NYMPHALIDAE: SATYRINAE. 1783 



NEOXYMPHA HUBNER. 



NEONYMPHA CORNELIUS. 



fapilio Cornelius Fabr., ent. syst., iii: 220 Butt. east. U. S., 235-2.37 (1886). 



(1793). Sati/rus gemma Boisd.-LeC, L6p. am6r, 



Neonympha Cornelius SunM., Bull. Bull". sept., pi. 62, figs. 1-5 (1833). 



soc. nat. sc, ii: 244 (1875). Coenoni/mpha gemma Edw., Can. eut., xi: 



Neonympha geimna Hiibu., Zutr. samral. 31-35(1870). 

 exot. schmett., i : S, figs. 7-8 (1818) ; — French, 



Imago. Head covered with mingled dark brown, pallid and pale luteous hairs; the 

 palpi with numerous longer or shorter black scales and hairs, especially aljove and be- 

 low, leaving a very pale yellowish line along the outer and inner edge ; the inside of 

 the long inferior fringe wholly whitish ; the basal tliird of the antennae blackish brown, 

 the basal half of each joint flecked on the inner side with white scales, the coloring 

 being broadest at the base, wliile a few white scales are scattered over the entire upper 

 surface which, beyond the basal third, is dark brownish luteous ; beneath, the antennae 

 are clear luteous, excepting the last three or four joints of the club which are uniform 

 brown throughout; tips of the joints upon the club brown above. 



"Wings above moderately dark mouse-brown, uniform on all the wings, excepting that 

 the dark markings of the outer margin of the under surface of the hind wings are 

 more or less repeated above in blackish brown clouds, especially in the interspaces be- 

 yond the cell, and that there is a denser flecking of the dark scales on the upper half of 

 the outer margin of the fore wings, giving a slightly darker tone at this point; fringe 

 concolorous, but made up of mingled lighter and darker brown scales and hairs. Under 

 surface gray brown with an olivaceous tint, arising from a dense and uniform clothing 

 of delicate olivaceous hairs ; the surface more or less faintly and very minutely mottled 

 and showing faintly traced upon the surface three fine, brown, transverse tlireads, sub- 

 parallcil to each other and the outer border ; the middle one crosses the wing, bent at the 

 main subcostal nervure a little beyond the outer limit of the cell so as to cut oil', at the 

 base of the outer median interspace, a rliomboidal piece of equal sides ; the outer 

 thread is obscure in tlie upper half of the wing, and in tlie lower half runs a little 

 nearer the border than the mesial line, while the inner is at a slightly greater distance 

 within the mesial line; these markings exist, or at least the inner pair, in a still more 

 obscure or modified foi-ra upon the hind wings, but the principal markings of these 

 consist of a large, oval, variegated patcl^at the margin of the wing, almost entirely 

 ■within the subcostal and median interspaces, the ground of which is a cinnamon brown, 

 heavily flecked with white scales and wliite hairs in place of olivaceous ones; but in 

 addition there is in the middle of all the interspaces, excepting the lower half of the 

 medio-submedian, a marginal series of sliort, thick, often confluent, longitudinal, 

 minute patches of brilliant silvery nacreous scales, those in the upper median and sub- 

 costo-median interspaces lying confluent at the outer edge of a transverse, long oval, 

 velvety blaclc spot, edged narrowly with yellow scales and cut by yellow nervures into 

 four subequal spots, to the centre of each of which a tongue of nacreous scales extends ; 

 at the upper inner border of this large variegated patch the cinnamon brown of the 

 ground becomes conspicuous, since here is the point where it unites with the trans- 

 verse mesial stripe which, influenced by this patch, is here deflected somewhat from its 

 course to form an arching margin to it. Expanse of wings, 34-38 mm. 



The following descriptions of the early stages by Edwards are given nearly in his 

 own words : — 



Egg. Subglobular, as high as broad, the base flattened; surface under a low 

 power smooth, but under a high one seen to be reticulated througliont in irregular 

 hexagons, the sides of which have broad flanks that occupy nearly all the interior, 



