434 ERYCINID.E. 



Genus XV. CYRENIA. 



Cyeenia Westwood MS. 



Body very robust : wings black, spotted with white and red ; fore wings triangular ; hind wings oval. 

 Head small, thickly clothed ■R'ith short hairs, forming a truncated tuft beneath the antennse. 



Eyes moderate-sized, thickly clothed with fine hairs. 



A7ite7i7i(e about two thirds of the length of the fore wings, slender, not annulated with white ; terminated by an 

 elongated slender club, pointed at the tip. 



Labial Palpi small, obliquely porrected ; the tip visible beyond the hairs of the face, and elevated to about one 

 third of the height of the eye. 

 Thorax very robust, finely hairy, especially behind. 



Fore Wings nearly triangular. Costa nearly straight, except at the tip, which is curved ; apex acute. Apical 

 margin three fourths of the length of the costal, entire, slightly convex. Inner margin nearly straight, three 

 fourths of the length of the apical. Veins arranged as in Necyria and Lyropteryx ; the second branch of the 

 postcostal vein arising, however, nearer the extremity of the discoidal cell, and the middle and lower disco- 

 cellulars of nearly equal length, and oblique ; the cell not extending more than two fifths of the length of the 

 wings. 



Hind Wijigs elongate-ovate. Costal margin well arched. Outer margin produced and rounded, entire, Avith a 

 very slight emargination at the extremity of the discoidal vein. Veins arranged as in the two preceding 

 genera ; the upper disco-cellular vein being oblique, and the lower one transverse. 



Fore Legs of the males very densely clothed with long soft hairs. 



Hind Legs rather short, hairy beneath. Tibia and tarsi finely spined beneath. Claws minute. 

 Abdomen small, conical. 



The insect which is the type of the present genus agrees tolerably well with Necyria and Lyropteryx in the arrangement of its 

 wing veins, and generally robust character ; but the hairy eyes, longer palpi, and elongate-oval form of the hind wings, as well as the 

 style of its colouring, prevent its association with either of those genera. The base of the wings, altliough of a dark colour, exhibits 

 various still darker transverse fascise ; whilst the contr.ast of the pure white and blood-red spots (es])ecially on the under side, where the 

 black ground colour of the wings lias a purple tinge) renders this a very conspicuous butterfly. As in several of the nearly allied genera, 

 the hind wings have a longitudinal brush of hairs between the submedian and median veins. 



CYRENIA. 



1. Cvii. Martia. 



Cyrenia Martia Westw. n. sp. *; Doubt, Weslw. Sj HewHs. 

 Gen. D. Lep. pi. 12. f. '2. 

 River Amazon. Mus. Bates. 



* C. alis supra nigris, anticis basi griseo-nigris, strigis duabus undulatis nigris, macula magna ovali media alba : posticis nigris, macula minori pone medium 

 alba, altera versus medium costse tertiaque versus apicem abdominis sanguineis ; alis subtus concoloribus, posiicis cyaneo-nigris puuctis nonnuUis basalibus 

 transversis nigris, macula alba majori rotundata strigaque tenui abbreviata versus angulum analem albis. Expans. alar, antic, unc. IJ. 



