224 nymphalim:. 



Genus XXVII. EPIPHILE. 



Epiphile Boisd. MSS. 

 Temenis Hiibn. 

 Nymphalis God 1 . 



Head moderately broad, very bairy. 



Eyes round, ratber prominent, densely clothed with hairs. 



Maxilla? longer than the thorax, slender. 



Labial Palpi projecting more than half their length beyond the head, porrect, moderately ascending, 

 scaly; the scales mostly long, hair-like, appressed, those on the back of the second joint longer 

 and less appressed than the rest. Basal joint very short, its length but little exceeding its 

 breadth, obliquely truncate at the apex ; second joint more than three times the length of the 

 first, curved slightly at the base, thickening towards the apex, which is truncate ; third joint 

 two thirds the length of the second, elongate, subconic, the base rounded. 



Antenna? about three fourths the length of the body, grooved below, terminating in a short 

 spatulate club. 

 Thorax oval, moderately stout, hair}'. 



Anterior Wings trigonate, the apex truncate. Anterior margin curved. Outer margin about two 

 thirds the length of the anterior margin, emarginate about the middle, produced before the 

 middle, so as to cause the apex of the wing to be broadly truncate. Inner margin about three 

 fourths the length of the outer, nearly straight. Costal nervure not swollen, but rather stout at 

 its origin, extending to the middle of the costa. Subcostal nervure slender, lying close to the 

 costal ; its first nervule, at its origin, distant from the upper disco-cellular about one fourth the 

 length ; its second arising about midway between the first and the end of the cell ; the third at 

 about one third of the distance between the end of the cell and the apex of the wing, where it 

 terminates ; the fourth arising midway between the origin of 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 curved, united to the third 

 median nervule at its origin. Median nervure rather stout, but not swollen at its base ; its 

 third nervule moderately curved. 



Posterior Wings more or less obovate. Anterior margin produced at the shoulder, thence nearly 

 straight or very slightly emarginate. Outer margin a little shorter than the anterior, rounded, 

 more or less sinuate, sometimes very slightly produced at the anal angle. Inner margin longer 

 than either of the others. Precostal nervule simple, curved forwards. Discoidal nervure 



