248 NYMI'HALID.E. 



Genus XXXVI. GYN^CIA Boisd. 



Gynjecia Boisd. MS. 

 Nymphalis God'. 

 Tigridia Hiibn. 



Head rather broad, hairy. 



Eyes oval, moderately prominent, smooth. 



Maxillce rather longer than the thorax. 



Labial Palpi porrect, ascending, projecting considerably beyond the forehead ; scaly, the scales of 

 the first joint elongate, those towards the apex of the second forming a slight dorsal tuft. 

 First joint curved, subcylindric, truncate at the apex, stouter than the second, and nearly half 

 its length ; second joint subcylindric, slightly curved, rather stouter just before the apex, which 

 is obliquely truncate ; third joint subconic, the base rounded, the apex pointed, more than 

 one third the length of the second joint. 



Antenna? fully three fourths the length of the body, rather slender, terminating in a rather short 

 gradually incrassated club, grooved below, its apex obtusely pointed. 

 Thorax oval, moderately stout, scaly, and hairy ; the sides of the metathorax densely hairy. 



Anterior Wings trigonate. Anterior margin moderately curved. Outer margin nearly straight, 

 about three fourths the length of the anterior. Inner margin nearly straight, rather longer 

 than the outer. Costal nervure moderately stout at its origin, terminating considerably before 

 the middle of the anterior margin. Subcostal nervure slender ; its first and second nervules 

 arising close together just before the end of the cell, the first terminating almost exactly at the 

 middle of the anterior margin; its third nervule arising exactly opposite to the termination of 

 the costal nervure, ending at the apex ; its fourth nearer to the apex than to the origin of the 

 third. Cell very short, not one third the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular nervule 

 extremely short; middle ditto very short, straight; lower ditto five times the length of 

 the middle disco-cellular nervule, nearly atrophied, especially the lower portion, curved 

 inwards, directed obliquely outwards to the origin of the third median nervule. Third median 

 nervule considerably curved upwards. 



Posterior Wings with the anterior margin much rounded; the outer margin shorter than the 

 anterior, nearly straight from the apex to a little beyond the second median nervule, then 

 [.induced into a short rounded tail or palette. Precostal nervule simple. Discoidal nervure 

 arising from the second subcostal nervule soon after its origin, slightly angled where the slender 

 almost atrophied disco-cellular unites with it. Third median nervule curved. 



