. Boisd. et Lee. pi. (Jl. 



Wings entire, slightly brown on the upper side ; primaries, at 

 the extremity, with two black ocelli ; iris yellow ; double silvery 

 pupil. These spots are separated from the outer edge by a triple 

 blackish line. 



Upper side of secondaries with three ocelli ; the upper one small 

 and widely separated from the two below ; the middle one the 

 largest, and it alone having the double silvery pupil. 



The female has but two spots on the upper side of the secon- 

 daries. 



Under side paler, with two brown wavy lines traversing the 

 middle. Between the two ocelli, corresponding to those on the 

 upper side, there are two double silver points. 



Under side of secondaries has four spots, the upper and lower 

 of which are the smallest. There are also two intermediary silver 

 points, sometimes with an iris. Behind these spots are three 

 blackish lines. Body brownish ; antennas annulated with white 

 and black ; club ferruginous. 



United States. Expands an inch and a half. 



BOISD. 



2. N. gemma Hiibner. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. pi. 62. 



Wings entire ; upper side uniform pale brown, except on the 

 lower edge of the secondaries, where there are three or four 

 crescent-shaped black spots. 



