PAMPIIILIDI: THE GENUS POLITES. 1679 



of tlie basal joint, two aiul a half times longer than broad, equalling the diameter of 

 the eye ; terminal joint placed at the middle of the summit of the middle joint, slender, 

 straight, cylindrical, bluntly rounded at either extremity, from Ave to six times as 

 long as broad, and as long as the breadth of the middle joint. 



Prothoracic lobes rather small, subtriangular, the inner and lower edges nearly 

 straight and equal, the upper outer side being pretty regularly arcuate, as long as the 

 shorter diameter of the eye, fully half as long again as high. Patagia of moderate 

 size, somewhat shorter than the breadth of the head, the posterior lobe scarcely more 

 than one-third as broad as the l)ase, half as long again as it, equal, straight, slightly 

 narrowed at the rounded tip. 



Fore wing (42 : Vi) much less than twice as long as broad, the lower outer angle 

 falling well outside the middle of the costal margin ; costal margin distinctly though 

 very slightly concave, at least in the male ; outer margin rather gently and regularly 

 rounded. The costal nervure terminating scarcely beyond the middle of the costal 

 in.argin; subcostal nervure moderately approximate to the costal margin, the second 

 nervule arising in the middle of the wing; median nervules arising as in Atalopedes; 

 internal nervure short, straight, with an obscure connection with the submediau ner- 

 vure. 



Hind wing a fifth longer than broad, the basal lobe very large ; costal margin straight 

 to the tip of the costal nervure; outer margin well rounded, fullest in the medio-sub- 

 median interspace, the anal angle rectangular, well rounded. Subcostal nervure fork- 

 ing shortly before the median, the median at no great distance before the second 

 forking, which is itself before the centre of the wing. 



Discal stigma of male consisting of an interrupted, gently arcuate or sinuate streak 

 of dead black retrorse scales or rods edged below, especially in the middle, with a 

 border of similar, but dust colored erect rods and followed beneath by an iuconspicuous, 

 large area of loosely compacted, erect, dusky scales. The scales of the stigma consist, 

 in the heart, of jointed threads only, while at the base are found a considerable variety 

 of spatulate and two-pronged rods and scales and triangular, apically truncate scales, 

 which are replaced in the field below the stigma by slender, triangular scales with a 

 roundly produced apex. 



Legs 2, 3, 1. Femora and tibiae clothed as in Anthomaster, but with inconspicuous 

 tibial spines on the upper surface. Femora 2, 1, 3; tibiae 2, 3, 1; tarsi 2, 3, 1. Fore 

 and hind femora more than two-thirds as long as the middle femora. Fore tibiae two- 

 thirds the length of the fore femora, fully half the length of the^middle and hind tibiae. 

 Leaf-like appendage of fore tibiae long and slender, lanceolate, attached at the middle of 

 the outer four-fifths of the joint and surpassing its extremity, fully five times as long as 

 broad, tapering, pointed, and a little curved; other tibiae armed at the tip with a pair 

 of very long and very slender, more or less unequal spurs, the hiud tibiae with a simi- 

 lar pair in the middle of the outer two-thirds ; both tibiae have three or four very long 

 spines ranged in a row on the under edge of the outer side. Tarsal joints 1, 2, 3, 4,5; 

 fore tarsi nearly four-fifths as long as the middle and hind tarsi, a little longer than 

 the middle femora, all furnished with a triple row of pretty long, delicate spines, the 

 apical ones of each joint a little longer than the others ; basal joint nearly as long as 

 all the rest together ; second nearly or quite half as long as the basal. Claws pretty 

 small, compressed, tapering, strongly and regularly arcuat?. Pad not very large, 

 transverse. Paronychia bilobed ; the upper lobe laminate, compressed, of the size and 

 shape of the claw but less arcuate and not so pointed; the lower slender and equal, a 

 little more than half as long as the other. 



Abdominal appendages : Upper organ somewhat resembling that of Hylephila 

 being slender, depressed, well arched, and thrust far backward. Hooks connate, 

 tapering a little, blunt at tip, slightly upcurved; lateral arms nearly obsolete, closely 

 appressed to sides of hook. Clasps broad, sabre-shaped, not so long as the upper 

 organ, equal nearly to the tip, the extremity of the upper margin incurved, making 

 the upper posterior angle abrupt. 



