2G0 NYMPHALID^.. 



Fore Legs of the male small and pectoral, slightly hairy, with the tarsus exarticulate, and not above half the 

 len<?tii of the tibia. Fore Legs of the female closely clothed with small scales. Femur and tibia rather longer 

 than those of the male. Tarsus as long as tlie tibia, rather dilated and compressed at the extremity, which is 

 articulated, the articulations indicated before the limb is denuded by very small spines at the tips of the joints 

 beneath ; terminal joint very small, and destitute of claws. 



Four Hind Legs moderately long, scaly. Tarsi as long as the tibia?, clothed with scaly hairs. Claws small, much 

 curved; not extending beyond the upper flap of the terminal joint of the tarsus, which is fringed with long 

 hairs. Paronychia small, with unequal-sized, obtuse, finely setose laciniae. 



Traxsformatioxs unkno-mi. 



The handsome insect forming the type of the present genus is somewhat larger than those immediately preceding, and although pos- 

 sessing a pale blue oblique bar extending across the fore wings from the middle of the fore margin to the anal angle, as in Epicalia Ancasa 

 (with which it also agrees in the length and slenderness of the antennaj), yet the ocellated spots on the hind wings give it more the 

 appearance of an Agrias or Smyrna. A fine variety of the male having the ocelli strongly marked is represented in our Plate LI. The 

 female differs in being paler brown, with the eyes still more strongly defined, and the fascia of the fore wings white, powdered at the 

 sides with pale blue atoms. The head of this sex is evidently smaller than that of the male. The under surface of the wings is still 

 paler, and similarly but more strongly marked, having several small additional indistinct eyes near the tip of the fore wings, and the 

 fascia of the wings in the male suffused with brown. 



AMNOSIA. 



1. Amnosia decora Bohduval MS. 



Doubl. Wesiw. S^ Hewitson Gen. D. L. pi. 51. f. 3. (male). 

 Java, Serampore. B.M. 



Genus XLV. CYRESTIS. 



Cyrestis Boisd. 



Marpesia p. Hiibn. 



Paphia p. Horsjield. 



Ajiathusia p. Zmken-Sommer, Kollar. 



Body small, slender ; wings large and delicate. 



Head small, broader than the neck, but narrower than the middle of the thorax, strongly tufted in front. 



Eyes very prominent, naked. 



Antennce not lialf the length of the fore wings, very slender, and terminated by an elongated, very gradually 

 formed, slender cIuIj. 



Labial Palpi long, slender, directed upwards to about two thirds of the height of the eyes, and porrected to 

 nearly twice the length of the head; somewhat cylindrical, scaly. Basal joint clothed beneath with rather short 

 woolly hairs ; second joint also similarly clothed on the upper side, the joints not being apparent unless denuded 

 of scales ; terminal joint nearly as long as the second, slender. 

 Thorax squamose, slightly hirsute behind. Collar narrow and distinct. 



Fore Wings large, subtriangular. Fore margin slightly rounded. Apical margin somewhat truncate or slightly 

 rounded, five sixths of the length of the fore margin, sinuated along its greater part ; apical angle rather acute ; 

 anal angle emarginate and somewhat lobed. Inner margin not above two thirds of the length of the anterior, 

 rather rounded outwardly towards the base, but emarginate beyond the middle. Costal vein slender, extending 

 to the middle of the fore margin. Subcostal vein rather thicker ; its first branch arising at the distance of one 

 third of the length of the wing from its base ; second branch arising at a very httle distance beyond the first, 

 close to the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell ; third branch arising at about two thirds of the length of 

 the wing ; fourth branch arising half way between the base of the third and the tip of the wing, to which it 

 extends, the terminal division of the vein itself being rather deflexed. Upper disco-cellular very short, and 

 longitudinal, forming the base of the upper discoidal vein ; middle and lower disco-cellular veins forming a straight 

 transverse termination to the discoidal cell, which forms a triangle occupying about one third of the length of 

 the wing; the lower disco-cellular being al^out three times the length of the middle one, very slender, "some- 

 times almost or entirely obsolete, and united with the median vein exactly at the base of its third branch, 

 which is regularly arched. 



Hind Wings somewhat hexagonal, elongated. The costal margin nearly straight for more than half its length, 

 when it is emarginate to the outer angle. Outer margin sinuated from the outer angle to the extremity of the 

 third branch of the median vein, where the wing is produced into a short, narrow, curved, and obtuse tail ; 



