Genus Neominois 
and dark-brown scales, on the inner edge relieved by a number 
of imperfectly developed ocelli, which are partially ringed about 
on the side of the base by pale yellow. 
Early Stages. — Unknown. 
Tritonia occurs in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. 
Genus NEOMINOIS, Scudder 
Butterfly.— Medium-sized, with the costa and inner margin 
of the fore wing straight, the outer margin of the same wing 
evenly rounded. The hind wings have the outer margin evenly 
rounded, and the costal margin quite strongly produced, or bent 
at an angle, just above the origin of the costal vein. The 
inner margin is straight. The costal vein of the fore wing is 
slightly swollen. The costal margin at the extremity of the 
second costal nervule is slightly bent in¬ 
ward; the upper discocellular vein is 
wanting; the lower radial vein is emit¬ 
ted from the lower discocellular a little 
below the point at which it unites with 
the middle discocellular. The middle 
discocellular of the hind wing appears 
as an inward continuation of the lower 
radial for some distance, when it bends 
upward suddenly to the origin of the 
upper radial. The head is small; the an¬ 
tennae are short, with a thin, gradually 
developed club; the palpi are slender, 
Fig. 120.—Neuration of the ge- compressed, well clothed with long hairs 
nus Neominois , enlarged. r ° 
below. 
The egg is somewhat barrel-shaped, broader at the 
base than at the top, with the summit rounded. The sides are 
ornamented with fourteen or fifteen vertical raised ridges, which 
are quite broad, and sometimes fork or run into each other. On 
the sides these ridges seem to be regularly excised at their bases, 
and between them on the surface are many horizontal raised 
cross-lines, giving the depressed surface the appearance of being 
filled with shallow cells. 
Caterpillar .—The mature caterpillar has the head globular, 
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