234 NYMPHALID.F. 



tapering towards the apex, which is rounded. Anterior Legs of the female slender, scaly. 

 Femur slightly thickest about the middle. Tibia a little longer than the femur, slightly 

 dilated before the apex. Tarsus nearly cylindric. First joint unarmed, considerably longer 

 than the rest combined ; second joint less than one third the length of the first, armed, as are 

 the two following joints, with two stout spines at the apex, these spines covered at their base 

 by a tuft of strong hairs at the base of the succeeding joints ; third and fourth progressively 

 shorter ; fifth about equal to the fourth, rounded at the apex. 

 Middle and Posterior Legs rather small ; the femora of the former longer, of the latter shorter, 

 than the tibiae. Tibiae subcylmdric, slightly curved, sometimes rather stouter towards the apex ; 

 armed with two interno-lateral series of spines placed rather widely apart, and also with a 

 similar external series ; the spurs of moderate length. Tarsi shorter than the tibiae, very spiny 

 below, except the fifth joint, the spines arranged somewhat in four series. First joint as long 

 as, or longer than, the rest combined ; second about one third or one fourth the length of the 

 first; third and fourth joints progressively shorter; fifth joint longer than the second, produced 

 above. Claws small, curved, grooved below. Paronychia with the outer lacinia very slender, 

 pointed, as long as the claw ; the inner triangular, nearly semicircular, emarginate, very hairy. 

 Pulvillus jointed, with the second joint, broad ; nearly as long as the claw. 

 Abdomen slender, about two thirds the length of the inner margin of the posterior wings. 



Larva and Pupa unknown. 



Eubagis differs from Haematera, as has already been remarked, in its hairy eyes, and also in the structure of its 

 wino-s and lei's. From Catagramma and Callicore it differs in the neuration of the wings as well as other characters. 

 The anterior wino-s have the first and second subcostal ncrvulcs thrown off before the end of the cell ; whilst in Cata- 

 o-ramma only one, and in Callicore no nervule arises before the end of the cell. The approximation of the costal 

 nervure to, or its union with, the first subcostal nervule is another distinctive character. 



The species composing this genus are of small size, and sometimes of very delicate structure, especially as regards 

 the wings ; they are, in fact, the smallest of the Nymphalidae, and much resemble some of the Erycinidas, in which 

 family, following Dr. Boisduval, I have formerly placed one species. 



The sexes often differ materially in the colour of the upper surface, and the species may be divided into two groups 

 by their colour, which division is also borne out by some slight differences in structure. The first group contains those 

 species of which the upper surface, in the male at least, is bronze green, as in Eubagis Postverta, the male of which 

 is of a bright, light, bronze green above, the apex of the anterior wings being varied with fuscous ; and that of the 

 female fuscous, more or less glossed with bronze, and spotted with white. The great difference in the sexes of this 

 species, and of Eubagis Serina, has caused the females to be considered as specifically distinct from the males. The 

 second group has the wings of a very delicate texture, semitransparent, and of a satiny white ; bordered or marked 

 near the margin to a greater or less degree with black, which, in the males, is often tinted with purple and steel blue. 

 The species of this group are difficult to discriminate ; but I hope that the note at the end of the list of species will 

 facilitate the determination of those which are known to me. 



In this group it may be said that there is no middle disco-cellular nervule, as the two discoidal nervules separate at 

 an acute angle, as regards one another, from the end of the upper disco-cellular nervule. In the posterior wings the 

 discoidal nervule springs from the very origin of the second subcostal nervule. The anterior tarsus of the male is 

 slender, and more pointed than in the first group. 



The genus is purely American, and is found from Mexico and the "West Indies southward to Rio Janeiro. I have 

 seen no specimens from the western slope of the Andes, but most probably it will be found in Peru. 



