418 



erycinid.t:. 



Head short, transverse, broader in the males than in the females, clothed with very short hairs. 



Eyes rather large, naked. , , . . , , , , . 



Labial Palpi small, very compressed, applied close to the face : basal jomt much curved ; second nearly erect, 

 "scaly • third very slender, nearly naked, two thirds of the length of the second jomt m the females, in which 

 the tip of the palpi is elevated nearly to the level of the top of the eyes, but in the males it is shorter, and 

 scarcely reaches more than half their height. . 



Antennce Very slender, more than two thirds of the length of the fore wings in the males, rather shorter m tlie 

 females ; terminating in a very slender, short, compressed club, with the tip acute and incurved ; the extremity 

 white in the males, the basal portion not annulated. 

 Thorax short, oval, finelv hairy. . . , • / • n • *i 



Fore Wings elongate. Costal margin slightly arched ; apex obtuse. Apical margm convex (especially m the 

 females). Veins arranged as in Eurybia. . 



Hind Winqs small, subtriangularly ovate. Outer margin entire, nearly straight in the males, more convex m the 

 females • anal ano-le rounded. Veins arranged as in Eurybia, except that the upper disco-cellular vein arises 

 at some little distance beyond the origin 'of the branch of the postcostal ; and the lower disco-cellular is 

 conseqnently more transverse, beimr united to the third branch of the median vein at about the same distance 

 from its base as exists between the base of the branch of the postcostal and the origin of the upper disco- 

 cellular. „ , „ , -Till T_ • 



Fore Leq^ of the male small, slender, and densely hairy. Fore Legs of the female considerably longer, being 



about two thirds of the length of the middle legs, very slender, scaly. The tarsus about one third longer than 



the tibia, articulated as in the other legs. . , , , r -n i 



Four Hind Legs rather short, slender. Tibia of the middle legs about equal in length to the femur, lemur and 



tibia shorter in the hind legs, but the tarsus is longer. -,..,. .3 ^i, ^• 



Abdomen elongate, extending a little beyond the hind wings in the male, attenuated and shghtly tulted at the tip. 



Like the preceding genus, the present one is distinguished from the great body of the Erycmid^e by having four free branches to the 

 postcostal vein of the fore wings! from Eurybia it is distinguished, however, not only by the style of its markings, but by he greater 

 elonoation of tlie terminal joint of the palpi, the form of the wings, and the insertion of the upper disco-cellular vein of the hind wmg8 

 at solne little distance beyond the |)ranching off of the branch of the postcostal vein. t i , , • i ^i. 



The exquisite species represented in Plate LXX. fig. 8. has the fore wings rather less elongated, and the hind ones rather more 

 triano-ular, than in the second species, Alesa Priolas of Godart, the male of which ,s of a velvety black colour on the upper side, with 

 the apical portion of the wings dull greenisli, with black veins and stripes ; the hind portion of the apical margin and the extremity ot 

 the hind winss, being of an intense purple tint in certain lights. The female, which appears to me to be certainly the Papil.o Ames.s 

 of Cramer, is^of a dSu buff colour, with dark brown spots and bars on the basal halt ot the wmgs, the apical hat being streaked with 

 black in the fore wings, and bearing a submarginal row of large black oval spots on the hind wmgs ; the under side is smiUarly marked, 

 but the ground colour is paler buff, and the male is very like the female on the under side. 



ALESA. 



1. Ai.. Trkma. 



Erycina Prema Godarl, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 5&Q. n. 27. ; 

 E. Donhhrlay, Lht Lep. Brit. Miis. pt. 2. p. 1. (Alesa 

 Pr.) ; DuiiU. ll'c.itu: S; Hnritx. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 70. 

 f. 8. 

 Brazil. B- M- 



2. Al.. SMABACiDIFERA IVcStW. IIOV. Sp.* 



Columbia. 



v.. M. 



3. Al.. Pnioi.AS. 



Erycina Priolas Gndort, Enc. M. ix. p. .'jfip. n. 26. ; E. 



Doubl. List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 2. p. 1. 

 (Female) Papilio Amesis Cramer, Pap. pi. 104. f. F. ; 

 Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. .")S+. n. !)8. (Erycina Am.) 

 Guiana, Brazil. 15. M. 



Body small, slender : wings 



Genus III. ZEMEROS. 



Zemeros Jjoisdjival, E. Doubleday. 

 Hamanumida p. HUbner. 

 Erycina p. God'. 



lar^e, irre"-ular alon"- the margins; disc marked with a number of small white dots. 



Head small, very finely hairy ; front with a small truncated tuft. 



* Al. alls supra palli.le fuscis, aniicis supra strigis duabus, posticis tribus, anticis punctis quatuor basalibiis, posticis sex subapicalibus nigris in me,lio 

 smaragdinis ; subtus coloribus omnino pallidioribus et obscurioribus. Expans. alar, antic, unc. 2. Au Al. Prerase foem. i 



