NYMPHALINAE: THE GENUS CINCLIDIA. 667 



CINCLIDIA IIUBNEK. 



Ciiiclidia Iluhn.. Vorz. bck. schraett., 29 Mellicta Billh., Eiium. ins., 77 (1820). 



(1816). Limnacciii Scudd., Syst. rev. Amer. butt., 



Melitaoa (pars) Auctoruiii. 26 (1872). 



Type.—Papilio phoebe Schiff. 



O butterfly on whose li.i^lit \vin}?s 

 The golden summer sunshine clings; 



O moon aud sun that beam and burn, — 

 Keep safe my Love till I return! 



Gilder. — Sweet Wild Hoses. 



Imago (54 : 4). Head large, furnished with rather long, sparse, erect hairs. Front 

 slightly tumid, scarcely at all pi'otuberant below, barely surpassing the front of the 

 eyes,altttlc broader than high, not nearly so broad as the eyes, the upper border 

 roundly excavated in front and sloping considerably toward the antennal pits ; lower 

 border sharply rounded. Vertex pretty large, a little tumid, but also slightly flattened 

 above, especially posteriorly, just reaching the level of the summit of the eyes, 

 scarcely, if at all, broader than long, the sides narrowing but little, the posterior 

 border scarcel)'^ rounder, the anterior sloping considerably toward the antennal pits. 

 Eyes rather large, moderately full, naked. Antennae inserted with the middle of their 

 posterior half in the middle of the summit, in deep, spacious, distinct, scarcely con- 

 nected pits, separated by a space equal to the diameter of the summit of the second 

 antennal joint ; considerably longer than the abdomen, composed of about thirty-three 

 joints, of which the last twelve or thirteen form the club, which is strongly depressed, 

 fully four times as broad as the stalk, about three and a half times longerthan broad, 

 oblong ovate, increasing rather rapidly at the base, well rounded at tip, four or five 

 joints entering into the diminution of size, with no noticeable carina beneath. Palpi 

 long, and moderately stout, scarcely twice as long as the eye, directed upward and 

 considerably forward, the last joint nearly half as long as the penultimate, clothed 

 with recumbent scales and a very few slightly raised hairs, while the other joints are 

 furnished, both above and below, with a very long and rather dense fringe of long, 

 erect, forward reaching hairs and scales, all in a vertical plane. 



Prothoracic lobes rather small, strongly appressed, scarcely more so exteriorly than 

 interiorly, the upper surface well rounded, the ends well rounded and nearly equal, 

 more than twice as high as long and rather more than three times as broad as high. 

 Patagia moderately broad and rather long, scarcely three times as long as broad, the 

 posterior lobe curving a little outward, moderately broad, tapering and terminating 

 in a bluntly pointed tip. 



Fore wings (39: 3) two-thirds as long again (J) or nearly twice as long ($) as 

 broad ; costal margin slightly convex on the basal fifth, most prominent at about one- 

 fourth the distance from the base ; beyond nearly straight, the angle rounded off; outer 

 border considerably and pretty regularly convex above the upper median nervule, 

 below that nearly straight, in general having a direction at an angle of about 60° with the 

 apical half of the costal border ; inner border straight, the angle rounded off. First 

 superior subcostal nervule arising shortly before the apex of the cell ; the second at 

 one-quarter the distance from the base of the first to the outer border ; the third not 

 so far from the second as that is from the apex of the cell ; the fourth at fully two- 

 thirds the distance from the base of the first to the outer border, and as far from the 

 third as the second is from the first ; second inferior subcostal ner^oile arising at 

 about a third way down the cell ; this is about two-fifths the length of the wing 

 and two and a half times longer than broad. Last median nervure connected at a 

 short distance from its base with the vein closing the cell. 



Hind wings with the costal border considerably and roundly expanded next the 



