MENERIS. SMYRNA 



297 



Genus LXVIII. SMYRNA. 



Smyrna llUhn. Saiuml. exot. Sch. 

 Agrias Sect. X. Boisd. MS. 

 Nymphalis Fabricius. 



Body robust, clothed with long woolly hairs ; wings large, entire, or but slightly scalloped ; the hind ones ocellated 



beneath. 

 Head moderately large, with a conical tuft in front. 



Eyes large, prominent, naked. 



Labial Palpi porrcctcd obliquely, compressed, reaching to the level of the top of the eyes, scaly. The middle 

 joint hairy above ; terminal joint subhorizontal, terminated in a point, reaching to about the length of the head. 



Antenna' about five eighths of the length of the fore wings, straight ; terminated by an elongated, rather slender 

 club, occupying one fifth of the length of the antennaa, obliquely truncate at the tip, with two very delicate 

 longitudinal carina? on the under side. 

 Thorax elongate-ovate, clothed, especially behind, with long woolly hairs. 



Fore Wings large, subtriangnlar. Fore margin arched; apical angle rather obtuse. Apical margin nearly 

 straight, very slightly scalloped, two thirds pf the length of the anterior; hinder angle rounded. Inner margin 

 nearly straight, rather longer than the apical. Veins moderately strong. Costal vein not reachino- to the 

 middle of the costa. First and second branches of the ^Jostcostal vein arising before the anterior extremity of 

 the discoidal cell ; third branch arising about the distance of a line beyond its anterior extremity, and running 

 to the tip of the wing ; fourth branch arising at about four fifths of the length of the wing, and extendino- to 

 the apical margin below the apex. Upper disco-cellular vein very short, arising at one third of the leno-th of 

 the wing ; middle disco-cellular short, transverse, arched ; lower disco-cellular three times as long as the 

 middle one, very oblique, united to tlie third branch of the median vein close to its base (this third branch 

 being much arched along its basal one third portion), closing the discoidal cell in an acute point about two 

 fifths of the length of the wing from its base. 



Hind Wings ovate. Costal margin much arched. Apical margin rounded, scalloped ; the lobe at the extremity 

 of the first branch of the median vein being occasionally enlarged. Inner portion of the wing, includino- the 

 anal groove, thiclvly clothed with tine hairs. Under surface of the wings thickly reticulated with black 

 markings and with four elegant ocelli. Precostal vein very much arched ; the tip directed outwardly. Costal 

 vein also much arched. Postcostal vein branched near its base. Discoidal cell not closed. 



Fore Legs of the male short and pectoral, but very broadly clothed with fine silky hairs. The tibia as Ion"- 

 as the femur; and the tarsus depressed, and about two thirds of tlie length of the tibia, pointed at the tip, and 

 destitute of claws. Fore Legs of the female rather shorter than those of the male, scaly, and sparingly clothed 

 with hairs. Femur and tibia of equal length. Tarsus two thirds of the length of the tibia, compressed ; the 

 tip obliquely truncated, and armed witli several pairs of small spines, indicating the articulations. 



Four Hind Legs robust. Middle pair longer than the posterior. Middle tibia- with a space near tlie l)ase beneath 

 clothed with plush-like hairs. Inner side of tiie tibiic and tarsi armed with very numerous short spines, 

 arranged in longitudinal series. Tibial spurs very short. Claws very muih arclied and acute. Outer division 

 of the paronychia nearly e<[ual in size and similar in form to the claws. 

 AiiDOMEN small, conical in the males, ovate in the females. 



No idea can be formed from the fijrure of the u])]kt surface of the typical species of this genus, veprcsenled in our XLVIth jilate, of 

 tlie exquisite beauty of the under surface of tlie wings; tlie fore ones are imieed nearly similar on both sides, except that the basal 

 portion is paler, and the apex is grey with white spots and iilackish clouds; but the hind wings have a greyish ground colour, and more 

 lh;ui half of the basal portion is thickly covered with a multitude of blackish undulated lines and spots, beyond which are four 

 beautiful eye-like spots, the two middle ones smaller than the others. In this respect the genus resembles Meneris and Agrias, but 

 Agrias has the veins of the fore wings arranged in the same curious manner as in Prepona. 



The species are natives of the New World from Brazil to Mexico, and are of a moderate size. 



S.MYRNA. 



1. Smyrna Bi,(ijiFir.niA. 



Papilio Blomfililia Fabricius, Sp. l».i. ii. p. S l. n. 370. 



(17S1), Eiit. Si/xf. III. pt. 1. p. 10(7. n. .S2(i. 

 Smyrna liiomfililia Jlilhitn; Samnil. Exot. Svlivictt. Band 



ii. jil. — . 



Papilio Proserpina Fahr. Ent. Sysl. iii. pt. 1. p. 228. n. 



7l;j. ; Juiicn, Iimiex. v. t. 2+. f. 1. ; Doiionin, Dnnciiif/.i 



ill Bill/. Ildjip, O.tforil. 

 Pai)ilio Bella Fithririiif., Fiil. Si/sf. m. p|. ]. p. 7(). „. a*.').; 



Gwlarl, Eiir. 31. ix. p. :n.i n. 85. f Nviii|.liaii' Bella); 



