VICTORINA. MINETRA. 



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Colaenis Dido (ante, p. 149.). As the description of this larva is omitted in the page just referred to, it may here be stated that it is 

 green, with white and red striae, and has the tail armed with two spines. 



The species of this genus inhabit Tropical America, from Brazil to Mexico. 



VICTORINA. 



1. Vict, Stelenes. 



Papilio Stelenes Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 465. n. 39. 



Clerck, Icon. t. 35. f. 2.; Lvm. Mus. Lud. Reg. p. 218 



n. 37-; Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. v. 2. p. 750. n. 30. 



(P. Sthenelus); Fetiver, Gaz. 20. t. 13. f. 1. (Papilio 



Jamaicensis, &c.); Shane, Jamaica, 2. p. 217. t. 239. 



f. 9, 10.; Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. i. p. 84. n. 263. 



Cramer, Pap. t. 79- f. A.B.; Godart, Enc. M. ix. 378 



n. 95. (Nymphalis St.) ; Lucas, Hist. Nat. Lep. exot. 



pi. 67. f. 2. 

 Metamorpha Sthenele Hilhner, Verz. bek. Schm. n. 382. 

 AphiifEus Stelenes Boisdaval MS. 

 Victorina Steneles Blanchard in Laporte, Hist. Nat. Ins. 



III. p. 447.; E. Doubleday, List. Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 86. ; 



Doubl. IVestw. Sj Hetvitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 33. f. 1. 



Papilio (Eq. Ach.) Lavinia Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. pt. 1. p. 

 22. n. 64. 

 Brazil, Guiana, Surinam, Jamaica. B. M. 



2. VioT. EpAPHus. 



Vanessa Epaphus Latreille in Humboldt et Bonpl. Obs. 



Zool. II. t. 35. f. 3, 4. 

 Vanessa Epaphea Godart, Enc. M. ix. 299- n. 10.; Godt. 



Op. cH. p. 379. n. 96. (Nymphalis Ep.). 

 Amphirene Epaphus Boisduval MS.; E. Doubkday, List 



Lep. Brit. Mus. p. 86. ; Doubl. IVestw. Sf Hewitson, 



Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 33. f. 2. 

 South America, Mexico. B. M. 



3. Vict. Tbayja E. Doubkday, List Lep. Bri. Mus. p. 86. (Amphirene Tr.) 



Siproeta Trayja Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schm, Bd. ii. pi. — . 

 Brazil. B.M. 



Genus XLVIII. MINETRA. 



MiNETRA Boisd. 



Partiienos Ildhn. Verz. bek. Schmett. 



Nymphalis GodK 



Body robust ; abdomen small ; wings elongated. 

 Head broad, hairy, without a frontal tuft. 



Eyes large and naked. 



Labial Palpi compressed, parallel, not forming a conical projecting beak, directed upwards. The terminal joint 

 nearly erect, and elevated to the level of the top of the eyes, thickly clothed with sliort scaly hairs, and with 

 longer loose hairs on the whole of the front surface of the middle joint, and with a tuft of hairs at the 

 extremity of the upper side ; terminal joint small and conical. 



Antennai half the length of the fore wings, nearly straight, terminated by a very long and slender, gradually 

 formed club, slightly grooved on its interior lower surface. 

 Thorax robust, thickly clothed with short woolly hairs, and marked with transverse bars of different colours. 



Fore Wings elongate triangular. Fore margin slightly arched. Apical margin three fourths of the length of the 

 anterior, scarcely emarginate, and slightly scalloped, inner angle rounded, not much more than half the length 

 of the fore margin, very slightly emarginate. Costal vein strong, and extending more than two thirds the 

 length of the wings. Subcostal vein slender ; its first branch arising at the distance of one fourth of the length 

 of the wing from the base ; the second branch arising at two fifths of the length of the wing, beyond which for 

 a short distance the subcostal vein is a little deflexed, it then runs parallel with the costa, until the branching off of 

 the third branch at the distance of two thirds from the base of the wing ; which is immediately followed by the 

 branching off of the fourth branch. The upper disco-cellular vein is almost obsolete, it branches off from the 

 subcostal nearly at half the length of the wing, just beyond the origin of the second branch of the subcostal ; 

 middle disco-cellular vein short, straight, and rather oblique, being directed from the side of the costa towards 

 the base of the wing ; the lower disco-cellular vein much longer, obliquely arched, so that it closes the dis- 

 coidal cell by uniting with the median vein close beyond the origin of its third branch (being preceded on tlie 

 upper surface of the wing by a slender, arched, black line, dividing the second white subcostal patch into two 

 irregular-shaped portions). Median vein strong ; its third branch strongly angulated at about one third of its 

 length from its origin. Subinedian vein considerably curved. 



Hind Wings subquadrangular ovate. Costal margin nearly straight. Outer margin rather deeply scalloped, with 

 the portion between the first and third branches of the median vein somewhat prolonged. Anal angle rounded. 

 Precostal vein distinct from the base, throwing off a forked branch towards the costa immediately before its 

 junction with the costal vein, which is considerably arched. Subcostal vein branched at not more than one 

 eighth of an inch from its base. Upper disco-cellular curved at its base, which is at about the same distance 

 from the base of the branch of the subcostal vein ; outer disco-cellular slightly arched, closing the short and 

 narrow discoidal cell with an acute point, terminating at the base of the third branch of the median vein. 



Fore Legs of the male small, pectoral, very hairy. Tarsus about half the length of the tibia, slender, cylindrical, 



