192 NYMPHALID^. 



Genus XVIII. EUREMA Boisd. MSS. 



Vanessa, Nymphaeis, God 1 . <$fc. 

 Hypanartia Biibn. 



Head moderately broad, hairy. 



Eyes oval, not remarkably prominent, hairy. 

 Maxillce moderately stout, somewhat longer than the thorax. 



Labial Palpi porrect, ascending, projecting considerably beyond, and rising higher than, the 

 forehead, densely scaly, and slightly hairy, with a slight dorsal tuft on the second joint. First 

 joint short, curved, nearly as long as broad. Second joint three times the length of the first, 

 subcylindric, nearly equal in breadth at its base to the first, slenderer towards the apex, which is 

 rounded. Third joint subcylindric, placed a little below and in front of the apex of the second 

 joint, about equal in length to the first, and in breadth to the apex of the second joint ; its apex 

 pointed. 

 Antennae mostly about the same length as the body, terminating in a very short obtuse club. 

 Thorax oval, rather stout. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular ; the apex distinctly truncate. Anterior margin but little curved, 



about one fifth longer than the outer and inner margins, which are equal. Outer margin more 



or less profoundly sinuate and emarginate. Inner margin nearly straight. Costal nervure 



stout, extending beyond the middle of the wing. Subcostal nervure slender, throwing off its first 



nervule at a short distance from its second, which has its origin just before the end of the 



cell ; the third about midway between the end of the cell and the origin of the fourth nervule, 



which is nearer to the apex of the wing than to the origin of the third nervule ; fourth subcostal 



nervule terminating on the outer margin, a little below the apex. Upper disco-cellular nervule 



very short, as is also the middle disco-cellular. Lower disco-cellular long, about six times the 



length of the middle disco-cellular, anastomosing with the third median nervule considerably 



beyond its origin. Cell equal to half the length of the wing. Third median nervule much 



curved at the point where the lower disco-cellular nervule anastomoses with it. 



Posterior Wings subtriangular or subrhomboidal. Anterior margin considerably rounded towards 



the base. Outer margin rounded or angular, dentate, caudate-dentate, or caudate, rather longer 



than the anterior margin. Inner margin longer than the anterior ; the abdominal fold ample. 



Precostal nervure simple, or showing a rudiment of an external branch. Costal nervure much 



a relied at its origin. Discoidal nervure arising from the second subcostal nervide at a short 



distance from its origin; curved where the disco-cellular nervule anastomoses with it. Cell 



rather short; closed by a somewhat rudimentary disco-cellular nervule, which arises from the 



discoidal nervure at some distance from its origin, and anastomoses with the third median 



nervule at its origin. 



