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Genus XV. SYNCHLOE Boisd. MSS. 



Nymphalis God'. 

 Abaschnia Geyer. 



Head moderately wide, hairy. 



Eyes round, slightly prominent. 



Maxilla; slender, about two thirds the length of the body. 



Labial Palpi rather elongated, slightly divergent and ascending, projecting considerably beyond 

 the forehead ; scaly, and in front hairy ; the back of the second joint also hairy, but without 

 any marked tuft. First joint curved, subcylindric, about one third the length of the second ; 

 second joint rather stoutest towards the middle, tapering thence to the apex ; third joint 

 longer than the first, slender, almost acicular, its base broader than the apex of the second 

 joint. 



Antennas sometimes about two thirds the length of the body, terminating in an elongate oval, rather 

 abrupt, club, rounded at the apex. 

 Thorax moderate, oval, clothed with scales and long hairs. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular ; the apex somewhat truncate ; the anterior margin slightly rounded ; 

 the outer about two thirds the length of the anterior margin, rounded, sometimes slightly 

 emarginate below the middle ; the inner margin equal in length to the outer, straight, or nearly 

 so. Costal nervure stout, extending slightly beyond the middle of the wing. Subcostal nervure 

 more slender, lying near to the costal, throwing off its first branch before the end of the cell ; 

 its second at some distance beyond it ; its third at a point nearer to the origin of its second 

 than its fourth nervule, which last arises at about an equal distance from the third and the apex. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule short. Middle disco-cellular nervule curved inwards, and mostly 

 more than half the length of the lower, which latter joins the third median nervule not far from 

 its origin. Internal nervure wanting. 



Posterior Wings obovate ; the margins nearly equal ; the inner margin almost straight. Precostal 

 nervule simple, but little curved. Diseoidal nervule separating from the second subcostal close 

 to its origin. Cell open. Third median nervule but little curved. 



Anterior Legs of the male clothed with scales, a few of which are long and hair-like ; the femur 

 and tibia of about equal length, smooth. Tarsus one-jointed, about half the length of the tibia, fusi- 

 form. Anterior Legs of the female scaly. Femur longer than the tibia. Tarsus rather shorter than 

 the tibia, five-jointed. First joint nearly cylindric, unarmed, longer than the rest combined ; 

 second joint scarcely one fifth the length of the first, unarmed, cylindric, obliquely truncate ; 

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