212 NYMPH ALID.E. 



Genus XXIII. CYNTHIA. 



Cynthia Fab. 

 Anartia Hiibn. 

 Vanessa God 1 ., &c. 



Head of moderate width, hairy. 



Eyes oval, not prominent. 



Maxillce considerably longer than the thorax. 



Labial Palpi ascending, convergent, the third joint directed almost immediately forwards. First 

 joint short, much curved, scaly, with one or two seta; in front ; second joint three times the 

 length of the first, much swollen beyond the middle, rounded at the apex, scaly, and thickly 

 set in front and externally with long seta? ; third joint ovate, about one fifth the length, 

 and half the breadth, of the first joint, scaly, the scales appressed. 



Antenna? fully three fourths the length of the body, terminating in a gradually thickened, short, 

 rather slender club. 

 Thorax elongate oval, hairy ; prothorax very distinct. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular. Anterior margin considerably curved. Outer and inner margins 

 about equal in length ; the former emarginate, sinuate ; the latter very slightly emarginate. 

 Costal nervure extending to the middle of the anterior margin. Subcostal nervure slender, 

 lying close to the costal as far as the end of the cell, five-branched ; its first and second 

 nervules thrown off close together ; the first a little before, the second immediately beyond, the 

 end of the cell ; the third rather nearer to the second than to the apex ; the fourth shortly 

 beyond the third. Cell not half the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular nervule very 

 short, directed obliquely outwards. Middle disco-cellular about half the length of the lower, 

 nearly straight, directed obliquely inwards. Lower disco-cellular curving inwards, joining 

 the third median nervule soon after its origin ; this latter subsequently considerably curved. 

 Internal nervure wanting. 



Posterior Wings with the anterior margin much rounded, shorter than the outer, which is also 

 much rounded, sinuate, often with a short tail in which the third median nervule terminates. 

 Inner margin equal to the outer, forming a deep channel for the reception of the abdomen. 

 Precostal nervule bifid. Costal not much curved near its origin. Cell open. Discoidal 

 nervure curved at its separation from the second subcostal nervule. 



Anterior Legs of the male rather slender. Femur and tibia of about equal length, the latter 

 nearly cylindric, obliquely truncate at its apex, clothed with scales and a few scattered seta;. 

 Tarsus half as long as the tibia, nearly cylindric, mucronate at the apex. Anterior Legs of 

 the female with the femur and tibia of about equal length, rather slender, seal}' ; the latter 



