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Genus XIV. GONEPTERYX Leach. 

 Leach, Edin. Enc. ix. 128. (1810). 



Rhodocera Boisduval, Sp. Gen. i. 597. (1836). 



Colias Fab., Latr., Hiibn., God*. <Sfc. 



Piekis Schrank. 



Ganoeis Dolman. 



Anteos Hiibn. 



Amynthia Swainson. 



Goniapteryx West-wood. 



Head broad, densely clothed with erect hairs. 



Eyes round, rather prominent. 



Labial Palpi longer than the head, clothed with short scales. The first joint curved, compressed 

 internally ; second joint at least half as long as the first, subcylindric, tapering, or elongate-oval, 

 compressed internally ; third joint minute, rounded or oval, placed a little below the apex of the 

 second. 



Antenna? short, stout, mostly channeled below, gradually thickened towards the apex, which is 

 truncate. 

 Thorax stout, clothed with fine hair. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular, mostly falcate at the apex ; the costa much curved near the base. 

 The costal nervure stout ; subcostal four-branched ; its first nervule thrown off about the middle 

 of the cell, the second just before the end of the cell, the third about midway between the end 

 of the cell and the apex of the wing. First discoidal nervule united to the subcostal for some 

 distance beyond the cell, middle disco-cellular less than half the length of the lower. Submedian 

 nervure curved downwards near the base. Internal nervure short, running into the submedian. 



Posterior Wings mostly angular, sometimes obovate. Precostal nervule simple, mostly merely 

 rudimentary. Discoidal nervure appearing to be a third subcostal nervule. Abdominal channel 

 very distinct and ample. 



Legs rather short. Claws deeply bifid. Paronychia about as long as the claws. Pulvillus 

 sometimes wanting. 



Abdomen rather stout, not so long as the abdominal margin of the posterior wings. 



