METHONE. HELICOPIS. 



423 



Hind Wings large, ovate. Costal margin arched. Hinder margin very deeply scalloped; the veins terminating 

 in very prominent teeth between the scallops. Anal margin forming a deep gi'oove for the reception of the 

 abdomen. Costal vein extending to about two thirds of the costa. Precostal short, erect, its tij) directed 

 towards the body. Postcostal vein branching at a moderate distance from its base. The upper disco-cellular 

 short, oblique, arising at about the same distance from the base of the branch of the postcostal, as its own 

 length : lower disco-cellular much longer, less oblique, uniting with the third branch of the median vein at 

 a short distance from its origin, closing the discoidal cell at about half the length of the wing. The third 

 branch of the median vein extends into the most prominent of the tails of the outer margin of the wing. 



Fore Legs of the male very short, but thick, and densely clothed with fine hairs. The tarsal portion about two 

 thirds of the lengtli of the tibia. Fore Legs of the female also short, thick, very scaly. The tarsal portion as 

 long as the tibia. The intermediate tarsal joints armed beneath with moderately strong spines. 



Four Hind Legs comparatively short and thick. Middle fenmr elongated, thickly clothed with scaly hairs. 

 Tibial spurs apparently obsolete. Tarsal portion thickly squamose, the scales at the extremity nearly 

 concealing the claws and their appendages. 

 Abdomen small. 



The type of this genus is a Brazilian insect, agreeing with the preceding genera in having four branches to the postcostal vein of the 

 fore wings, but distinguished by the branch of the postcostal vein of the hind wings arising neai'er the base of the wing than the upper 

 disco-cellular vein, resembling in this respect Alesa. The four branches of the postcostal vein will at once distinguish this genus from 

 the following, with which it agrees in the denticulated jiind ninrgin of the hind wings. The short thick legs are also another distin- 

 guishing character of the genus. Our Plate LXIX. fig. 1. represents tlie male. The female is larger, with a much broader and paler 

 oblique bar in the fore wings ; and the hind wings have a row of pale yellowish spots in the broad black border. 



METHONE. 



1. Meth. Cicima. 



Papilio Cicilia Cmmn; Pa]), pi. 159. f- D- E., 376. f. G. H. 

 Methone Ca?cilia E. Doubletlay, List Lip. Brit. l\Ius. pt. 



2. p. 4. ; Doubl. Westw. S; Ilewits. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 6g. 



f. I. 

 Erycina Amyntor Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 827. n. 10 — 11. 



( Kryciiia C. ) ; E. Douhleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. 



2. p. 4. (Methone C). 

 (Female) Papilio Dorine Cramer, Pap. iv. p. 249- pi. 376. 



f. G. H., and Syst. Sijn. p. 1 1. 



Helicopis Cecilia Hiibner, Vers, beh: Schm. p. 22. n. l64. 

 Para, Surinam (Cramer), India (Fab.), Bengal (Oamer). 



B. M. 



2. Meth. ."' Plautus. 



Ilesperia ? Plautus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 

 n. 113.; Jones, Icon. vi. t. 44. f. 1. ; 

 IX. p. 828. n. 13—14. (Erycma PI.). 

 " In Indiis " (Fabricius). 



III. pt. 1. p. 291. 

 Godart, Enc. M. 



Genus VII. HELICOPIS. 



Helicopis Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. 

 Hexuroptekis Hiibner. 

 EuYCiNA p. God'. 



P>ODY slender, elongated : wings large ; the hind ones produced into a series of long slender tails, and ornamented 



beneath with silvery spots and lines. 

 Head small, elongated behind the eyes, with an erect tuft of hairs upon the neck. Face clothed with very short 

 hairs. 

 Eyes small, finely hairy. 



Labial L\dpi very short, compressed, curved to the tip, not arising higher than one fifth of the height of the eye. 

 Basal and second joints bi'oad, of nearly equal length ; the second rather attenuated at the tip ; the terminal 

 joint about one tliird of the length of the middle joint, ovate, pointed at the tip. 

 Antenna; not half the length of the fore wings, slender. The joints at the base and in the club very short ; those 

 in the middle of the antennte greatly elongated, annulated at the base with white, and with the extremity of 

 each slightly clavate, and occasionally clothed with fine scales. The club of the antenna; is elongate, gradually 

 formed, and terminating in a curved acute point, being composed of very short joints, which give it somewhat 

 of a serrated appearance. 



September 1. 1851. 5 S 



