198 NYMPH ALID7E. 



Genus XX. VANESSA. 



Vanessa Fabr., Latr., God'., fyc. 

 Eugonia, Inachis, Hiibn. 



Head of moderate width, densely clothed with long hairs. 



Eyes more or less oval, densely hairy. 



Maxillce about two thirds the length of the body. 



Labial Palpi porrect, ascending, projecting considerably beyond the forehead, scaly and densely 

 hairy all round. First joint scarcely two fifths the length of the second, subcylindric, much 

 curved ; second joint more or less swollen beyond the middle, thence tapering to the apex, which 

 is obliquely truncate ; third joint fully two fifths the length of the second, slender, subcylindric, 

 or nearly acicular, more or less pointed at the apex. 



Antennae about three fourths the length of the bod_y, with two distinct grooves below ; the club 

 rather short, gradually tapering at its origin ; the last joint minute, pointed. 

 Thorax moderately stout, clothed with long hairs. 



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

 deeply emarginate at the shoulder. Outer margin about three fourths the length of the anterior, 

 sinuate, emarginate. Inner margin nearly straight, slightly longer than the outer. Costal 

 nervure rather stout, extending about to the middle of the anterior margin. Subcostal nervure 

 not much slenderer than the costal, and separated from it by a short interval ; its first and 

 second nervules thrown off close together, and but little before the end of the cell; the third 

 arising at about tAvo thirds of the distance from the base to the apex, and terminating 

 close to the apex ; the fourth rather nearer to the origin of the third than to the outer margin. 

 Upper disco-cellular nervule very short, all but wanting ; the middle disco-cellular likewise 

 short. Lower disco-cellular atrophied, or nearly so ; its position indicated by a faint line, 

 sometimes showing the rudiment of a nervule, which arises from the second discoidal nervule, 

 not far from its origin, and runs obliquely downwards to the third median nervule. Internal 

 nervule wanting. 



Posterior Wings somewhat obovate. Inner margin the longest. Anterior and outer margins about 

 equal ; the former more or less rounded ; the latter more or less sinuate, dentate, prolonged into 

 a tooth or short tail at the termination of the third median nervule. Precostal nervule simple. 

 Discoidal nervule arising from the second subcostal, soon after its origin. 



Anterior Legs of the male with the femur and tibia about equal in length ; the latter rather stouter 

 than the former. Tarsus of the same length as the tibia, subcylindric, or slightly tapering 

 towards the apex, sometimes with one or two strangulations near the middle. Anterior Legs of 



