182 XYMPHALID.E. 



Genus XIV. ERESIA Boisd. 

 Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. t. 11. f. 8. (1836). 



Heliconia, Ajrgynnis, Nymphalis, Got I 1 . 

 Melimea, Neptis, Acca, Eiibn. 



Head of moderate width, scaly. 



Eyes oval, prominent. 



Maxillce slender, longer than the thorax. 



Labial Palpi very divergent, ascending, rising considerably above the forehead. Basal joint short, 

 curved, broadest at the base, clothed with loose scales and hairs ; second elongate, swollen in 

 the middle, clothed especially in front with long loose scales, and furnished on the back with 

 a tuft of long hairs, the apex truncate ; third joint slender, acicular, about two fifths the length 

 of the second, clothed with short closely appressed scales. 



Antenna slender, short, scarcely two thirds the length of the body ; the club short, abrupt, 

 compressed. 

 Thorax small, oval or rounded, scaly, hairy at the sides. 



Anterior Wings elongate ; the anterior margin rounded at the base, thence nearly straight to the 

 apex, which is rounded ; the outer margin about one half the length of the anterior, much 

 rounded ; the inner margin scarcely emarginate, about two thirds the length of the anterior. 

 Costal nervure stout, not extending much beyond the middle of the wing. Subcostal nervure 

 rather remote from the costal, five-branched ; its first nervule thrown off before the end of the 

 cell ; its second at more than an equal distance beyond it ; the third considerably nearer to the 

 second than to the fourth. Cell short, not extending to the middle of the wing. Upper 

 disco-cellular very short. Middle disco-cellular short, not one half the length of the lower, 

 curved. Lower disco-cellular curved at its origin, then directed outwards to the third median 

 nervule, which it joins not far from its origin. Internal nervure wanting. 



Posterior Wings triangular, the margins but little rounded ; the outer about four fifths the length 

 of the anterior, sometimes slightly sinuate ; the inner not two thirds the length of the anterior, 

 embracing the abdomen. Precostal nervule simple, curved outwards. Cell open. Discoidai 

 nervure separating from the second subcostal immediately after the origin of the latter. Third 

 median nervule nearly straight. 

 Anterior Legs of the male scaly, and fringed with delicate hairs. Tibia equal in length to the 

 femur. Tarsus shorter than the tibia, nearly cylindric, showing very indistinct indications of 



