208 NYMPHALID.E. 



compressed; liairy on the inside of the extremity of the second joint, with fine scaly hairs on the outside and 

 beneath. Terminal joint small and conical, much more slender than the preceding joint when covered with 

 its scales. 

 Thorax oval, clothed with flossy hairs on the metathorax. 



Fore Wings rather large and wide. Anterior margin slightly rounded. Apical margin about two thirds of the 

 leno'th of tlie anterior, entire, sliglitly rounded. Inner margin nearly straight. Costal vein extending to about 

 two fifths of the length of tlie costa ; first and second branches arising close together, at about one third of the 

 length of wing ; third branch arising about the middle of the wing, and extending nearly to the tip of the 

 costal margin ; fourth branch emitted very near the tip of the wing ; the vein itself is deflexed and slightly 

 angulated just beyond the base of its second branch, where the upper disco-cellular vein is emitted, which is 

 very short and very oblique. The middle and lower disco-cellular veins ai'e in the same line, and in an oblique 

 direction ; the middle one very short, and the lower one more elongated, uniting with the third branch of the 

 median vein at a little distance from its origin, and closing the discoidal cell with an acute point at a little 

 distance before the middle of the wing, the third branch itself being angulated at the point of union. 



Hind Wings broadly subtriangular, furnished with a short obtuse tail directed outwardly ; or rather the space 

 between the extremity of the discoidal vein and the third branch of the median vein is very deeply emarginate. 

 The costal margin rounded towards the base. The outer margin regularly rounded from the outer angle to 

 the extremity of the third branch of the median vein, which extends along the outside of the short tail, from 

 which point to the anal angle the outer margin of the wing is scalloped. Precostal vein short and arched. 

 Costal vein curved, extending to the outer angle of the wing. Subcostal vein branching at about one fourth 

 of its length from the base, and emitting the discoidal vein close to the base of its branch; the upper disco- 

 cellular forming the base of the discoidal vein, and being slightly curved ; the lower disco-cellular obsolete, so 

 that the cell is entirely open. Third branch of the median vein but little curved at the base. 



Fore Legs of the female (the only sex which I have seen) short, pectoral, thickly clothed with scales. Femur 

 nearly straight, with numerous rather scaly hairs on the under side. Tibia nearly as long as the femur, 

 slightly cui'ved, squamose. Tarsus about three fourths of the length of the tibia, and rather narrower than it, 

 subcompressed ; basal joint occupying two thirds of the base, the remaining one third occupied by the 

 articulations which are suboblique, indicated on the under side by short spines seen beyond the scales; 

 terminal joint destitute of claws and pulvilli. 



Four Hind Legs long and strong. Femur very squamose, curved. Tibia as long as the femur, more finely 

 squamose, and furnished with a few irregularly placed, short, acute, and slender spines ; tibial spurs very 

 short. Tarsus equal in length and nearly equal in thickness to the tibia; basal joint rather more than half 

 the entire length, finely squamose, the under side armed with several rows of numerous, small, sharp, and 

 slender spines. Claws rather large, very much hooked, and very acute at the tips. Paronychia with the 

 outer lobe as long as the claw, slightly curved, and obtuse at the tip, finely setose ; inner lobe shorter, curved 

 towards the outer, acute. Pulvillus broad, dilated at the extremity, leathery. 

 Abdomen scarcely longer than the thorax. 



The few species of butterflies of which this hitherto unchavactcrised genus is composed are very rare in collections, and are natives 

 of some of the islands of the Eastern Ocean. They bear considerable resemblance in the form of their wings to Ai-gynnis Egista, as 

 well as to Prothoe Frankii, to which latter they are certainly closely related, diflfering from it, however, in liaving the fourth branch of 

 the subcostal vein of the fore wings arising near the tip of the wing', instead of close to the third as in that genus ; the straiglit but 

 oblique direction, also, of the disco-cellular veins produces a differently formed termination to the discoidal cell, the extremity of which 

 is irregular in Prothoe.' The colouring of the under side of the wings (which affcirds a character to which too little importance has 

 been given) is very remarkable. The fore wings are nearly coloured as above ; but they have, in addition to the suliapical yellow spots, 

 a patch of red near the middle of tlie ajiical margin. The hind wings are dark brown on the disc, glossed with purj)le towards the costa, 

 and witli a band of yellow lunate marks preceding the outer margin, thus differing entirely from the elaborate markings of Prothoe 

 Frankii. Mynes Leucis has the upper surface of the wings blue black, tiie fore ones with two rows of yellowish spots, and the hind 

 ones with a discoidal patch of yellowish ; the under side of the fore wings has a number of white dots, the hind wings are spotted with 

 white at the base, and the disc is marked with three flexuous interrupted strigaj of a whitish green. 



MYNES. 



1. M. Luvds Boisduval, Voy. de I' Astrolabe, Entomologie, p. I29.; Gnerin- 

 Mrnhnlli; Voy. de la Coquille, Zool. Iiix. p. 279. 

 Nymplialis Australis Guerin-MenMlle, Voy. de la Coquille, 

 Iii.':ectes, pi. 14. bis f. 4. 

 Offack, Papua. 



M. GEOFFKOVir. 



Nymphalis Geoffroyii Guerin-MincviUe, Voy. de hi Coquille, 

 Ins. pi. 16. f. 1.; Boisduval, Voy. de I' Astrolabe, Ento- 

 mologie, p. 130. n. 2. 

 OfFack, Papua. B. M. 



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