296 NYMPH ALTD^E. 



Genus LX YII . M E N E R I S . 



Meneris Boisduval MS., E. Dovhleday. 

 TisirnoNE p. HUhner. 

 Nymphalis p. GodK 



Body robust, very hairy ; fore wings with the discoidal cell extending to the middle of the wing ; hind wings 



beautifully ocellated both above and below. 

 Head moderate-sized, very hairy. 



Eyes large, hairy. 



Labial Palpi porrected nearly upright in front of the face, extending above the level of the top of the eyes, very 

 hairy, especially in front ; terminal joint minute, oval, and very distinct, without denuding the palpus ; not 

 extending in front to more than half the length of the head. 



Antemiw about half the length of the fore wings; terminated by a long gradually formed club, bent outwards at 

 the tip, which is attenuated, neither carinated nor channeled beneath. 

 Thorax elongate, ovate, very hairy ; wings large. 



Fore Wings with the anterior margin not strongly arched ; apical angle rounded. Apical margin entire, scarcely 

 emarginate. Inner margin nearly straight. The first branch of the postcostal vein arising at about one third 

 of the length of the wings, followed at a little distance further by tlie second branch ; third branch arising at 

 nearly three fourths, and the fourth branch at about five sixths, of the length of the wing. Upper disco-cellular 

 vein very short, oblique, arising at the distance of half the length of the wing from the base ; middle 

 disco-cellular short, transverse; outer disco cellular considerably longer, transverse, but curved, and uniting 

 with the tliird branch of tlie median vein at about the same distance from its base as exists between the first 

 and second branches. 



Hind Wings oval, ocellated, very hairy on the disc towards the abdomen. Outer margin scalloped. Precostal 

 vein forming a nearly straight sjiur, with the tip bent towards the body. Postcostal vein much arched and 

 slender at its base, running parallel with the costal vein from its base until it readies opposite to the base of 

 the precostal vein, when it takes its ordinary direction, branching at about one fourth of the length of the 

 wing; the upper disco-cellular being thrown off at a little distance from its base, and l)eing arched, and nearly 

 equal in length to the lower disco-cellular, which is also arched, uniting with the third branch of the median 

 vein at a little distance from its base, and closing the discoidal cell in an acute point, extending nearly to half 

 the length of the wing. 



Fore Legs of the male very short and pectoral, densely clothed with rather short hairs, forming a nearly 

 cylindrical brush. The femur and tibia of nearly equal length. Tlie tarsus not above one third of the length 

 of the tibia. 



Four Hind Legs robust. Femur gradually attenuated and slightly curved, finely hairy. Tibia not so long as 

 the femur, armed all over with short spines. Tibial spurs rather elongated. Tarsus ecpial to the tibia in 

 length, strongly spined beneath. 

 Abdomen moderate-sized. 



The type of tliis gi-iuis is a handsome insect, remarkable for several of its cliaracters whicli render its location in its present position 

 very douliti'iil, and appear to indicate a relation with some of the Saryridic, as j)roposed Ijy Iliibner in liis " I'crzeichiiiss.'' These 

 characters consist of the uncarinated chib of the anteunaj, the very hairy i)alpi and eyes, the elongated discoidal cell of the fore wings, and 

 the ocellatiun of the hind ones. We find, it is true, somewhat similar ocellated spots on the under side of the hind wings in Smyrna 

 and Agrias ; but those genera have the scaly palpi of many of the preceding genera. 



The under surface of the wings of M. Tulbaghia is marked in the same manner as the upper. The species is named after one of the 

 Dutch governors of the Cape of Good Hope with whom Llnnoeua corresponded, and who sent the present species to him witli others, 

 which Linnasus states were tlie first specimens of insects from those regions received in Europe. 



MENERIS. 



1. Meneris Tixbaghia. 



P.i|>ilio Tulbaghia Unncsus, Mtis. Ulr. p. 284., Syst. Nat. 



II. p. T?-*). 11. I.OS. ; Fuhriciux, Ent. St/st. ill. pt. 1. 



p. 1(1.'). n. 32'3. ; Juiics, Iconcs, iw. t. 1 ; Cramer, t. 



,S. f. E. F. 

 Nymplialis 'l'\\\h»^\\\n Godiirl, Em: M. ix. ji. 100. ii. 171. 



Oreades marm. 'I'ulbaghia Iliihn. Stwiml. I'.rol. Sriim. Bil. i. 



pi.-. 

 Meneris Tulbagliia Buisilnral MS ; E. Douhlnhiy, IJxt 



of Lr/,. Jlrit. ^rll.1. ]i. 1 0(). ; Doiih/. Il'cstw. A HetKils. 



Gen. IJiiini. Ia'/j. |>1. K). f. .'J. 

 Soiitli Africa. 1?.M. 



