370 SATYRID.E. 



accompanied by four small white spots, and that of the hind wings followed by four very small eyelets, beyond which the wings are irro- 

 rated with pale lilac scales, with a brown border bearing two narrow very much waved black submarginal streaks. 



NEORINA. 

 1. Neob. Hilda. 



Neorina Hilda JTestw. 3IS.; Doiibl. Westu-. S^ Hewits. Gen. Diarn. Lep. pi. 6.5. f. 2. 

 East India, Darjeeling. B. M. 



Genus XIV. TISIPHONE. 



TisiPiiONE Huhner, p. 

 MoRPno p. God'. 



BoDT robust, hairy ; wings lai'ge ; fore ones subtriangular ; bind ones beneath with a series of equabsized oceUi. 

 Head moderate-sized, with a small frontal tuft. 



Eyes prominent, naked. 



Labial Palpi moderate-sized, scaly, compressed ; the fore part destitute of hairs, hind part with short hairs ; 

 elevated obliquely, the tip being a little higher than the top of the eyes, and porrected as far in front as the 

 length of the head ; middle joint much curved at the base ; terminal joint small, oblong, obtuse at the tip. 



Antennce scarcely more than one third of the length of the fore wings, very slender, cjdindrical, with the joints 

 indistinct, terminated by a short and very slender club, finely carinated beneath within. 

 Thorax robust, hairy, ovate. 



Fore Wings large, subtriangular. Fore margin strongly curved ; apical angle slightly rounded. Apical margin 

 two thirds of the anterior, nearly straight, very slightly scalloped ; anal angle rounded. Inner margin straight, 

 as long as the apical one. Tiie three principal veins are slightly dilated at the base. The costal vein extends 

 to the°middle of the costa. The postcostal vein has its first and second branches arising before, and the third 

 considerably beyond, the extremity of the discoidal cell ; the fourth branch arises at about five sixths of the 

 length of the wing ; and the terminal part of the vein extends to the tip of the wing. Upper disco-cellular 

 vein very short, oblique, arising at about half the length of the wing : middle disco-cellular short, more 

 transverse : lower disco-cellular much longer and more oblique, terminating the discoidal cell in nearly a right 

 ano-le with the basal portion of the tliird branch of the median vein, with which it is united at the same 

 distance from its origin as exists between the first and second branches of the median vein. 



Hind Wings broadly ovate, rounded at the outer and anal angles. Outer margin scalloped. Precostal vein 

 arising exactly opposite to the origin of the postcostal. Upper disco-cellular vein short, about equal in length 

 to the space between its origin and that of the first postcostal branch, slightly curved : lower disco-cellular 

 much longer, straight, closing the discoidal cell in rather an acute point before the middle of the wing, by 

 uniting with the third branch of the median vein at a little distance beyond its origin. 



Fore Legs of the male small, pectoral, but slightly feathered. Tarsus equal to the tibia in length and thickness, 

 without ungues or articulations. 



Four Hind Legs rather short, scaly. Tibia finely spined on the under side beneath ; spurs short, slender. 

 Tarsi with several rows of short spines beneath at the sides. Ungues small, very much curved, furnished 

 beneath near the tip with a small distinct tooth. Paronychia nfinute. 

 Abdomen short, ovate. 



The scaly palpi of the type of this genus probal)ly induced M. Godart to introduce it amongst the Morpliid;\;. The slendeniess of 

 the antenna, the ocellated under surface of the wings, the somewhat swollen base of the veins of the fore wings, and especially the 

 bifid structure of the ungues, evidently, however, justify Hiibner in placing it amongst the Satyridse. He has, nevertheless, united in 

 the same genus several other insects which have but little affinity with the fine Mexican insect re])resented in our PI. LXIII. f. 2. 



The insects which he has indicated or figured as congeneric are, the Australian S. Abeona (Zelinde Hb.) aud Acanthe, the European 

 Pasipliae (Salome Fab., closely allied to Hyperanthus), the South African Meneris Tulbaghia, and the Indian Cordace. The arrange- 

 ment of the veins of the wings in M. Tulbagliia is very similar to that of Tisiphone; and the palpi in the former insect ai-e very hairy, 

 as well as the eyes. These insects, consequently, seem to form a point of connexion between the Nymphaliche and Satyrida;. 



TISIPHONE. 



' Tis. Hercyna. 



(Oreas marmorata) Tisiphone Hercyna Hiibner, Samrnl. exot. Schni. Band i. pi. — . ; 



Doubl. IVeslu: Sj Ilewits. Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 63. f. 2. 

 Rlorpho Anosia Godart, Ene. M. ix. p. 452. n. 36. 

 Brazil, Peru, Mexico. B. M. 



