258 



NYMPHALID/E. 



Papilio Numilius Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. i. 53. n. 6l4.; 

 Donovan, Naturalist's Repos. ii. pi. 55. f. 2.; Godart, 

 Enc. M. jx. 409- "• 198. 

 Brazil. B. M. 



6. Ep. Ancxa. 



^Papilio AncEEa Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 781. n. 184.; 

 Clerck, Icon. t. 31. f. 2.; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. m. i. 

 t. 154. n. 474. 

 Papilio Obrinus Naturf. vi. 128. t. 6. f. 1, 2.; Suleer, Hist. 

 Ins. t. 16. f. 1, 2.; Cramer, Pap. t. 338. C. D.; Dono- 

 van, Ins. India, pi. 37. f. 3. 

 Nessaea Ancsea Hiibn. Verz. bek. Schmett. no. 360.; Godart, 

 Enc. M. IX. p. 409. 

 f Papilio obrinus Linn. Mus. Reg. Lud. 255., Syst. Nat. u. 



p. 766. n. 113.; Clerck, Icon. t. 31. f. 3. ; Fabricius, 



Ent. Syst. III. i. 154. n. 475.; Cramer, Pap. pi. 49. f. 



E. F.; Stoll, Suppl. Cram. pi. 6. f. 5. (larva). 



Brazil. B. M. 



Var. Ep. Aglaura E. Doubleday, MS.; Doubt. Westw. ^• 



Hewitson, Gen. D. Lep. pi. 29. f. 3. 



Mexico. B. M. 



7. .' Ep. Lygistus Boisduval MS. 

 Bogota. 



Ep. Cerambus Boisduval MS. 

 Mexico. 



Ep. Cokinnete Boisduval MS. 

 Peru. 



8..? 



9.? 



Genus XLIII CALLITHEA. 



Callithea Boisd. 



Vanessa and Argynnis GodK 



AsTEROPE p. nuhn. 



Body robust ; wings large and rounded. 



Head moderate-sized, larger in the males than in the females, with a frontal tuft before the antenna;. 



Eyes prominent and naked. 



Labial Falpi porrect, directed upwards, but not reaching the level of the top of the eyes ; subcyiindrical, covered 

 with scales, the upper side of the second joint being clothed with short distinct hairs ; terminal joint small 

 and slender. 



Antemue short, slender, not more than two fifths the length of the fore wings, terminated by a short, very large, 

 compressed, and somewhat spoon-shaped club, composed of about ten joints, slightly keeled. 

 Thorax robust ; the collar and metathorax clothed with short woolly hair. 



Fore Winqs large, ovate-trigonate. Fore margin much arched. Apical margin about two thirds of the length 

 of the fore margin, much rounded. Inner margin rather longer than the apical, subemarginate, or sometimes 

 very sli2;htly rounded. Costal vein extending to the middle of the costa. Subcostal vein with the first branch 

 arising at about one third of the length of the wing from the base ; second branch arising at a very little 

 distance beyond the first ; third branch arising at about three fourths of the distance from the base of the 

 wing, and extending to the tip ; fourth branch arising half way between the third and the tip. First disco- 

 cellular very short, almost indistinct ; branching off from the subcostal vein just beyond the origin of its second 

 branch, at the distance of two fifths from the base of the wing ; middle disco-cellular short, curved ; lower 

 disco-cellular very slender, oblique, and slightly curved, joining the median vein close to the base of its tliird 

 branch, thus closing the cell at a little distance before the middle of the wing. Third branch of the median 

 vein gradually curved for about one-third of its basal length. 



Hind Wings subtriangular, rounded along the costal margin. Outer margin very much rounded and entire. 

 Anal margin deeply grooved. Precostal vein much curved outwardly ; as is also the costal, esjiecially along its 

 basal half. Subcostal vein branching at the distance of about one third from the base of the wing. Discoidal 

 vein arising very near the fork of the subcostal, the upper disco-cellular forming its base ; the lower disco- 

 cellular curved, very slender, and arising at about the same distance from the base of the upper disco-cellular 

 as between the latter and the fork of the subcostal, uniting with the median vein close to the origin of its third 

 branch, the pointed extremity of the cell extending to the middle of the wing. 



Fore Legs of the male small, pectoral, denscl}' clothed with slender, white, silky hairs. Femora slender. Tibia 

 and tarsus rather bi'oader, somewhat flattened, and of nearly equal length. Fore Legs of tlie female rather 

 .shorter than those of the male, scaly. The femur .slightly clothed beneath with hairs. Tibia shorter and 

 rather thicker than the femur at its extremity. Tarsus rather .shorter than the tibia, its extremity distinctly 

 articulated when denuded of scales. The tip of the first joint simple ; the second, third, and fourth, with two 

 short spines at the extremity of each, on the under side ; terminal joint small, conical, and destitute of claws. 



Four IJind Legs rather short and stout. Femora and tibia; not spined, and rather sligiitly clothed with scales. 

 Tarsi with several rows of very short spines on the under side. Claws very much ciirved, sickle-shaped. 

 Paronychia with the outer lacinia rather slender, and obtuse at the tip ; inner lacinia somewhat conical, finely 

 setose. 

 Abdomen rather large. 



I^.tRVA and Pi.TA unknown. 



