256 NYMPHALID^E. 



spurs rather long and slender. Tarsi with short slender spines on the under side. Claws long, curved, and 

 acute at the tip, sickle-shaped. Paronychia with the outer lacinia shorter than the claws, slender, pointed, and 

 finely setose ; inner division shorter and pointed. Pulvillus broadly transvei'se-ovate. 

 Abdomen rather long, silky, furnished on the under side near the exti'emity, in the female, with two patches of pale 

 woolly down. 



This is one of the most remarkable species of butterflies with which I am acquainted, not only on account of the peculiarity of its 

 colouring, but also of its structural characters, which remove it from all the preceding genera of the present family. At first sight, 

 indeed, it might be mistaken for some singular species of Euterpe ; it does not, however, belong to the family which contains that 

 genus ; nor can I consider it as belonging to Acrasa, to some of the aberrant species of which it bears a certain resemblance, such as Acr. 

 Ozomene Godart, and A. Hylonomc of E. Doubleday, both represented in Plate XVIII.* of this work. The large club of the antennae, 

 the long very hairy palpi, the very short narrow and open cell of the hind wings, and the well developed legs of the female, are the 

 essential characters of the genus ; whilst the black colour of both surfaces of the wings, marked near the tips of the fore wings with a 

 few longitudinal dashes of pale buff, which on the under side are considerably increased in size, the hind wings also being marked by 

 longitudinal streaks of the same colour extending from the base to the fringe, the patch of bright red colour at the base of all the 

 wings, the red colour of all the legs in the female and of the four hind ones in the male (the fore legs of the latter sex being black), give 

 to the species a very peculiar appearance. In several circumstances, such as the comparatively small size, and dark colours varied with 

 pale markings, it agrees with Eteona ; and it is on this account that I have placed it in this position, rather than postpone its description 

 to the end of the present family, where it would break the chain of affinities extending through Amathusia, Morpho, &c. 



The only specimens I have seen of the species are a pair (male and female) in my own collection, most kindly presented to me, with 

 an extensive series of Mexican insects, by E. P. Coffin, Esq. 



MORPHEIS. 



1. MoHPH. Ehrenbergii Hiibner, Samml. exol. Schtnett. Bd. iii. pi. — ; Douh/. Westw. iS, Hcwitson, Gen. Diurn. l,ep. pi. 43. f. 1. 

 Mexico. 



Genus XLII. EPICALIA. 



Epicalia Boisd. MS. 

 Catonephele and Nkss^a Hiibii. 

 Nymphalis p. God'. 



Body robust ; wings large and strong. 



Head not so broad as the thorax, hairy, with a slight frontal tuft extending between the labial palpi as far as the 

 extremity of the second joint. 



Eyes oval, moderately prominent, naked. 



Labial Palpi projecting beyond the forehead, ascending, but not reaching to the level of the top of the eyes; the 

 third joint directed forwards, clothed with short appressed scales, except on the under side of the basal joint, 

 and the extremity of the upper side of the second joint, where the scales are looser and longer. First joint 

 two fifths of the lengtli of the second, nearly reniform ; second joint not so stout as the first, nearly cylindrical, 

 when denuded of scales a little curved, the base rounded, the apex rather obliquely truncate ; third joint about 

 one third of the length of the second, subconic, the base rounded. 



A7i^e7mw fully three fourtlis of the lengtli of the body, thickening insensibly into a slender elongate club which 

 is compressed and slightly curved, obliquely pointed at the apex, not grooved below. 

 Thorax oval, robust, hairy ; the hairs of the metathorax very long. 



Anterior ^ Wings trigonate, the apex sometimes truncate. Fore margin considerably rounded. Outer margin 

 sometimes nearly straight, sometimes emarginate, two thirds the length of the anterior margin. Inner margin 

 rather longer than the outer, more or less emarginate. Costal vein rather stout, extending two thirds of the 

 lengtli of the fore margin. Subcostal vein slender ; its first and second branches arising before the end of the 

 cell, and at some distance apart ; third branch arising at some distance beyond the cell, and nearly opposite to 

 the junction of the costal with the costa, and terminating at the apex of the wing; its fourth branch arising 

 nearer to the tip of the wing than to the origin of the third branch. Upper disco-cellular vein extremely 

 short, oblique, and arising at a little distance beyond the origin of the second branch of the subcostal vein ; 

 middle disco-cellular vein rather sliort and curved ; lower disco-cellular about twice the length of the middle 

 one, nearly straight, running rather obliquely outwards, and joining the third branch of the median vein at 

 about the same distance from its origin as exists between the second and third branches. Third branch of the 

 median nerve considerably curved. 



Hmd nings trigonate-ovate. Costal margin curved. Outer margin rounded, generally more or less sinuated. 



