14G 



NYMPHALID/E. 



directed slightly inwards, united to the third median nervule, which is bent at an obtuse angle 

 at the point of junction. 



Anterior Feet of the male with the tibia rather longer than the femur. Tarsus rather more than 

 half the length of the tibia, one-jointed, rather compressed, tapering to a point. Anterior Feet of 

 the female rather longer than those of the male ; the femur rather longer than the tibia ; the 

 latter smooth, about twice the length of the tarsus. Tarsus cylindric, four-jointed. First joint 

 nearly ten times the length of the second, third rather shorter than the second, all these with a 

 stiff spine on each side at the apex ; fourth joint minute. 



Middle and Posterior Legs with the femora and tibiae nearly equal in length, the former mostly 

 slightly longer than the latter, the latter spiny, the spurs distinct. Tarsi equal in length to the 

 tibia?, very spiny above and laterally. Claws rather small, not much curved. Paronychia bifid ; 

 the outer lacinia as long as the claAV, pointed, slender; inner lacinia of the same form but 

 shorter. Pulvillus jointed, as long as the claws. 

 Abdomen about equal in length to the inner margin of the posterior wings. 



Larva and Pupa unknown. 



The genus Eueides contains insects differing materially in the colour, and slightly in the form of the wings, but all 

 agreeing in those characters which are properly generic. In the neuration of the wings, especially in that of the 

 posterior, they closely resemble the genus Heliconia, but may at once be known by their shorter and abruptly clavate 

 antennae. From Acrnea they differ in the structure of the feet, and from Colasnis in having the discoidal cell of the 

 posterior wings closed. 



Some of the species, as Eueides Procula and Eueides Thales, closely resemble some of the Heliconian in colour ; 

 others, as Eueides Isabella, by their fulvous brown wings longitudinally marked with black, resemble some 

 species of Mechanitis and the Lycoreas. Eueides Aliphera and its allies on the other hand, in the peculiar fulvous 

 colour and the markings of both the upper and under surface, resemble the first section of Colsenis. 



The habits of some of the species resemble those of the Heliconian, but they are insects of more rapid flight, 

 especially Eueides Julia and Eu. Aliphera. Their geographical distribution appears to be the same, with the 

 exception of the West Indian Islands, from which as yet I have seen no species of the present genus. Several 

 undescribed species exist in collections. 



EUEIDES. 



Section I. Anterior Wings with thejirst subcostal nervule thrown 

 off at (he end of the cell. 



1. Eu. Thai.es. 



P. Til. Cram. t. 38. f. C. D. (1775). 



Fab. Ent. Syst. in. i. 168. n. 521. (1793). 

 Migonitis Th. Hiibn. Vcrz. bek. Schmett. 12. 



(1816). 

 Heliconia Th. Godt. Ene. M. ix. 20(>. n. 11. 

 (1819). 

 Guiana. B. M. 



2. Eu. Procula Doubleday Sj Hewitson, Gen. of Lepidoptera, 



t. 20. f. 1. (1847). 

 Venezuela. B. M. 



3. Eu. Vibilia. 



Cethosia Vib. Godt. Eur. M. rx . 245. n. (!. 



(1819)- 

 Acraea Vib. Godt. Suppl. 806. (1823). 

 Colienis Vib. Hiibn. Zut. f. 4l-<). i',0. (1822). 

 Semelia Vib. Boisd. MSS. 



E. Doubleday, List of Lep. Ins. of Brit. Mas. 

 64. (1845). 

 Brazil. B. M. 



4. Eu. Mereaui. 



Cola>nis Mer. Hiibn. Zutr. f. 201, 202. (1821). 



