SATYRINAE: THE GENUS NEONYMPIIA. 199 



XEONYMPHA lIUBNEli. 



Neoiiyinplia TIiil)ii., Verz. l>ok. solimott. Go (1810.) T>/j)e.—()reasflmbriata helicta Hubn. 



Tlieii ^rand and lcdIiIcii faiifios spring 

 From out my heart on splendid winj^. 

 Lilvc (Jlii-ysalis Ci-om Life's wintering, — 



Burst l>right and smnnuM-ingly, Love! 



Gkrai.o Massicy.— yl Zyrtc of Love. 



Imago (52 : 7). Head pretty large, covered aljovewitli atliinmass of nearly equal, 

 pretty long, erect hairs. Front a little tumid, a little prominent down the middle, 

 where it barely surpasses the front of the eyes, sliglitly hollowed above in tlie middle 

 of either latei-al half, a little narrower than the eyes, but somewhat broader than high, 

 S(iuarely terminated above, excepting in the middle, where a slender, naiTOAving 

 tongue passes between the antennae; the lower edge rounded, a little and broadly thick- 

 ened in the middle; vertex transverse quadrate, nearly flat, but irregularly so, both 

 in front and behind terminating abruptly by the falling of the edges, both of which 

 are straight; eyes pretty large and full, nearly circular, but sliglitly higher than l)road, 

 slightly truncate behind, scarcely angulated aljove, naked. Antennae inserted in the 

 middle of a not very broad, pretty deep pit, disconnecting the front and the occiput, 

 scarcely separated by the tongue of the front and touching the sides of the flanks out- 

 wardly; a little longer than the abdomen, composed of thirty-flve joints, scarcely in- 

 creasing in size on the middle of the outer half, and so gradually that it is impossible 

 to designate any exact portion as a club, the last joint rounded off apically; the club 

 slightly compressed, beneath slightly and distantly tricarinate. Palpi slender, two and 

 one-half times longer than the eye, strongly compressed, the apical half as long as the 

 middle joint ; excepting the apical joint, tufted beneath with very long hairs com- 

 pressed in a vertical plane. 



Prothoracic lobes entirely resembling those of Cissia, very minute, appressed, 

 transversely rounded above. Patagia a little and regularly convex, the posterior lobe 

 very broad, nearly twice as long as broad, tapering by the rapid rounding off of the 

 inner edge to a blunt point, the whole faintlj' falcate. 



Fore wings (38: 7) as in Cissia, but scarcely so rounded on the outer border; hind 

 wings as in the same, but with the outer border considerably more convex, being much 

 more rounded than the fore wings, while in Cissia they are similar ; the inner border 

 differs also in being less convex near the base, and less excised toward the tip. No 

 androconia. 



Fore legs excessively small, the tibiae scarcely more than one-sixth the length of the 

 hind tibiae; tarsi of the same length as the tibiae, in the $ composed of two joints, 

 of which the second is minute, and consists only of a conical protuberance a little 

 longer than broad, and not so long as the breadth of the truncate end of the first joint, 

 and both joints unarmed; in the$ it is similar j, but the first joint is broken into two, 

 the second less than one-half as long as first ; wholly unarmed except by long hairs 

 which diverge but little from the leg. Hind tibiae one-eighth longer than the middle 

 tibiae ; legs transversely quadrate or subcyliudric ; tibiae furnished beneath on either 

 side with a lateral row of delicate, rather infrequent, minute spines, the apical ones 

 produced to long and slender spurs; tarsi with the first joint longer than the second, 

 third and fourth together ; tliese diminish slightly in length in the order mentioned, 

 while the fifth is as long as the second; joints covered beneath Avith many minute 

 spines, the more conspicuous of which are those of the lateral rows, tliose at the tip of 

 the joints being larger and longer. Claws small and rather delicate, strongly and reg- 

 ularly curved, a little compressed, tapering, pointed ; paronychia arising from the heel 

 of the claws, half as long as they, slightly stouter and curving in an opposite direction 

 and not so strongly ; pad minute. 



