426 ERYCINID/E. 



Genus IX. SYRMATIA. 



Syrmatia ITUhner, E. Doubleday. 

 LiMNAS IlUhner olim. 

 Erycina p. God'. 



Body very small : wings large ; each of the hind wings produced into a very long tail. 

 Head small, with a slight frontal tuft. 



Eyes moderate-sized, naked. 



Labial Palpi very small, compressed, not extending beyond the front of the eyes, clothed beneath with fine 

 hairs. 



Antennw about half the length of the fore wings, very slender at the base, not annulated with white scales; 

 terminated by a rather elongated thick club, gradually formed, and obtuse at the tip. 

 Thorax small, short, ovate. 



Fore Winijs large, subtriangular. Costal margin nearly straight for a considerable part of its length, strongly 

 arched at the tip ; apical angle obtuse. Apical margin very convex, entire, more than three fourths of the 

 length of the costa. Inner margin not moi'e than two thirds of the length of the apical margin. Post costal 

 vein with three branches : the first arising before the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell ; the second at 

 some distance beyond its extremity ; and the third at about the same distance beyond the second as exists 

 between tiie latter and the extremity of the cell. Upper disco-cellular vein obsolete : middle disco-cellular 

 short, transverse, arising at a little distance beyond the first branch of the postcostal vein, and simultaneously 

 with the upper discoidal vein, which extends in the same direction as the base of the jjostcostal, of which it 

 might be regarded as the continuation : lower disco-cellular vein at least twice as long as the upper one, 

 transverse, and slightly arched, closing the discoidal cell by its junction with the third branch of the median 

 vein at a distance from its base equal to half the space between tlie first and second brandies. 



Hi7id Wings narrow. The costal margin nearly straight i'or two thirds of its length, rounded at the outer angle. 

 The outer margin slightly angulated at the extremity of the postcostal vein ; it is then emarginated at the 

 extremity of the discoidal vein, between which and the anal angle the wing is produced into a broad and long 

 tail having a lobe on the inside, into which the first and second brandies of the median vein extend, far 

 beyond the extremity of the discoidal vein ; the third branch of the median vein extending to the extremity 

 of the attenuated apical part of the tail. Costal vein extending to about two thirds of the costa. Precostal 

 short, curved outwards. Postcostal branching at a considerable distance from the base. Upper disco-cellular 

 oblique, arising a little nearer the body than the branch of the 2:)ostcostal vein : lower disco-cellular vein equal 

 in length to the upper one, similarly oblique, very slender, closing the discoidal cell close to the origin of the 

 third branch of the median vein, all the branches of wliich run very close together into tlie tail, as above 

 mentioned. 



Fore Legs of the male very small, slender, and very hirsute, scarcely larger than the palpi. Fore Legs of the 

 female nearly three times as long as those of the male, scaly, articulated as in the hind legs. 



Four Hind Legs short, scaly, rather robust. Tibial spurs not visible beyond the scales at the end of the 

 tibia. 

 Abdomen small. 



In aiMition to tlie t'oriii of the hind win;;;.?, the type of this genus is distinguished by tlie strong club to the antennas, tlie insertion of 

 the second iirnnch of the postcostal vein of the fore wings at a considerable distance beyond the anterior extremity of the discoidal cell, 

 and the shortness of the discoidal cell of the hind wings ; the rather oblique upper disco cellular vein arising nearer the body than the 

 branch of the postcostal vein, and the lower disco cellular uniting with the median vein quite close to the origin of the third branch of 

 the nie<lian vein. 



Our Plate LXX. fig. .3. re]iresents a female : the male is smaller, and is distinguished by wanting the bar near the base of the wings. 

 The under side of the wings resembles the iqiper. 



SYRMATIA. 



1. SvnM. DoBII.AS. 



I'apilio lliirilas Cramer, Pap. pi. 48. f. C. ; E. Dmihlcdny, 

 Lint Le/i. Brit. Miis. pt. 2. p. 4. (Syrmatia D.) ; Doubl. 

 Wextw. ff HewHu. Gen. D. Lep. pi. 70. f. 3. (Syrmatia 

 D.) 



Kryciiia Dorilas Clotliirf, F.iie. M. ix. p. 5C>1. 



Erycina (Dorilas) Astcris G. li. Gray in Griffith's Anim. 



'KIiii/iI. Ins. pi. 1("2. f. 2. 

 Liiimas Nyx Hiibiier, Samml. cxol. Schm. Bd. i. pi. — ., 

 Ferz. bek. Schm. 23. p. 170. (Syrmatia N)x). 

 Guiana, Brazil. B. M. 



