252 NYMrHALID^. 



3. Call. Amklia Boisduval 3fS. \\ *• Call. Sophonisba. 



Papilio Amelia Cram. t. 136. C. D.; Godart, Ene. M. is. Papilio Sophonisba Cramer, t. 295. A. B.; Godart, Enc. 



p. 418. (Nymphalis Am.); Hiihner, Vers. bek. Schmett. M. ix. p. 824. (Vanessa Soph.) ; Hiilmer, Fcrz. belt. 



n. 583. (Evonyme Am.). Schmett. n. 584. (Evonyme Sophonisba). 



Surinam. 11 Surinam. 



Genus XXXVIII. PYRRHOGYRA. 



Ptkrhogyea Hiibn. Verz. be/<. Schmett. 

 CoRTBAS Boisd. MS. 

 Nymphalis God'. 



Head rather small. 



Eyes very prominent, oval when seen sideways, naked. 



Forehead with a small tuft in front. 



Maxilla long and slender. 



Labial Palpi porrect, ascending ; those of the males being elevated to the level of the top of the head, elongate- 

 conic, and pointed, the terminal joint scarcely distinguishable from the pi-eceding, unless denuded of scales, 

 extendino- in front about the length of the head, covered with fine scales, the base with curved scaly hairs, and 

 the upper part of the middle joint witli a slightly defined tuft ; those of the female nearly twice as long as the 

 head, with the terminal joint elongate, slender, and horizontal. 



Antenna; slender, four fifths of the length of the entire body. Club rather small nnd gradually formed, 

 compressed and grooved. 

 Thorax moderately stout, clothed in front and behind with short woolly hairs. 



Tippets small. 



Pure Wings trigonate. Fore margin rather rounded. Outer margin more or less emarginate and sinuated, less so 

 in the females, two thirds of the length of the former. Hind margin nearly straight, and equal in length to 

 the outer margin. Costal vein terminating before reaching the middle of the costa. Subcostal vein rather 

 dilated at the base ; the first and second branches arising close together, considerably before the junction of the 

 costal vein with the costa ; the third and fourth branches being separated at their origin by a distance nearly 

 equal to that between the insertion of the second and third branches, and also between the fourth and the tip 

 of the wing. The upper disco-cellular veiulet* branches ofi' close below the insertion of the second branch of 

 the submedian; it is almost obsolete, the first dlscoidal vein arising almost at its base; the middle disco-cellular 

 is longer than the upper one, and oblique, but shorter than the lower disco-cellular, which is also oblique, and 

 closes the discoidal cell, uniting with the third branch of the median vein quite close to its origin, so that the 

 discoidal cell extends about two fifths of the length of the wing. 



Hind Wings somewhat oval ; outer margin sinuated and angulated at the extremity of the outer branch of the 

 median vein. Cell closed by the lower disco-cellular veinlet, which is oblique, curved, and united to the 

 median close to the origin of its outer branch. Upper disco-cellular veinlet arising very near the base of the 

 branch of the subcostal vein. 



Fore Legs of the male short, pectoral, and clothed with long flossy hairs. The tarsi nearly as long as the tibia^, 

 and exarticulate. Fore Legs of the female also short, clothed with close apprcssed scales. Tarsi rather dilated 

 and obliquely truncate at the tip, where several pairs of spines indicate the articulations which are seen on 

 denuding the limb. 



Middle and Hind Legs simple, slender, and rather short. Tibiaj with very short terminal spurs. Tarsi 

 terminating above in a thin semicircular flap, fringed with eight long seta;. Claws small, but very much 

 hooked, and acute at the tips. Paronychia Avith the outer division nearly equal in length to the claw, broadly 

 knife-shaped, finely setose ; inner division smaller and much more slender, obtuse at the tip. Pulvillus very 

 short, broad, and leatliery. 

 Abdomen small and slender, about half the length of the anal margin of the hind wings. 



Larva cylindrical, with two long, spiny, straight, erect horns on the head, and Avith large tubercles at the 



sides of the body, each emitting two or three short setose spines. 

 Pupa perpendicularly suspended, with a curved protuberance in the middle of the thoracic case, and an 



angular projection at the base of the abdomen. 



* In this antl the remainder of the generic descriptions, 1 purpose to adopt tlie nomenclature proposed by the late Mr. Edward Doubleday for the veins of the 

 wings of the Diurnal I^epidoptera, in order that a uniformity may exist in this respect throughout the work. I must, however, request the entomologist to 

 observe that in doing so 1 by no means agree witli his views, especially witli respect to the veins which lie terms disco-cellular aiul discoidal. 1 have, 

 however, employed the term veins instead of nerves for these organs, the researches of modern physiologists having sufficiently proved them to be portions of 

 the system of circulation. The iiervules I indifterently term veiiilets or branches. — J. O. W. 



