ZEMEROS. NEMEOBIUS. 4jy 



Eyes small, naked. 



Labial Palpi very minute, almost horizontal, not visible from above ; t!ie tip not reaching more than the level of 

 one fourth of the height of the eyes, rather thickly clothed beneath with hairs ; tlie terminal joint not bein^' 

 visible, except on denuding the palpus. ■' ° 



^?2ferina' short and very slender, not more than half the length of the fore Avings ; terminated bv a short but 

 d.stmct club, rather slender, obtuse at tlie tip; annulatk^ns very short, and finely ringed witlXe at 



Thorax rather large, oval ; tippets truncate in front, finely hairy. 



^ mor^Tfut'Tn' T'^P V'^"^'a''''- , ^°''' ™'- °^" f^Y^^ '''''''''^ '' "P^^'^l ^^"g^^ ^^'g'^tly acute in the males, 

 Te Lt Tnn "• . ^^"^ '''^'T "-^l^Sularly scalloped, being more convex in the females than in 



the males. Inner margin not so long as the apical. Veins arranged as in Eurybia, except that the lower 

 disco-cellular vein is united to the third branch of the median vein q^iite close to its ori^^in 



Ntnd Wings .vreguUvly oval. The apical margin irregularly scalloped, and somewhat truncate from the 

 ZiZ^lT *'^^^'^*^r'ty of the_ third branch of the median vein. Costal vein not extending beyond he 

 middle of the costa. Postcostal vein arising near the body, but curved at its base, being deflexed opposite the 

 precostal vein ; branching at a considerable distance from the base, the branch extendfng to the up, er end of 

 the first or outer scallop Upper disco-cellular vein short, arising a little nearer the bodf than tlii branch of 

 the postcostal, oblique : lower disco-cellular oblique, slightly longer than the upper, uniting with the median 

 vein exactly opposite the base of the third branch, which extends to the strongest of the an° les formed bv he 



abdomen^ '''''''^'"" "''''"'" °*' '''*" '^'"^' ^°'™'"° "" ^"'''^ '^'°''* g"""^"" ^°'' *^^ reception of the 



Fore Legs of the male very small, and densely clothed with hairs. Tarsus simple. Fore Legs of the female more 

 than twice the length ot those of the male, slender, but well clothed with scales, so as to conceal the joints of 

 slendeTclaws'' " ' '' ^ "" '" ^"""^'^^ *"* ^^'^ *''''''' ''''^ '^ terminated by two small, distinct, very 



Four Hind Legs slender, and rather short, clothed with fine scales. Femur of the middle pair considerably 

 elongated, being as long as the tibia and half the tarsus. Tarsus of the hind pair rather longer tlian the tibia 

 iibial spurs very slender, short, and acute. Tarsi armed beneath with very fine, short, acute setaj 

 Abdomen small, slender, scarcely more than half the length of the hind wings. 



The type of this genus is one of the fev, Erycinid* natives of the East, being found in various parts of the East Indies, Java and 

 China. It IS distinguished from the two preceding genera by the irreguhu- margin of the wings, the subtriangular form of the anterior 

 pair, the short antennae e.'ctremely minute palpi, and the peculiarities in the arrangement of the veining of the win-s, as indicated in 



Z llltlJar"-'" '^'^'""f rV ^'^? ""'"■ "''-^ °^ "" *yP^ '^ ^""''="- ^" '^^ '"^^^'"S^ *° '^' upper rthe only difel-ence Eg thlt 

 tne ground colour is somewhat of a paler orange tint. a " "•' 



ZEMEROS. 



1. Zem. Flegyas. 



Papilio Flegyas Cramer, Pap. pi. 280. f. E. F. ; E. DouU. 

 List Lep. Brit. Mas. pt. 2. p. I. (Zemeros Fl.); 

 Boisduval, Spec. gen. Lep. t. 21. f. 5. ; Doubl. Wcstw. 6^ 

 Hewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 6g. f. 5. 



China, Java, East India. B. M. 



Papilio Allica Fabriciiis, Ent. Syst. iir. pt. I. p. 244'. n. 

 761. ; Godurt, Enc. M. ix. p. 567. n. 13. ; Hilhner, 

 Vers. belt. Schm. p. 18. n. 105. (Hamanumida All.); 

 Donovan, Ins. of India, pi. 37. f. 2. 



Genus IV. NKMEOHIUS. 



Nemeobius Stephens, Boisduval, E. Doubleday. 

 Hamearis p. lliibner. 

 Hamearis Curtis. 

 Argynnis p. God'. 



Body small : wings of moderate size; anterior elongate, triangular; colouring brownish black, with orange-coloured 



markings ; the hind wings beneath with two rows of white spots. 

 Head small ; clothed, especially in front, with long fine hairs. 



Eyes hairy. 



Antennce slender, short, not more than half the length of the fore wings, composed of about forty joints wliich 



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