220 NYMPHALIL\E. 



Genus XXVI. MYSCELIA. 



Myscelia Boisd. MSS. 



Libythea, Biblis, Vanessa, Nyjiphalis, God'. 

 Sagaeitis, Temenis, Eunica, Catonephele, Hiibn. 

 Cybdelis, Crenis, &c. Boisd 



Head considerably narrower than the thorax, densely hairy. 



Eyes rather small, prominent, oval, smooth. 



Labial Palpi projecting considerably beyond the forehead, approximating, ascending ; the third 

 joint pointing directly forward ; all the joints scaly ; the second with a dorsal tuft. First joint 

 short, much curved, about one third the length of the second ; second joint nearly cylindric, 

 rounded at the apex, very slightly curved ; third joint about half the length of the second, 

 subcorneal, the base rounded. 



Maxillce rather slender, longer than the thorax. 



Antennce about three fourths the length of the body, rather slender, terminating in a gradually 

 incrassated compressed club, marked below with two distinct grooves. 

 Thorax not robust, oval, scaly, and hairy. 



Anterior Wings subtriangular ; the apex more or less truncate. Anterior margin moderately 

 curved. Outer margin shorter than the inner, more or less emarginate. Inner margin about 

 three fourths the length of the outer, nearly straight. Costal nervure more or less swollen at 

 the base, extending to the middle of the costa, curved towards its termination. Subcostal 

 nervure very slender at its origin, lying close to the costal; its first nervule, at its origin, 

 distant from the upper disco-cellular about one fourth the length of the cell ; its second arising 

 about midway between the first and the end of the cell ; its third at about one third of the 

 distance between the cell and the apex of the wing, terminating at the apex ; its fourth midway 

 between the third and the outer margin. Cell less than half the length of the wing. Upper 

 disco-cellular nervule very short. Middle disco-cellular nervule rather short. Lower disco-cellular 

 nervule slender, sometimes nearly atrophied, united to the third median nervule near to its 

 origin. Median nervure more or less swollen at its origin ; its third nervule, mostly, considerably 

 curved at its origin. 



Posterior Wings more or less obovate. Anterior margin mostly much produced at the shoulder, 

 thence nearly straight. Outer margin rounded, slightly sinuate dentate, or sinuate and produced 

 into a tooth at the end of the third median nervule, sometimes slightly produced at the anal 

 angle. Precostal nervule simple, curved forward. Discoidnl nervure arising from the second 



