HYP AXIS. 



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Head rather small, finely hairy in front. 



Eyes prominent, naked. 



Anteiinai short, scarcely half the length of tlie fore wings, slender ; joints indistinct, not annulated, with pale 

 scales ; terminated by a rather long gradually formed club, formed of very short joints, obtuse at the tip, 

 which is curved outwards. 



Labial Palpi elongate, I'ather slender, not compressed, finely hairy, porrectcd considerably further than the 

 length of the front of the head ; the terminal joint horizontally porrected, not elevated above the level of the 

 middle of the eyes ; middle joint with a small conical tuft of hairs in the middle, next the face. 

 Thorax rather small, woolly in front. 



Fore Wings of moderate size, subtriangular. The costal margin moderately arched ; apical angle rather rounded. 

 Apical margin about two thirds of the length of the costal, convex, very slightly scalloped. Inner margin 

 nearly straiglit, rather longer than the apical. Costal vein dilated at the base. Postcostal with its branches 

 arising as in the preceding genera. Upper disco-cellular very short, oblique : middle disco-cellular considerably 

 longer, less oblique, slightly curved : lower disco-cellular much longer, transverse, the lower extremity curved 

 a little outwards ; uniting with the median vein at the origin of its third branch, and closing the discoidal cell 

 at two fifths of the length of the wing. 



Uind Wings subtriangularly ovate. Outer margin scalloped. Anal margin forming only a slight gutter for 

 the reception of the abdomen. Precostal vein curved, slightly furcate at the tip. Costal vein extending to 

 the outer angle of the wing. Postcostal vein branching at a moderate distance from the base, followed quite 

 closely by the upper disco-cellular vein, which forms the slightly curved base of the discoidal vein : lower disco- 

 cellular very slender, strongly arched ; uniting with the median vein at a little distance in advance of the origin 

 of its third branch, and closing the discoidal cell at about one third of the length of the wing. 



Foi-e Legs of the male very small, slender, and delicate, very slightly and finely hirsute. The femur rather 

 longer than the tibia. Tarsus rather more than half the length of the tibia, quite simple, and destitute of 

 articulations and claws, or terminal spines. Fore Legs of the female half as long again as those of the male, 

 slender, scaly, and destitute of hairs ; the proportions of the different parts as in the male. The tarsal portion 

 as thick as the tibia, slightly dilated towards the tip, and armed with three pairs of short spines, indicating 

 the second, third, and fourth articulations. 



Four Hind Legs moderately long and slender ; the spines on the under side of the tibia and tarsus rather stronger 

 and more numerous than in most of the preceding genera of this family. Claws strong, simple, entire. 

 Paronychia very small. 

 Abdomen very slender. 



This is a group of small extent, consisting of a few species, natives of the hottest regions of Asia and Africa, distinguished at once 

 by their style of colouring and markings, which on the under side are still more varied than above, especially on the hind wings, the 

 basal half of which is of a paler fidvous tint, thickly spotted with black. As regards their structural peculiarities I find but little to 

 separate them from Eurytela or Ergolis. 



HYPANIS. 



1. Hvp. Ilithvia. 



Papilio Ilithuia Fubricius, Sp. Ins. t. 2. p. 97-, E7>t. Si/si. 

 III. pt. 1. p. 131. n. 4-0.'3. ; Cramer, Pap. pi. 213. f. 

 A. B. 21 4-. C. 1). ; Godiirt, Eitc. M. ix. p. 327. n. 7. 

 pars ; Doiibl. U'e-stw. S; Ilewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. G8. 

 f 1. 

 Biblia Ilithyia Hiihner, f'erz. heh: Schm. n. 228. 

 Sierra Leone, Congo, East India. B. M. 



2 Hvp. I'omnice. 



Papilio Polinice Cramer, Pap. t. 375. f. G. H. ; Boisduval, 



Sp. gen. Up. i. t. Q. f. 6. 

 Papilio Ilithyia Drury, III. ii. t. 17. f. 1, 2. 



Biblis Ilithyia Gudarl, Enc. M. ix. p. 327. n. 7. pars. 

 Southern Africa, Congo. B. M. 



3. Hyp. A.nvatara. 



Hypanis Anvatara Boisit. Lep. Mining, f^e. pi. 7. f. ."5. 

 Madagascar. 



4. Hvp. ? Phorcys. 



Papilio Phorcys Fabricius, Ent. Si/st. iii. pt. 1. p. SO. 

 n. 248. ; .lonex, Icones, iii. pi. 78. f. 1. ; Donovan, Ins. 

 of Ind. pi. 33. f. 2. ; Godarl, Enc. M. ix. p. 372. 

 '•In Indiis" (Fabricius). 



.iuyust 1. 1851. 



