PELIA. 22!) 



Genus XXIX. PELIA. 



Nymphalis Cod'. 



Head moderately broad, hairy. 



Eyes oval, not very prominent, smooth. 



Maxillae slender, longer than the thorax. 



Labial Palpi porrect, ascending, projecting considerably beyond the head, scaly ; the scales short, 

 appressed, except in front of the first, and at the back of the second, joint towards its apex, 

 where they are long and loose. First joint short, rounded at the apex, clothed with long scales ; 

 second joint more than three times the length of the first, slightly curved, incrassated beyond the 

 middle, but diminishing again towards the apex, which is truncate, clothed with appressed 

 scales, and furnished with a slight dorsal tuft ; third joint clothed with short appressed scales, 

 slenderer than the second, nearly one half its length, almost fusiform ; the base rounded ; the 

 apex acute. 



Antennce about three fourths the length of the body, slender, terminating in a short, gradual, 

 slender, obtuse club. 

 Thorax rather stout, oval, hairy. 



Anterior Wings trigonate. Anterior margin but little curved. Outer margin nearly straight, 

 slightly crenulate, less than two thirds the length of the anterior margin, and about three 

 fourths that of the inner margin. Inner margin nearly straight. Costal nervure stout, rather 

 swollen at the base, ending about the middle of the anterior margin. Subcostal nervure slender, 

 only four-branched ; its first nervule arising just before the end of the cell, and extending very 

 nearly to the apex of the wing ; its second nervule arising about midway between the origin of the 

 first and the apex, and terminating at the apex ; its third arising nearer to the apex than to the 

 origin of the second, terminating on the outer margin below the apex. Upper disco-cellular 

 nervule wanting. Middle disco-cellular nervule short, angled. Lower disco-cellular nervule 

 slender, fully double the length of the middle disco-cellular nervule, curved inwards, united to 

 the third median nervule near to its origin. Median nervure slightly swollen at the base ; its 

 third nervule not much curved. 



Posterior Wings obovate. Outer margin slightly crenate. Precostal nervure bifid ; the inner 

 branch short, straight ; the outer curved, nearly reaching the anterior margin. Discoidal 

 nervure separating from the second subcostal nervule at some distance from its base, considerably 

 curved at its origin. Cell closed by a slender disco-cellular nervule, which arises from the 

 discoidal nervure a little way from its origin, and terminates at the separation of the second and 

 third median nervules. 



